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...previous election cycles. In Ohio counties with major universities, the number of new registrants has either doubled, or almost doubled. In Iowa, the Des Moines Register reports that 81,000 new voters have registered since the beginning of the year, many through the New Voters Project (NVP), a non-partisan group aiming to boost youth turnout. The efforts of NVP extend beyond just Iowa; in Wisconsin the group has registered 124,000 18 to 25 year olds. Even in Florida, where the difficulties of new registration have been the subject of intense inquiry, evidence suggests there has been a significant...
...dangerous," said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, "for the Vice President to in effect threaten the American people, to be part of instilling fear into our country." John Edwards declared that "Dick Cheney's scare tactics crossed the line" because "protecting America from vicious terrorists" is not a partisan issue...
...this sense, Grierson, who believed in the use of “cinema as a pulpit,” is something of an ally of Moore, Greenwald, and their fellow partisan filmmakers. They, too, hold interpretation—the conclusions drawn by viewers—to be primary. But do these political films meet Grierson’s threshold test of “profound” interpretation? Do viewers of partisan films draw deep conclusions, or even alter in any way the convictions they held when they entered the theater...
...according to Stone, the idea driving the movie was always to remain as non-partisan as possible...
...kind of down the middle with our personal political affiliation,” he says. “We tried to do the honest thing, the more emotionally and intellectually honest thing—that most people, unless you’re just a complete rabid partisan, [have had] mixed feelings about where America’s place is in the world in the last three years...