Word: splintering
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...abolition of state-by-state, winner-take-all electoral votes would speed the disintegration of the already weakened two-party system. It would encourage single-issue ideologues and eccentric millionaires to jump into presidential contests. The multiplication of splinter parties would make it hard for major-party candidates to win popular-vote majorities. Cumulating votes from state to state, they could force a runoff if no candidate got more than 40% of the vote--and then could extract concessions from the major parties. The prospect of double national elections could be alarming to a bored and weary electorate, especially when...
...abolition of state-by-state, winner-take-all electoral votes would speed the disintegration of the already weakened two-party system. It would encourage single-issue ideologues and eccentric millionaires to jump into presidential contests. The multiplication of splinter parties would make it hard for major-party candidates to win popular-vote majorities. Cumulating votes from state to state, they could force a runoff if no candidate got more than 40 percent of the vote - and then could extract concessions from the major parties. The prospect of double national elections could be alarming to a bored and weary electorate, especially...
...ignoring entreaties from former compatriots scared out of the Nader camp by the specter of a Bush presidency. Gloria Steinem and Melissa Etheridge, once Nader supporters, reversed course in the last weeks before the election, and campaigned mightily for Gore. And while their efforts, as well as those of splinter groups like Nader's Raiders for Gore, may have kept Nader from the magic 5 percent mark, many Green party idealists proved resolute...
...then the opposition was morphing from inchoate splinter groups into something that looks like a mainstream coalition. In July 1999, some 40 environmentalists, consumer advocates and organic-food activists met in Bolinas, Calif., to map a national campaign. Rather than endorse the total ban on genetically modified foods that Greenpeace was pushing, says Wendy Wendlandt, political director of the state Public Interest Research Groups, "it was more practical to call for a moratorium until the stuff is safety tested and labeled, and companies are held responsible for any harmful effects...
...that Iran, rather than Libya, was the power behind the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing. In fact, Behbahani claims to have been personally involved in supervising the operation, alleging that it was carried out by Libyan operatives subcontracted for the job in conjunction with members of a Syrian-based Palestinian splinter group headed by super-terrorist Ahmed Jibril...