Word: elect
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Last week Kostunica was only a hopeful President-elect. While his supporters filled the streets shouting that Milosevic was finished, their nemesis still sat in his White Palace, as Belgrade dubs his official seat of power. He's used vote fraud, trumped-up crises and constitutional finagling to stay in power before. Serbs were finally brave enough to cast their votes against him. To get him out of his palace for good, they may have to take his power into their own hands...
...candidates run for the slots in a particular House, residents may still elect representatives by writing in names on the ballot...
...though he might not have entirely succeeded in convincing voters to elect him and not career politician Gore as president, Bush held his own during much of the debate, sounding well-versed on oil supply and education issues and energetically pushing his tax cut proposal...
...argument with some merit: The American electorate must be trusted to elect a president - so why not trust us to rip our collective gaze from the national pastime to the dry necessity of a debate? But while nobody in America wants to make debate avoidance a federal crime, there is surely something inherently embarrassing about living in a country where two major networks choose to ignore what can safely be called a major political event...
...democracy means anything to you--vicariously, intellectually, irrationally--you will know that the purpose of voting is never, and has never been, simply to elect...