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...least initially, will likely strengthen the two-party system, because it will decrease the chances of a third-party spoiler. So politicians have little excuse not to push for it. More serious concerns involve educating voters about the ranking system and refitting (or replacing) older punch-card and pull-lever voting technologies. But asking voters to rank candidates in their order of preference is hardly an overwhelmingly unreasonable (or confusing) request, and the proliferation of electronic voting machines increases the prospects for widespread IRV elections. Indeed, IRV voting has been successfully implemented for elections in several spheres, including Republican congressional...
...Cornell loss was a disappointing one indeed, as the Big Red used the victory to pull even with Harvard into a tie for first place in the Ivy League...
...made errors at times when we had started to pull close to them,” Gould said. “Then it was hard to come back from that, and we let them get runs off our mistakes...
...three days, Stopsinclair.org raised enough for full-page newspaper ads opposing Sinclair in four swing-state markets. Burger King announced it would pull ads from Sinclair stations, and $90 million was wiped off the value of Sinclair shares, though the stock rebounded after Sinclair altered its broadcast. Sinclair officials claim opponents hurt their own cause. "They turned what would have been a relatively minor story in 25% of the country into a much larger story in 100% of the country," says Barry Faber, vice president and general counsel at Sinclair. "If they had just let us do the show...
...elected Iraqi government in the face of a ruthless insurgency--won't bend to a quick fix. Both Kerry and Bush argue that a rapid turnover of combat duties to Iraqis would provide relief to U.S. troops, but that objective may take years to achieve. Though Kerry hopes to pull U.S. forces out by the end of his first term, the danger that Iraq could descend into terrorism-torn anarchy and sectarian strife means that the U.S. will maintain its current presence of 138,000 troops for the foreseeable future...