Presidential Elections

Baloha: Tymoshenko, Yanukovych Preparing For Presidential Elections

Ukrainian News Agency - Agency news (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Presidential press service stated.

American presidential – elections a fraud and a farce !

Sri Lanka Guardian (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Talabani's veto 'veto' for the presidential election law

Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

7/23/08 *Talabani's veto "veto" for the presidential election law* Use President Jalal Talabani on Wednesday to veto the presidential veto to oppose the law of the new local council elections, one day after approval by the House of Representatives, thus restoring the law again to the...

Better Ballots

Truth Out (Free subscription) | yesterday

The notorious butterfly ballot that Palm Beach County, Florida, election officials used in the 2000 election is probably the most infamous of all election design snafus. It was one of many political, legal, and election administration missteps that plunged a presidential election into turmoil and set off a series of events that led to, among other things,...

Serious Implications of the Presidential Election in Nepal

"GroundReport (Free subscription) | yesterday

The election of the first Nepali president by the recently elected Constituent Assembly has become an epoch-making event in the political history of Nepal. This is something that the 99.9 percent Nepalis, who voted for the republican structure of the country, cannot differ from. A Nepali citizen was able to claim and win the position of the head of the state. This is the basic fact to note....

Let's look frankly at the Presidential election.

A Newt One (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Republican nominee [a] is pretty much well liked and he is running against an absolute lightweight [b] , who will be a economic and foreign policy disaster. In an ordinary election year, it would be a slam dunk. However, [c] this is no ordinary election year. An anti- Republican wave consumes America. Corruption and rising fuel prices are taking center stage. If the nominee does-against...

Iraq and the Presidential Election

Wash Park Prophet (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Iraqi government wants troops out of Iraq on a timeline similar to that of Presidential candidate Obama, a fact highlighted in Obama's visit to Iraq this week. It is hard to argue that a long term U.S. troop presence is appropriate when the Iraqi civilian government whose invitation we claim provides the legal basis for our presence in the country wants us to withdraw. Meanwhile, Iraqi provincial...

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Veterans, military service little issue in presidential vote

Reuters (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Ohio military veteran Robert Rigsby believes U.S. presidents need military experience. So does retired autoworker Mike Artz. But even as America wages two wars, neither man can decide whom to support in November's presidential election.

Azerbaijan: US Election Conference

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Michael J. Totten's Middle East Journal reports that it will be visiting Azerbaijan next month for a conference on the U.S. Presidential Election and locally related matters. The blog also solicits questions from its readers which can be put to senior government officials in the country as well as religious leaders and business executives.

NBC Luke Russert Presidential Election Special Correspondent

The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | yesterday

NBC is scouting Luke Russert, the son of late Meet The Press moderator Tim Russert, as a special correspondent for the 2009 presidential election coverage, according to the New York Post’s Page Six. Tim Russert died of a heart attack at the NBC bureau in Washington on June 13.

A model election

Free Exchange (Free subscription) | yesterday

IF THIS summer is any indication, November's American presidential election will be an exciting opportunity to test the latest political models. Not long ago, Justin Wolfers described a wager he'd made with political scientist Robert Erikson. Mr Erikson recently authored a paper with Christopher Wlezien analysing the predictive power of early polling. The authors' results indicated that...

Let’s Causus. ooVoo to Enable 6-Way Video Chats About the 2008 Presidential Race.

crayonCast & 93 Colors (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Whether you’re a political junkie or not, it’s difficult to deny that the 2008 Presidential Election will be one for the history books. OK — I suppose all presidential races make their way into the history books, but Obama vs McCain will be one of the hottest races that we’ve seen in a long time.Tapping [...]

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NBC Recruiting Luke Russert to Cover Presidential Election

Truemors (Free subscription) | yesterday

A month and a half after the death of political pundit extraordinaire Tim Russert, NBC still hasn’t quite regained its footing in the world of political campaign coverage, but could the addition of Tim’s son help the network’s shaky coverage? Page Six reports that NBC has put considerable efforts towards recruiting Luke Russert for its team of presidential election experts and commentators....

Yes I *am* a presidential candidate!

ByronCrawford.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

How in the world did Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente end up the Green Party candidates for this year's presidential election? Here's the two of them on Democracy Now! the other day. I might have more on this once I...

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Arab media: "Jews control US elections"

Dhimmi Watch (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Conspiracy paranoia update. "'Jews control US elections,'" by Stephanie Rubenstein in the Jerusalem Post, July 23 (thanks to all who sent this in): Increasing numbers of anti-Semitic cartoons depicting US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama have surfaced throughout...