One week before a close election, Superstorm Sandy has confounded the presidential race, halted early voting in many areas and led some to ponder whether the election might even be postponed. It could take days to restore electricity to more than 8 million homes and businesses that lost power when the storm pummeled the East Coast – leading experts to question whether the election can be pu…
…t whether the election will be cancelled or rigged, he adds. Egypt's presidential poll results have been delayed by the election authorities, raising further tension across the country Meanwhile, 84-year-old Hosni Mubarak remains in critical condition at an army hospital in Cairo. He is said to have had a series of strokes and to be on a life-support machine, but there has been no official wo…
e Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, seems a logical conclusion of the bitter partisan paralysis here and the bottom-feeding campaign,” wrote New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Tuesday. 8. Why the obsession with “folks”? “Folks here in Iowa understand this – you cannot grow this economy from the top down”- Barack Obama, 17 October. “I know that a lot of folks are struggling” –…
…Pacs and other outside groups – at least $750 million Source: Center for Responsive Politics Per person spending • US – $18 per person on federal elections in 2012 (projected) • UK – 80 cents per person in 2010 general election • Canada – $8 per person in 2011 general election …
…o-Ahmed Shafiq demonstration took place on Saturday in the Nasser City neighborhood of Cairo. “When we decided to take to the streets, we’re not just one, two or three million, we’re 80 million. The only difference is that we’re waiting for the military council to give its final word,” one Shafiq supporter, Doaa, told the Reuters news agency. Hundreds of supporters he…
ical score-settling” had ended. On Friday, Ahmed Shafiq promised to “address chaos and return stability”. He came second in last month’s first round, in which turnout among the 52 million eligible voters was only 46%. Official results gave Mohammed Mursi 24.8% and Ahmed Shafiq 23.7%. Polling stations are due to open on Saturday and Sunday at 08:00 and close at 19:00, but vo…
pen question but the Romney campaign thinks so. “What’s going on here is when you have intensity and momentum,” said the Romney adviser. “You ask voters who they’re voting for and they say 48, 47 points Obama. And then you look at the people who are eight, nine,10 on the intensity scale, Republicans have a high single digits to low double digits advantage. “That’s what you see in…
times. Brendan J. Doherty, who has compiled statistics about presidential travel and fundraising going back to President Jimmy Carter in 1977, found that Barack Obama had held 104 fundraisers by March 6th this year, compared to 94 held by Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined. Since then, Barack Obama has held another 20 fundraisers, brin…
…putting in 14-hour days in an effort to deliver the state for Barack Obama. Average of national opinion polls shows Barack Obama heading into election day with a single-point lead among likely voters, 49% to 48%. Mitt Romney remains favored among whites, older people and evangelical Christians; Barack Obama among women, non-whites and young adults. In the crucial swing state of Ohio, a RealClearPo…
mpaign definitely goes to Clint Eastwood for his soliloquy to an empty chair at the Republican National Convention. That may well be remembered, but the B-and-C-listers will vanish back into oblivion. 8. Election tat is piling up It will be decades before the bog-standard mugs, badges, bumper stickers and posters of this campaign gain any significant value as collectors’ items, says Steve Fe…
ng for them to be spelled out in a new constitution. The election is being hailed as a landmark for Egyptians, who have the opportunity to choose their leader for the first time in the country’s 5,000-year recorded history. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), worried about potential post-election unrest, has sought to reassure Egyptians that it will be the voters themselves who d…
" and needs change In the final days, each stepped up his appeals to voters who backed far-right leader Marine Le Pen and centrist Francois Bayrou in the first round. Marine Le Pen, who attracted 6.4 million voters, has said she would cast a blank ballot but called on supporters to “vote according to their conscience”. Francois Bayrou, who attracted almost 9% of the first-round vo…
20;Ladies and gentlemen, based on the results given, I declare John Dramani Mahama president-elect,” electoral commission chief Kwadwo Afari-Gyan told journalists. He said turnout had been about 80%. Ghana’s incumbent President John Mahama has been won presidential election Ghana, one of the world’s fastest growing economies, is regarded as one of Africa’s most stable demo…
egarded by many as a creature of the old secular regime. Analysts say he drew his support from people fearful of an Islamist takeover, and those exhausted by the upheavals of the past 16 months. About 50 million people were eligible to vote in the polls, in which 13 candidates were vying for the presidency. It was the country’s first freely contested presidential election in its history, and…
…remain in power until presidential elections next year. Under agreed reforms, the parliament and prime minister will acquire greater powers than the president after that election. With results in from 72% of polling stations, Georgian Dream led the party list vote, which accounts for 77 of the 150 seats, with 54% of the vote. The president’s United National Movement was on 41%. The rest of t…
…e military chiefs legislative powers, and the power to veto the new constitution, which has yet to be drafted. In his presidential decree, Mohammed Mursi said new parliamentary elections would be held 60 days after the constitution had been agreed by referendum, the decree said. The Muslim Brotherhood has consistently opposed the decision to dissolve parliament. But analysts say it is unclear whet…
…for a boycott or spoiled ballots. Ahmed Shafiq came second to Mohammed Mursi in last month’s first round, in which turnout among the 52 million eligible voters was only 46%. Ahmed Shafiq • Aged 70 • Veteran fighter pilot and former air force commander • Appointed Egypt’s first aviation minister, earning reputation for competence and efficiency • Promoted to PM during February 2011 pro…
Kenya’s PM Raila Odinga has filed a Supreme Court appeal against Uhuru Kenyatta’s narrow victory in the recent presidential election’s first round. Uhuru Kenyatta beat Raila Odinga comfortably by 50.7% to 43.28% on March 4, avoiding a run-off by only 8,100 votes. However, Raila Odinga has accused the electoral authorities of manipulating the result. Police fired tear gas to disperse a…
More than 60% of voters backed the new Egypt’s constitution in a referendum, although only a third of the electorate voted. Critics say the new constitution favors Islamists and betrays the revolution. President Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power in February 2011 after nearly 30 years of authoritarian rule. After the referendum result was announced on Tuesday, dozens of anti-constitution protest…
…and left millions without power for days. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his counterpart in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, have been reviewing how to prepare their respective states for November 6 – while simultaneously trying to restore electricity and access to food and water. Both states have asked power companies to prioritize electricity to polling stations this coming Tuesday. Ne…
…oting takes place in Cairo, Alexandria and eight other provinces, a week before the rest of the country. Some 250,000 security personnel have been deployed to safeguard a referendum in which more than 51 million people are registered to vote. Polling reportedly had to be spread out because few judges were willing to supervise the referendum but human rights groups have expressed fears the results…
President Barack Obama and his rival Mitt Romney are on track to raise more than $2 billion by Election Day – making it by far the most costly presidential race in history. By November 6, both candidates will have each passed the $1 billion barrier in donations. Barack Obama is already there, according to financial disclosures filed yesterday. The president and his Democrat Party have tallied up…
ballots before Election Day. The final voting precincts on the west coast won’t even begin to be tallied until early Wednesday morning, but the election could be decided much earlier than that 8:00 p.m.: Florida, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania close their polls. Florida is another essential state for Mitt Romney, though it is less important to Obama’s strategy. With 29 electoral vote…
Nate Silver, a New York Times blogger and celebrity numbers wiz, is set to make millions for his spot-on election prediction. Nate Silver, the 34-year-old statistician who developed his own formula for predicting presidential outcomes, bet MSNB morning host Joe Scarborough $2,000 that Barack Obama would win the election on November 6. Both men agreed to donate their winnings to charity. Nate Silv…
ed. There is a broad spread of people, not necessarily from the left, who feel that votes in their parts of Mexico were tampered with, he adds. Accusations of irregularities led to a re-check of about 50% of votes after the result was announced on Monday. The president of Mexico’s electoral body said on Friday following the recount that there was no reason not to accept the result. But Andre…
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