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Armed with a list of 161 Dean households in his assigned section of Nashua, Schmidt’s first job is to stand near the booths and listen as voters give their names to the attendants. After checking the names against the list, Schmidt and the other volunteers plan to go directly to the homes of any who haven’t voted yet, helping to arrange for rides if needed...
...would think that all elections are about electability, the tension between whom you like and whom you think can win. But listen closely to what voters are saying, and you find that electability is a lazy word to cover all the deeper things they watch and listen for. Hearing that people want to vote for the candidate they think can win doesn't tell you anything unless you know what they think makes a winner. Is it the guy who looks most like a President or who knows the most, or the one they just like the best...
...brought comfort. Even when Kerry was doing badly, says Gephardt campaign manager Steve Murphy, "he always had great favorability ratings. They were always better than Dean's. He just never really connected until the end. He shed some aloofness, and he started answering questions, and he started to listen. He just got better." His height and bearing and senatorial stature make it easy to imagine him wearing White House cufflinks on his Turnbull & Asser shirts. And in the end he was a safe haven for spooked Dean voters who had had a near-death experience. "It was a process...
...Listen to the far less experienced Edwards, and it seems to be an advantage that he has not served in the Senate long enough to have been shaped by it. He pulls in voters by appearing more like an outsider than the other Senators, but more in tune with how Washington actually works than the other renegades. That still leaves him with a problem Clark and Kerry do not have: a relative lack of national-security experience that in these dangerous times could be disqualifying with some voters...
...value of dialogue, stressed by Iranian President Mohammed Khatami in his plenary speech, was on everyone's lips. But an open dialogue needs two parties. From European and Arab political leaders, there was still the sense that it's the Americans who need to do the listening. But European and Arab leaders need to listen, too. The U.S. has not adopted a role as guarantor of international security because it has a dream of empire, but because it was convinced by the Sept. 11 attacks that the only way to handle new threats is to meet them head-on. There...