…re 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 put back from November 6th. While the answer is of course yes in theory, the probability of the choice between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama being postponed is unlikely despite the devastating effect Hurricane San…
…s, Michael Toner says, a good thing. “It’s very healthy in terms of American politics… it’s a symptom of a very vigorous election season, there’s a lot at stake here.” On 6 November, Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, is set to challenge Barack Obama for the presidency, and polls suggest the margin between them could be wafer thin. New figures just relea…
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…
al title,” he says. “I liken it to when a judge or a doctor retires. They’ve invested a lot in their professional identity and many retain the use of their professional title.” 6. Election loser can still win the White House Four times in American history, the candidate with fewer votes has wound up with the presidency. That is because the winner of the presidential electio…
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. Polls begin to close at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and results will flood in not long thereafter. Whichever candidate reaches 270 electoral college votes wins the White House. Crucially, Barack Obama won each of the swing states li…
…ubarak’s failing health could be used as a distraction as Egypt awaits the result of the hotly disputed election. On Wednesday, the Higher Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC) said that some 400 election complaints had been filed by the two candidates. The commission said it needed more time to investigate the complaints, without giving any new date for the announcement of the results. H…
…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…
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…
ers, putting forward a mix of breaking scoops and in-depth features. They’re probably still doing all that stuff, but now that the election is over, you’re more interested in those salads. 6. Joe Biden stops emailing you You can open your inbox without it being full of emails from the candidates or their campaign teams, usually exhorting you to dig deep into your pockets or give up som…
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…
" 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…
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Ghana’s incumbent President John Mahama has been won presidential election, the electoral commission has announced. The commission said that John Mahama had won 50.7% against opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo on 47.74%. However, the opposition NPP says it will contest the result, accused the governing NDC party of conspiring with commission staff to fix Friday’s poll. President John M…
Some 50 million voters across Iran are casting their ballots in the country’s key presidential elections. Although all six candidates are seen as conservatives, one of them, cleric Hassan Rouhani, has been reaching out to the reformists in recent days. The election will decide a successor to outgoing leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s eight years in power have been characteri…
…atic transfer of power in Georgia’s post-Soviet history. Bidzina Ivanishvili 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 mi…
…ty will be to battle the poverty in our country at its roots,” he said during his final campaign rally. But in recent weeks the gap between Enrique Pena Nieto and Andreas Manuel Lopez Obrador, a 58-year-old former Mexico City mayor, has been narrowing, opinion polls say. Mexico has opened the polls in a presidential election dominated by the economy and war on drugs Andreas Manuel Lopez Obr…
…for previous rounds of voting, and some called for a boycott or spoiled ballots. On Tuesday, the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party announced that Mohammed Mursi, its chairman, had won with 51.74% of the vote, citing official figures from the HPEC. Mohammed Mursi has also secured the support of several leading liberal figures and youth activists in Egypt, including Wael Ghonim, who play…
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…
…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…
…s loss was not humiliating. Despite claiming he “loves life too much to be bitter”, however, Nicolas Sarkozy appeared visibly tense today while accompanying Francois Hollande to a ceremony marking the 67th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The former rivals laid a wreath at the tomb of the untold soldier, beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Despite winning thei…
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…
his “five key punches” as corruption, indifference of the authorities, lack of local governance, inequality and poverty. There were 3,500 accredited foreign observers, including more than 600 from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Earlier, Western officials expressed concerns over campaigning. In a New York Times editorial, US Secretary of State Hillary…
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…
umber is you’ve got an incumbent president who has been running for this job for the last four years since the day he got elected, will have raised and spent over $1 billion and he is stuck well below 50, at 48, 47, 46, in all of these polls. “When you’re an incumbent under 50, and well under 50, that’s a bad place to be.” Related search articles:anna reese swing set accident Rolf Harris L…
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