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...same election also revealed that polls can be wrong. In the lead-up to the vote, Kinnock’s Labour Party was running level or slightly ahead in the polls. On Election Day itself the party was defeated by more than seven percent in the popular vote. Research done afterwards suggested that significant numbers of people who voted Conservative felt, in the last few days, that Kinnock could not be trusted but had been too ashamed to tell pollsters. The Obama campaign is no doubt aware of this historical lesson...
...brutal killings carried out in its name. But to a certain extent we all missed another, crucial part of the election story. Such was the despair amongst Palestinians at the poor leadership of Yasser Arafat and his officials over the previous decade that they were prepared to vote for Hamas in large numbers, despite the consequences...
...Election Day nears, all this provides some context for foreign journalists as we try to scythe our way through the forests of spin and unanswered questions which surround any modern election campaign. Are the polls right? How big a factor is race? What impact could a huge youth vote have...
...innocuous enough, but “Hot?” “Crowded?” I turn nervously to the back flap. There’s Friedman, his moustache a hairy smear across his upper lip. Dude looks like a 70s swinger. DECLARE YOURSELF: SPEAK, CONNECT, ACT, VOTE by Declare Yourself This book, aimed at teenagers, includes essays by 50 people on the importance of democratic participation. Apparently, Tyra Banks contributed. Now this next bit isn’t quite related to the book, but here is how Ms. Banks revealed her biggest beauty secret...
...Four years ago, a significant portion of the American population believed that two social issues—abortion rights and the rights of same-sex couples to wed—were sufficiently important to the country’s future that they turned out to vote in record numbers. While we wish, like many sensible Americans, that these two issues were not so divisive in the political arena, we believe that Senator Obama and his campaign have largely transcended what has been thus far an utterly pointless, divisive, and unnecessary social divide...