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...Bush is a perfectly rational man on abortion," he notes, "but he thinks he can't afford to be. His only hope is for a very small turnout and enough godly folk to push him over. But the Democrats have two conservative Southern boys running, and they'll take back the South." Vidal is depressed, but his irrepressible humor -- never dormant long -- bubbles to the surface. "Ultimately it's a matter of style. What it comes down to is this: Do you spell Jennifer with a J or a G? That's a class division. As a populist...
Taxin also charged that members of the CCR gained control of the Law School Council last spring because of low voter turnout, that last year's candidates were members of far right and left parties, and that the "majority of students were thoroughly disgusted and turned against the process...
Because few seats were contested by serious challengers, voter turn out was low in Cambridge--where voter turnout usually reaches almost 50 percent. Only 37 percent of all Democrats and 25 percent of all Republicans showed up at the polls...
...think the turnout should be higher this timearound," Soren says. But she's not certain MTVdeserves exclusive credit: "I think it's onlytelevision when it comes down...
After a two-day general strike by millions of black workers last week, the A.N.C. and its allies in the trade unions and the Communist Party turned up the heat with marches in several cities. Most dramatic was the peaceful turnout in Pretoria, the heart of Afrikanerdom and the administrative capital of the country, where 70,000 marchers drew up in the park below President F.W. de Klerk's office and chanted, "De Klerk must go!" Said A.N.C. secretary- general Cyril Ramaphosa: "Next time, Mr. De Klerk, we are going to be inside...