For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.