Word: effecting
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There is a dangerous misconception, held among disaffected voters, that political issues are too distant from everyday life. On the contrary, these Massachusetts Ballot Questions will effect an immediate and direct impact to the community in which we live. At the very least, we urge the people of this state to head the polls and cast an educated vote. Only then can we consider this exercise in democratic self-governance a success...
...arrest is expected to have a negligible effect on the election, but Gore has used Bush's Social Security gaffe--which Bush aides have defended as being taken out of context--to question Bush's experience and credibility...
...IMPACT: Nearly everyone gets a tax cut - particularly the wealthiest third of taxpayers. The long-term effect is cloudy: Bush argues that his cuts will encourage the economy to keep growing, but the cuts could lead to inflation, and if things turn sour, ballooning deficits could return. And Congress is currently spending a fifth of the surplus...
...name is David Clark. I'm on the town council, and I'm running for state legislature." Then Clark locks eyes with his quarry. "I'm running as a Maine Clean Election candidate. I'm not asking for money; I'm asking for your vote." That makes Clark, in effect, a lab rat in a national experiment. He's one of 116 legislative candidates in Maine running with funds given under the state's Clean Elections Act. Passed by voters four years ago, it offers full public financing to state office seekers who eschew the smarmy scramble for campaign funds...
...media has come to depend on the "Oppo" research for material. Traditionally, newspaper journalists and TV producers have conducted independent research of charges made by a campaign. That has now dwindled, both due to news organizations being more and more stretched and because the media believes that the backfire effect on the campaigns would be far too devastating if the information provided were wrong...