Word: elect
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...would look at the morally fascinating Nader Temptation - the dilemma of those who must decide whether to preserve their indignant purity by voting for Ralph Nader, thereby helping to elect George Bush, or whether to go with the imperfect but serviceable vehicle of their principles, Al Gore. A classic bind, with psychological roots in the Glorious Lost Cause mentality - virtue going down in flames, uncompromised...
...This is a classic case of being outspent," says Wayne County executive Ed McNamara, a Democrat. "If you get the spin doctors going, you can elect Dracula to heaven." Stabenow is looking for rescue from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which is pouring in money to put her advertising outlays in line with Abraham's. "Here's all we know," says Jim Jordan, the Democratic Senate-campaign political director. "After millions of dollars, Abraham still hasn't reached 50% in the polls. The voters of Michigan are looking for an alternative." Maybe so. But whether Stabenow is the alternative they...
...personal friend of the congressional concrete king, Representative Bud Shuster. But Washington's not so venal that it doesn't eventually uncover the Eppards and their machinations. And it's not too small to engage in real fights, the kind that play to our larger instincts, the ones we elect our representatives to have. Love's fine, but let's hear it for bickering...
About 20 members of the Harvard chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) gathered Wednesday evening to elect their new leadership for this year...
...self-appointed pundits. What price truth, freedom and the American way? I reckon about $160 (plus shipping and handling) should do it - and that's the amount I invested in a new computer program that promises to sort the wheat from the chaff, the pretender from the president-elect - the Bush from the Gore (or vice versa...