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What the tea leaves say about turnout in California

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19981021
Author:Martin F. Nolan, Globe Staff

SAN FRANCISCO - Henry Adams never walked a precinct nor took a poll, but he understood voter turnout. The scion of presidents grew up in pre-Civil War Massachusetts amid Federalist frenzy, Whig anger, and the stirrings of the Know-Nothing Party. In "The Education of Henry Adams," he wrote: "Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

In 1998, hatred still motivates. Millions of Republicans, prescandal or postscandal, despise President Clinton. Millions of Democrats hate his court-appointed pursuer, Kenneth Starr. On Nov. 3, one ...

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