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...that an illegitimate winner may prevail; 56% are ready to abolish the Electoral College. "A certain amount of shenanigans is standard. But it'd be really nice to know who the next President is by Thanksgiving," says Ted Jelen, chairman of the political-science department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "I just don't see a gracious concession happening this time. This could get awfully ugly." Especially if institutions that are basically built on trust are infected with a sense that they don't work anymore. Then the necessary healing after any election gets only harder...
Democrats cried foul in Nevada when a former employee of Sproul & Associates, hired by the Republican Party to gather voter-registration forms, claimed that those filled out by Democrats were being torn up. In Pennsylvania Democrats are so deeply suspicious of Republican tactics that they have kept secret the location of the Election Day staging grounds for a 527 organization called America Coming Together, supposedly because they fear that Republicans would slash their tires if they knew where it was. In Jefferson County, Colo., someone has been calling voters and warning them that it's too late to fill...
...Nevada isn't the only state fighting back. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, irked by Schwarzenegger's Boston ad, has countered with billboards in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego in which he mimics the Governor's arms-folded pose but wears a dress shirt and tie. The slogan: SMALLER MUSCLES BUT LOWER TAXES! MASSACHUSETTS MEANS BUSINESS. Says Romney: "I don't want to arm wrestle, but Governor Schwarzenegger upped the ante." Now, after vetoing a state minimum-wage hike, he's about to up it some more. California's billboard campaign will expand in the next few weeks...
...recent immigrants who speak primarily Spanish and are open to being romanced by either party. The nation's largest minority group is expected to send 7 million to 8 million citizens to the polls, and even small shifts in the sizable Hispanic communities in hotly contested Florida, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado could have a crucial effect on the outcomes there...
...play (having its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theater, directed by Robert Falls) takes place in a hotel on the trouble-plagued Nevada set. The female star (here named Kitty) is too zonked on drugs to make it to work one day, sending the producer, the director and assorted crew members into crisis mode. Should they try to rouse her and see if they can struggle through another day? Give her a week off to see whether she can pull herself together? Or simply shut down the picture, dealing what could be a fatal blow to her film career...