Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Eligible voter participation in presidential elections fell below half for the first time, to 49 percent in the 1996 race, according to the non-partisan Committee for the Study of the American Electorate (CSAE). And these same statistics reveal the emerging participation of a voting class: distinguishable ethnically, regionally and socioeconomically from the non-voters to a degree that makes difference between voting Democrats and Republicans nearly indistinguishable...
...know the kids will be all right. These days our younger daughter sports a new T shirt, courtesy of Grandma, that reads, SOMEDAY A WOMAN WILL BE PRESIDENT! Her big sister trades partisan insults with other sixth-graders, who already identify themselves as Republicans or Democrats. And their two-year-old brother has actually been spotted watching C-SPAN. Maybe it's because Dad left the TV on, but hey, it's a start...
...think of Pierre Trudeau as the first big-time postmodern politician. He loved to repudiate conventional partisan ideologies, and if in the end that served his partisan goals, well, there would be just the little Gallic upturn at the corners of his mouth. He had a near-perfect understanding of the possible uses of celebrity. With a little jacknife off the low board here if a photographer was positioned right, a lively judo tussle there (again, photographers were present), a rose in his buttonhole, a pretty woman on his arm, he knifed through dowdy Canadian politics like the classy skier...
...just charged rhetoric. In the last two years, Congress has been remarkably concerned with the welfare of businesses and employers, and has repeatedly attempted to limit access to justice for the poor and disadvantaged. Three bills stand out as examples of how this past Congress--and specifically the more partisan House of Representatives--has gone out of its way to hand out judicial plums to those who need them least, and to deny the protection of the courts to those with most to fear...
...know the kids will be all right. These days our younger daughter sports a new T-shirt, courtesy of Grandma, that reads, SOMEDAY A WOMAN WILL BE PRESIDENT! Her big sister trades partisan insults with other sixth graders, who already identify themselves as Republicans or Democrats. And their two-year-old brother has actually been spotted watching C-SPAN. Maybe it's because Dad left the TV on, but hey, it's a start...