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...That sentiment was echoed by Miller, the Harvard student working for Tsongas...
What if they gave an election and nobody ran? California enacted term limitations in 1990 amid strong sentiment that the longer politicians are in office, the less responsive they are to constituents' concerns. Some people are looking to place the same sort of limits on the U.S. Congress. The California law restricts state assemblymen to three terms and state senators to two terms, and it slashed legislative budgets 38%. This year, in the first election cycle under the new rules, party regulars complain that they are having trouble getting qualified people to stand for election. As one state legislator...
While a superficial analysis could equate the Eisenhower "Eastern Establishment" coalition of 1952 to the Bush supporters of 1988/92, there is more to the story. Part of the Eisenhower coalition included a group that grew dissatisfied during the early 1960s, then openly revolted against anti-Vietnam sentiment and the Great Society...
James D. Wilkinson '65, director of the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and a former Lowell tutor, echoes this sentiment...
...Shulman strongly suggest that Americans think journalists should stay out of candidates' personal lives. By a tally of 70% to 25%, a sample of 1,000 adults said information about private behavior, including extramarital affairs, should be kept from voters out of respect for the candidate's privacy. The sentiment hardly varied -- it was 69% to 25% -- in the hypothetical case that a reporter happened on hard proof. While reporters have justified special probing of Clinton and, previously, Gary Hart by citing rumors about them, 73% of poll respondents said the same standards should apply to all candidates; only...