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…
…ll waiting for them to arrive. New Hampshire voter Pamela Keilig didn’t find out until last week that her application for an absentee ballot was lost in the mail. She is now planning to make the 75-minute drive across state lines to cast her vote on Tuesday, according to ABC News. While some in the Granite state anxiously await the arrival of their ballots in the mail, many Iowa voters have…
2 to produce this map. Because of the changes, Barack Obama’s advantage has shrunk to 359 to 179 in the electoral college. The winner needs 270 votes. So for Mitt Romney to win, he needs to take 91 electoral college votes from the states that Barack Obama won in 2008. We can immediately give one vote in Nebraska (based on winning a congressional district) and 11 in Indiana to Mitt Romney. Ba…
toral votes, but both candidates have visited multiple times. Barack Obama holds and edge in the polls, but Mitt Romney owns a house in the Granite State and was governor of neighboring Massachusetts. 9:00 p.m.: Wisconsin and Colorado polls close. Colorado isn’t a big catch, with nine electoral votes, but it’s a major test of Barack Obama’s support among Hispanic voters. Both can…
allup says Mitt Romney has more ballots in the bank than President Barack Obama by a margin of 52% to 45%. As many as a third of Americans are likely to go to the polls before Election Day on November 6. Gallup still has the two candidates in a dead heat at 49% among likely voters as the race enters its final week. With Hurricane Sandy throwing both men’s campaigns into chaos, the early voters cou…
…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…
is a southerner’s game,” says Grant Barrett. “It’s a talker’s game and Southerners are talkers. At the national level we have often been dominated by Southerners.” 9. Only a third of the US matters On 6 November, the election will effectively be decided by less than a third of the US population. Most of the states in America, including four of the five most pop…
…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 …
…iately. The move which allowed no exceptions for victims of Sandy caused massive confusion, as earlier in the day Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno had told county-level officials to accept e-mailed ballots until 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday. However, the security risks inherent in voting remotely was deemed a danger that could compromise the result and the Lt. Gov was forced to issue new advice to beleaguered voters…
to cater for queues at a number of polling stations. NGOs and rights groups monitoring the election reported some complaints. Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) said they received 50 complaints on electoral violations ranging from delay in opening voting booths, to campaigning for candidates outside polling stations during voting. There was a heavy police and military presence…
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, bringing his total to 124. Jimm…
ouragement for Barack Obama in North Carolina • Colorado: 325,810 votes have been cast so far – 126,539 from Republicans and 120,965 from Democrats and 75,030 from unaffiliated voters • Florida: 925,604 votes as mail-in-absentee ballots have been cast – 414,016 from Republicans and 363,881 from Democrats. In person early voting begins today in the Sunshine State • Iowa: 399 ballots hav…
…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…
…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…
…allenger, Mitt Romney, is in Ohio, a swing state which could hold the key to the White House. A new Associated Press poll suggests Mitt Romney has eked out a slight national edge over Barack Obama, by 47% to 45%. The survey also showed that Mitt Romney had erased some of the president’s lead among women, although Barack Obama had sliced into his rival’s lead with male voters. The presi…
to re-elect President Barack Obama or hand the job to Republican Mitt Romney Also on Tuesday’s ballot are a handful of state governors, one third of the seats in the 100-member US Senate and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans are expected to keep control of the House, while Democrats were tipped to do the same in the Senate. The presidential candidates spent Monday fr…
needed. Ten signs Election Day is over 5. You only read Buzzfeed for pictures of cats Once upon a time, Buzzfeed was a site devoted to cats playing the piano, photos of kids with weird haircuts, and 90s nostalgia. But then Politico whiz-kid Ben Smith came on board just in time for the drama of the 2012 election. Suddenly the site known for articles like This Grandma And Her Cat Are The Cutest Be…
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…
ine 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 vote on 22 April, said he would back Francois Hollande in the second. The socialist candidate has also been endorsed by hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, who won 11% of th…
…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…
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…
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…
e she was taking to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Pat Summitt talked about her early-onset dementia diagnosis. Early-onset dementia is a term used for progressive dementia that begins before age 65, so, to be aware of its symptoms and visiting doctor for an early diagnosis are crucial. Linda Johnson, director of programs for Alzheimer’s Tennessee Inc. has some hope to offer to…
…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…
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…
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