…no presidential election ever being postponed, some are pointing to past precedents where voting has been delayed. New York City was holding its mayoral primary when terrorists struck on September 11, 2001, and the city rescheduled the election. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Louisiana’s governor postponed municipal elections in New Orleans after elections officials said polling places wou…
ent On Wednesday the eurozone crisis pushed Asian stocks lower and knocked oil prices. Tokyo’s Nikkei index dropped 1%, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng and South Korea’s KOSPI lost about 3%. The euro fell more than half a cent to $1.27. Meanwhile the borrowing costs for Spain and Italy rose again, with Spanish bond yields hitting 6.5% and Italy’s 6.1%. The uncertainty over the…
…re banned in the two weeks before the election. Tough austerity measures were attached to the two international bailouts awarded to Greece, an initial package worth 110 billion Euros ($138 billion) in 2010, then a follow-up last year worth 130 billion Euros. While five of the seven main political groups reject the last bailout, only one – the Communists – wants the country to abandon t…
…ding America and much of the rest of the world back into recession. In trading on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged from the opening bell and by mid-afternoon was showing a loss of 300 points or 2.24% the biggest single day fall in 2012 and the largest loss since November 2011. It closed down 312.95 points at 12932.73. Disquiet about the outcome of the election and its impact o…
; that’s how you build trust. Sunglasses put a barrier between you and the other person. They say eyes are the windows of the soul, and if I can’t see your soul how can I trust you?” 3. In Nevada, you can vote for “none of the above” The US state of Nevada allows voters to mark “None of these candidates” on the ballot. The option has been on the ballot since 1976 and…
…ell as low as $1.295, its lowest since January, and dropped to three-year lows against the pound. The main European stock markets fell early on before recovering. In Germany, the DAX fell by more than 2%, but by mid-afternoon was only down by 0.1%. In Paris, the CAC 40 recovered to trade up by 0.7%. Athens shares fell by as much as 8.3%. In London, markets were closed for a bank holiday. Euro fel…
…#8211; the economy being the most important one. It is very rare, he says, for a person to change their party affiliation, so the pool of persuadable voters is small, perhaps as little as around 2% or 3% he argues, once you exclude people who will not vote. But in a close race, tiny margins can be the difference between winning and losing. “The ads aren’t just trying to change the unde…
…day. “We’ve come too far to turn back now. We’ve come too far to let our hearts grow faint.” Thirty million Americans have already cast their ballot through early voting across 34 states. In the 2008 presidential election, 130 million people voted. With the election expected to be decided by a razor-thin margin, both sides are readying teams of lawyers for legal fights. Dem…
Greek main parties have suffered dramatic losses in the parliamentary election, according to exit polls. The latest polls put centre-right New Democracy in the lead with 19-20.5% of the vote, down from 33.5% in 2009. Centre-left Pasok is put in third place with 13-14%, down from 43.9%. Syriza, a left-wing coalition, is put ahead of it in second place with 15.5-17%. Pasok and New Democracy, in coa…
Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign by Brendan J. Doherty. Barack Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year of office. The figures, contained in The…
e mattresses, a dog’s arthritis or erectile dysfunction. Answering the phone has become a whole lot easier for those in swing states too – if there is a call, it is probably a real person. 3. The polling addicts are in detox There are lots of “poll junkies” out there, says self-confessed addict Daniel Hamermesh, who teaches economics at the University of Texas at Austin and…
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…unable to form a government, and new elections seem set to give power to parties that reject the spending cuts that have been agreed with other eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund 3. Business bankruptcies Greek businesses face a legal and financial disaster. Some contracts governed by Greek law are converted into drachmas, while other foreign law contracts remain in Euros. Man…
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…vili said the “only right decision” would now be for Mikheil Saakashvili to resign. While Bidzina Ivanishvili, 56, is set to become prime minister, his rival, who has led the country since 2003, is due to 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. Wit…
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President Viktor Yanukovych’s party has claimed victory in Ukraine’s parliamentary election. The Party of Regions has more than 36%, and the opposition party of Yulia Tymoshenko, who is in jail, has just over 21%, with one-third of party list votes counted. It appears Viktor Yanukovych’s party is also ahead in single mandate districts, which form half of all the seats. Western governm…
…that the identity of the gunmen was not yet known but that the attack would not affect the vote. The poll has already been postponed once before. Around 2.9 million people are eligible to vote for the 3,700 candidates standing for the new General National Congress, in Libya’s first national vote since Col Gaddafi was toppled in October 2011 after an eight-month uprising. There are countless…
…rts bearing slogans including “I support the petition” and “Democracy on trial”. The presidential, legislative and municipal elections held 12 days ago were the first since the 2007 poll which set off ethnic and political violence in which more than 1,200 people were killed. Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate, William Ruto, are facing trial on charges of crimes against hum…
h to identify states such as Nevada which Romney probably won’t win. If we look at the 2008 electoral college map, when Barack Obama beat Senator John McCain by an electoral college landslide of 365 to 173 (and seven percentage points in the popular vote), we can view the terrain on which the 2012 contest is being fought. The distribution of electoral college votes (which are based on congre…
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…ek sovereign bonds. Austerity measures have prompted mass demonstrations in Greece The plan was agreed by the Greek parliament last week, and, if backed by Greece’s creditors, it would wipe out 107 billion Euros ($142 billion) of the country’s debt. S&P said that when the debt exchange was complete it would assess Greece again and possibly raise its rating. The Greek government sa…
d. Burma’s current government is still dominated by military and ex-military figures from the old regime that ruled the country for decades and was accused of widespread rights abuses. But since 2010, when a transition to a new generation of leaders began, the government has impressed observers with the pace of change. Most political prisoners have been freed, media restrictions have been re…
France is prepared for the second round of presidential election that could see a socialist winner for the first time since 1988. In the first round socialist Francois Hollande won 28.6% of the vote, ahead of incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy on 26.2%. Rising unemployment and the euro crisis have dominated the campaign. Nicolas Sarkozy says he averted recession and will preserve a “strong France…
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…
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