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Tuesday, November 7, 2006 - 3

The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Tuesday, November 7. 2006 - 3


WHERE TO VOTE

NEWS BRIEFS
WASHINGTON
Voters could reverse
Gingrich-led GOP
revolution of 1994
A half-dozen Republican con-
gressmen ushered into office in the
1994 GOP tidal wave that tossed
Democrats from power may be
swept out today, casualties of a
Democratic surge fueled by voter
anger over the Iraq war.
On the eve of the midterm elec-
tions, Republicans are hoping their
acclaimed get-out-the-vote opera-
tion will ensure majority control.
But some say privately they have a
slim chance of retaining the House
after a grueling campaign centered
on turmoil in Iraq, President Bush's
sagging approval numbers, politi-
cal scandals and corruption inves-
tigations.
Sidelined for 12 years, Demo-
crats appear poised to win the
House in a shift that likely would
elevate Democratic Rep. Nancy
Pelosi of California to speaker, the
nation's first woman to hold that
office, and herald in at least two
years of Democratic rule.
WASHINGTON
Dems assail GOP;
Bush snubbed by
Fla. Republican
On the eve of midterm elec-
tions, Democrats criticized
Republicans as stewards of a stale
status quo while President Bush
declared, "we're closing strong"
in a final drive to preserve GOP
control of Congress.
"They cantrun anything right,"
countered former President Clin-
ton, taunting Republicans about
the war in Iraq, the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina and even the
scandal involving the House page
program that complicated GOP
efforts to win two more years in
power.
Bush campaigned yesterday
from Florida to Arkansas and
Texas. But the day brought one
more reminder of his poor stand-
ing in the polls when Republican
gubernatorial candidate Charlie
Crist skipped the presidential
rally in Pensacola, Fla., to make
a speech of his own hundreds of
miles away.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua
Marxist appears
to have captured
presidency
Daniel Ortega, the revolution-
ary Marxist who battled a U.S.-
backed Contra insurgency in the
1980s, was closing in on Nica-
ragua's presidency, appearing
yesterday to have defeated four
opponents with promises that he
was a changed man.
Electoral officials had yet to
release final results from Sunday's
vote, but preliminary results and
two of the country's top electoral

watchdog groups all gave Ortega
about 40 percent of the vote.
ORLANDO, Fla.
Fire hits Orlando's
Gatorland; four
animals likely dead
A fire early yesterday destroyed
a section of the venerable Gatorland
tourist attraction, likely killing four
animals. Among the charred areas
was its main entrance, a huge con-
crete alligator mouth.
The blaze, reported at 5:55
a.m., badly damaged the gift shop,
entrance and ticket booth.
Gatorland's alligators were
believed to have hidden safely in a
lake, but the fire may have claimed
two crocodiles and two 8-foot
pythons kept in a pen near the gift
shop, said Tim Williams, the park's
director of media production.
-Compiled from
Daily wire reports

PROP 5
From page 1
University President Mary Sue
Coleman has also come out against
the proposal, saying it is bad public
policy.
Cynthia Wilbanks, the Universi-
ty's vice president for government
relations, said earmarking funds
for education restricts the ability of
the Legislature to address unfore-
seen expenses.
"In general, it is not a great idea
to restrict the flexibility of the Leg-
islature to respond to specific issues
as they arise on a yearly basis,"
Wilbanks said.
Opponents have charged the
proposal may harm school funding
in the end. They say the Legislature
may refuse to raise funding above
5 percent and cite the proposal as
justification. But K-16 Coalition
spokesman Ken Macgregor said

the proposal would not cap state
appropriations to schools.
"This is a floor, not a ceiling," he
said.
Macgregor said the state has
plenty of revenue available from
tax expenditures to come up with
the necessary funds for the propos-
al without raising taxes or cutting
essential programs.
Courant disagreed.
"On the state budget, there will
be a huge squeeze that will be
forced to come from increased
taxes or reduced expenditures in
other areas,' he said.
Former University President
James Duderstadt said the proposal
would cripple the state budget in
the longrun, eventually having a
negative impact on K-12 education.
He said a ballot initiative is not
the appropriate solution to state
education funding problems.
The PresidentssCouncil withdrew
its support from the K-16 Coalition

earlier this year, and is now offi-
cially neutral on Proposal 5.
Macgregor said that if the pro-
posal passes it will take pressure
off of universities to raise tuition.
University spokeswoman Julie
Peterson said the push for Propos-
al 5 is likely a response to cuts in
state education funding over recent
years. Between 2002 and 2005,
the state cut appropriations by 13.7
percent.
Since 1960, state funding has
gone from composing 77 percent
of the University's general fund to
only 25 percent.
In the latest polls available, the
fate of Proposal 5 was still too
close to call as of last night.
Forty-three percent of the 600
voters polled were in favor of the
proposal while 39 percent were
against it, according to an EPIC/
MRA poll released last night. The
poll has a margin of error of plus or
minus 3 percent.

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LOCATION
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Michigan Union
Community High School
Community High School
Northside School
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Family Housing Comm Center
Mary Markey Hall
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East Quad
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Sooth Quad
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Unversity Coliseum
Pioneer High School
Ann ArborDistrictLibrary
Bach School


ADDRESS
530 State St.
s30 State St.
401N. Division St.
4013N. Division St.
912 Barton Drive
1931Duffield
1000 Mcintyre Drive.
tOSSWashington Heights
608 S. University Ave.
701 E University Ave.
701tE.Univrsity Ave.
225ttE. Stadium Blvd.
60000. Madison St.
926 Mary St.
P ith Ave. & H iSt
6001W. Stadium td.
343 S. ifth Ave.
6000W. Jefferson St.


INTERPRETING THE RESULTSEE:
Wednesday, November 8, 3:30 pm
Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
Annenberg Auditorium, Room 1120
735 South State Street " Ann Arbor, MI
Free and open to the public.
Reception to follow.
PANELISTS
The Honorable John D. Dingell,
U.S. House of Representatives
Rusty Hills, Lecturer in Public Policy,
Communications Director for Attorney General Mike Cox
Michael Traugoit, Professor of Communication Studies and Research
Professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
Moderator: Elisabeth R. Gerber, Professor of Public Policy

DeVos campaign manager
GOVERNOR Greg McNeilly sent an e-mail to
From page 1 supporters early Sunday urging
them to ignore the polls that show
DeVos was scheduled to make DeVos trailing and keep up their
his last stop at 10:15 tonight in get-out-the-vote efforts.
Sterling Heights. He stopped at Despite low expectations for
Domino's Farms in Ann Arbor Republicans statewide and nation-
this afternoon. ally, Rob Scott, chair of the Uni-
Over the weekend, former versity's chapter of the College
President Bill Clinton appeared Republicans, was optimistic. He
at a Granholm rally in Detroit, said he believes his party will keep
while former New York City control of Congress and capture
Mayor Rudy Giuliani joined the Michigan governor's mansion
DeVos at events in Tyler, Monroe, and Senate seat.
Royal Oak and Sterling Heights. "The last-ditch efforts of the
Every year, campaign workers Republican Party are probably
worry that favorable polls will being overlooked in some of these
make their supporters and volun- polling numbers," he said. "In
teers complacent, exposing their general, Republican voters tend to
candidate to a possibly devastat- have very different voting charac-
ing last-minute surge from a bet- teristics than Democratic voters,
ter-motivated opponent. and one of those characteristics is
Granholm, hoarse from months not responding well to polls."
of campaigning, was enthusiastic Washtenaw County Clerk Larry
about her chances, but reminded the Kestenbaum said he expects high-
crowd they still had work to do. er turnout in Ann Arbor today
"(Undecided voters) need than in 2004 based on the number
someone to persuade them," she of absentee ballot requests he has
said. "And that is your job." received.

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Number of states using elec-
tronic voting machines for
today's elections in an attempt
to avoid the hanging-chad
debacle of the 2000 election.
Eighteen of those states will
use machines that generate
paper copies, just in case.
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