Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...reality is that only a small minority of Americans actually participate in the primary selection process, as was so clearly demonstrated by yesterday's elections. According to Professor David King of the Kennedy School of Government, in 1966, 34 percent of eligible voters voted in primary elections. In 1988 the numbers had dropped to 17 percent of eligible voters. And in case you thought that primaries allow the common man a voice, King says that political moderates are staying away from the polls...
...Supreme Judicial Court reinstated Robinson, but not before he spent more than $100,000 on the entire signature-gathering and legal process...
...glad I did it. I feel a little odd. A lot of people might have thought it was silly that I was filing charges," she said. "I thought it was very important to go through with the process. I did the right thing...
...have done it. He sends the same message (I love my wife) by his feeling talk about Laura and about the birth of his twin daughters. Presumably Oprah's huge female audience felt some sympathetic vibration on that score. The question is whether it does not demean the entire process to have all of this attention paid to the state of a candidate's marriage. We have Bill Clinton to thank for that - that, and a certain deepening fatuousness in the American political process...
...Public opinion polls serve private interests, paid for by corporate advertisers and media corporations. In fact, the commission itself is funded by companies like Anheuser-Busch and AT&T. With the debates so corporately controlled, the true democratic process hasn't a chance. But attention, debate sponsors: Debates involving candidates outside the two major parties earn significantly higher ratings than debates between the two major candidates...