ON NOVEMBER 29, THE DE FACTO AUTHORITIES in Honduras held a blatantly fraudulent election - complete with state violence against dissidents in the run-up to the voting, ballot irregularities, and manufactured turnout numbers.1 Sadly, some countries are recognizing these elections, giving unwarranted legitimacy to former de facto president Roberto Micheletti and the other coup leaders who took power in June.2 The mainstream news coverage has been a significant factor in portraying the Honduran election as a peaceful, legitimate exercise in democracy By ignoring the abuses and corruption of the coup leaders before and during the election, the U.S. media in particular became complicit in thwarting Honduran democracy. Nor did many outlets report that during the coup, the plane carrying the...
Thomas Frank asserts that the Republican Party built a winning coalition in recent elections by convincing white working-class voters to cast their ballots on the basis of cultural wedge issues. Larry Bartels, conversely, argues that economic issues remain paramount to white working-class voters. The authors contend that the white working class is a more diverse bloc than both Frank's and Bartels's analyses suggest. Using data from the 2004 National Election Pool, their results show that there are significant political differences between white working-class voters in union households and those in nonunion households.
This study is concerned primarily with a systematic analysis of Lebanon's most recent election, its characteristics and results. The methodology or research procedure that is utilized is both descriptive and analytical. Following a brief discussion of Lebanon's major political developments in relation to the preparations for elections, Part One concentrates on the elections in each of the country's five provinces, the degree of competitiveness and the extent of voter participation within each. Part Two provides a detailed description of the process of elite recruitment and replacement. The final part examines the impact of these elections in a time of political transition, and more specifically provides a view of the political changes underway in Lebanon.
The "left wing of the possible" takes a different shape in each state. In Massachusetts it's the Mass Alliance which by itself and together with member groups like Neighbor to Neighbor and Boston DSA has been successfully moving the Massachusetts State Legislature in a more progressive direction. Georgia Hollister Isman, political director of the Mass Alliance, writes in the January 2007 issue of Boston DSA's Yankee Radical that in last fall's elections for state legislature, every retiring progressive was replaced by a progressive, incumbents who stuck their necks out for economic justice were reelected even in allegedly conservative districts, and a few new champions of civil rights and economic justice took seats for the first time. DSAers around the country followed the story of the...
Large majorities of those who remained Republican between 2004 and 2008 favor the Republican position on these issues, but the opinions of those in the independent category are much closer to the opinions of stable Republicans than to the Democratic side. [...] the battering the Republicans experienced in 2006-2008 was much more a result of dissatisfaction with the performance of the Bush administration than an indication of a policy realignment in the electorate.
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