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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Because no one can objectively answer the question "Who is most qualified?" voters in any election must consider other factors beyond sterile qualifications. They may consider personality and affability and often, heaven forbid, give more favorable consideration to their friends...
...percent saw him in an unfavorable light. His graceful exit last week has apparently softened more than a few hearts - particularly among Republican voters, according to the poll - and has perhaps left a few doors open for his return to the national stage in four years. A final Gallup question asked, "If the 2004 presidential election were held today, whom would you vote for: Bush or Gore?" Gore took the race by 9 percentage points; 50 to 41 percent. Too little, too late, perhaps. But in Washington, the next election is always just around the corner...
...pontifex maximus of African America. He makes the rounds of the media, dispensing what is presumed to be the outrage of all blacks at what is presumed to be their disenfranchisement. He was the leadoff voice in an op-ed symposium in the Sunday New York Times on the question, "Can Bush Mend His Party's Rift With Black America...
...maintain, they argue, a strategy that denies the people their popularly elected president? (In this case, that would be Al Gore, who won November's election by about 330,000 votes but lost in the electoral count 271-267). The quick answer to that question? Habit and vested interests...
...each senator and one for each representative. The problem in that calculation lies in the fact that the population of New York State is more than 36 times the population of Wyoming - so why doesn't the Empire State cast 108 electoral votes? That's exactly the question many of those representing thinly populated states don't want...