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...begun to connect water fears to global warming, a bad sign for Howard, whose residence has been picketed by protesters dressed as polar bears. A recent poll of voters in several closely contested seats found that 73% said climate change would have a "strong influence" on the way they vote. "The water shortages have really rocketed climate change to a significant issue in people's minds," says John Connor, chief executive of Australia's Climate Institute, a green lobbying group...
...that's not why the Republicans blocked the bill, which cruised through the Senate Agriculture Committee without a dissenting vote. They blocked it because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid refused to let them bog down the floor debate with scores of unrelated amendments designed to box Democrats into uncomfortable votes on issues like immigration and the alternative minimum tax. Most Senate Republicans like the farm bill just fine - Richard Lugar of Indiana is an honorable exception - but not as much as they like attacking the do-nothing Democratic Congress. They needed 40 votes to block Reid's effort to shut...
...over 18,000 doors, a sizeable number considering only about 10,000 voters showed up to the polls. Most interestingly, they ran TV ads on cable channels—for the first time in local electoral history—chanting the cheesy-but-catchy team slogan: “Vote Line A All The Way”—a reference to their party’s place on the ballot...
...Moreover, the Democrats didn’t run as a team, but as a group of mayoral candidates. Because the highest vote-winner of the majority party is traditionally named mayor, many voters, the Journal Inquirer reports, appear to have voted for only one of the Democratic candidates, instead of all six of them, to improve his or her chance of becoming mayor. Unfortunately for the Democrats, this so-called “bullet voting” cost them the election...
...primary schoolers, which serves one of the most deprived sections of Nottingham. Charged with rejuvenating the state-run school, where "children come in well below national averages," Chambers has taken the innovative approach of organizing all subjects around a single theme, which the students themselves select by simple vote. "We were in a situation where we could take that risk," Chambers says. Past semesters have been centered on Africa, the Titanic and chocolate. This semester, students were given the stipulation that the organizing principle would be a book, and Harry Potter edged out The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe...