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Election Day could be postponed due to Hurricane Sandy

Election Day could be postponed due to Hurricane Sandy

…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…

Barack Obama has held more re-election fundraisers than previous five Presidents combined

Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined

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…

Ten US election oddities

Ten of lesser-spotted things about American presidential politics and about 2012 campaign

; 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…

Why does the US election cost so much?

Center for Responsive Politics says the estimated price tag for the US elections in 2012 is almost $6 billion

…#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…

Barack Obama combines official duties with campaign events in New York and charges taxpayers

Before the fundraisers, one at Sarah Jessica Parker's house and one at the five-star Plaza Hotel, Barack Obama scheduled a visit to the World Trade Center site

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Egypt’s presidential election results delayed

Egypt's presidential poll results have been delayed by the election authorities, raising further tension across the country

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Election Day: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney address final rallies in swing states

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have spent the day before the election visiting key swing states and making final pitches to voters

…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…

Ten signs Election Day is over

Ten signs Election Day is over

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…

How Mitt Romney can still win US presidential election

How Mitt Romney can still win US presidential election

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…

Egyptians vote in the second round of their first free presidential election

Egyptians are set to vote in the second round of their first free presidential election in a two-day run-off

rst democratic elections in more than six decades was unconstitutional because party members were allowed to contest seats reserved for independents. The Freedom and Justice Party won about 100 of its 235 seats in the People’s Assembly by running candidates for individual seats. If parliament is dissolved swiftly by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), whoever wins this wee…

France votes in second round of presidential election

Nicolas Sarkozy says he averted recession and will preserve a "strong France” while Francois Hollande contends the country is in "serious crisis" and needs change

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…

Egyptians vote in their first free presidential election after Mubarak-era

Egyptians are starting to vote in their first free presidential election, 15 months after ousting Hosni Mubarak in the Arab Spring uprising

Egyptians are starting to vote in their first free presidential election, 15 months after ousting Hosni Mubarak in the Arab Spring uprising. Fifty million people are eligible to vote, and queues are forming at some polling stations. The military council which assumed presidential power in February 2011 has promised a fair vote and civilian rule. The election pits Islamists against secularists, an…

John Mahama wins Ghana’s presidential election

Ghana's incumbent President John Mahama has been won presidential election

…ncies between initial tally sheets and the results reported in the media. John Mahama’s presidential adviser Tony Aidoo said there was no foundation for the allegations. Nana Akufo-Addo lost the 2008 presidential poll by one percentage point, but accepted the result. Glitches with a new finger-printing system meant that voting continued into Saturday in some parts of the country. However, ob…

Egyptians await presidential election results

Egypt is awaiting the delayed results of the presidential run-off election held last weekend

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Mikheil Saakashvili admits election loss in Georgia

Mikheil Saakashvili has admitted his party has lost the parliamentary election

…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…

Raila Odinga files Supreme Court appeal against Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in Kenyan election

Raila Odinga has filed a Supreme Court appeal against Uhuru Kenyatta's narrow victory in the recent presidential election's first round

…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…

New Jersey residents can vote via email in the upcoming presidential election

New Jersey residents told they can vote via email as the Northeast scrambles to prepare polling stations after Sandy

…ronic option will allow first responders who are working away from home and those displaced by the storm to cast their ballot. Hurricane Sandy, that barreled down on New Jersey and New York on October 29, has claimed 110 lives, displaced thousands 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…

2012 election results so far: Who is winning presidential race?

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

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Election Day 2012: the most costly presidential race in history with more than $2 billion fundraising

Barack Obama and his rival Mitt Romney are on track to raise more than $2 billion by Election Day

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Nate Silver, the man who predicted election results and Barack Obama’s victory

Nate Silver, the 34-year-old statistician who developed his own formula for predicting presidential outcomes

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…

Mexico election: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will mount legal challenge to the result

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the second-placed candidate in Mexico's presidential election, has said he will mount a legal challenge to the result

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the second-placed candidate in Mexico’s presidential election, has said he will mount a legal challenge to the result. He said he would prove that illicit money was used to buy votes and secure the victory of centrist candidate Enrique Pena Nieto, who denies this. Enrique Pena Nieto was confirmed the winner on Friday after a final recount, with 38.21% to Andres…

Francois Hollande wins first round of France’s presidential election

Socialist Francois Hollande has won most votes in the first round of France's presidential election, early estimates say

Socialist Francois Hollande has won most votes in the first round of France’s presidential election, early estimates say. Francois Hollande got 28.4% of votes, according to projections based on partial results, against 25.5% for centre-right incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande will face each other in a second-round run-off on 6 May. The election has been dominat…

First round of France’s presidential election

Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a tough challenge from Socialist Francois Hollande, who has said it is "the left's turn to govern"

…ainland France and Corsica are open until 18:00, with voting stations in big cities remaining open for a further two hours. The first official results will be released after the last stations close at 20:00. Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a tough challenge from Socialist Francois Hollande, who has said it is "the left's turn to govern" President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been in office si…

Francois Hollande celebrates victory in France’s presidential election

President-elect Francois Hollande and the new First Lady Valerie Trierweiler celebrating in Paris

. My involvement in the life of my country will now be different.” During the campaign, he had said he would leave politics if he lost the election. Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been in office since 2007, had promised to reduce France’s large budget deficit through spending cuts. He becomes the latest European leader to be voted out of office amid widespread voter anger at austerity measur…

Venezuela presidential election: Hugo Chavez vs. Henrique Capriles

Left-wing incumbent Hugo Chavez, first elected in 1999, is being challenged by opposition leader Henrique Capriles

Venezuelan voters are set to go to the polls in what is predicted to be the country’s most tightly contested presidential election in a decade. Left-wing incumbent Hugo Chavez, first elected in 1999, is being challenged by opposition leader Henrique Capriles. Hugo Chavez wants to continue what he calls his socialist revolution while Henrique Capriles has promised to restore economic growth….

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