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What you didn't know about Senator George McGovern and presidential candidate George McGovern is captured by director Stephen Vittoria in this documentary which should be required viewing by all who care about our country and our election process.
This film is a tribute to a man, a former fighter pilot (35 missions in WWII), a respected senator from South Dakota and candidate for the presidency.
If we still had book burnings as in the old days this would be a prime candidate.
His campaign manager Harry Stone (Ken Swofford) demands the candidate dump his mistress (Tisha Sterling) and backs up the demand with threats to expose the politician's shady past.
But Stone approves of the candidate's publicity-minded lie that anonymous killers are threatening the politician's life, little guessing that Hayward will murder him and blame it on these invented assailants.
They even managed a stereotype here, making this obnoxious mayoral candidate a cousin of one of our protagonists.
Suddenly her persistent admirers are starting to die in gruesome ways and she finds out that there is another candidate, a huge insect, beginning to eliminate the competition and imitating their look an their behaviour to impress the woman.
Although this election was accompanied by far less violence than the previous presidential vote in 2007, the opposition candidate Raila Odinga’s second consecutive defeat has only re-enforced his supporters’ fears that they are once again being cheated out of power.
Kenyans typically complain that key positions are not advertised nationally (as required by law) until the employer has already found the “ideal” candidate.
The candidate is then best placed to benefit when the temporary post is upgraded and advertised as a permanent position.
For starters, at the onset of the crisis, then-IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was a leading candidate to become President of France.
Among voters who rated "honesty" as an important factor influencing their choice of candidate, 80% said that they voted for Bush.
Without that prospect, no candidate country would go through the painful process of adopting the tens of thousands of rules and regulations contained in the Acquis Communautaire (the body of EU law).
Finally, like all candidate countries, Turkey also receives financial and technical assistance in support of ongoing reform programs.
Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn has spelt it out with the necessary clarity: “If we stick to what we have ourselves decided at the highest political level in the European Council, as we should, I am reasonably confident that the negotiations shall start on the October 3.”This statement is to the credit of the European Commission, and there is not much to be added, except to emphasize that it is up to EU governments to treat Turkey with the fairness that all candidate countries deserve.
Turkey is in a different category, because it is a NATO member and a candidate (at least in principle) for EU membership.
For starters, a no-confidence vote in Germany cannot succeed unless an alternative candidate wins the backing of an absolute majority in the Bundestag.
One answer was provided by two of Mitt Romney’s advisers, who stated that their candidate particularly valued the “special relationship” with Britain because of the shared “Anglo-Saxon heritage.”
Take the case of Patrick Buchanan the former Nixon and Reagan aid who became an independent presidential candidate in the last election.
Because a mere 137 votes can get a town council member elected, a large number of foreigners with a particular interest in moving onto the island could nominate a winning candidate.
First, the European Council could choose an EPP candidate who is less ambiguous on Hungary.
But if the European Council is deadlocked, and the European Parliament opposes her choice, she could endorse another candidate.
The third option could be a candidate endorsed by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), such as Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner.
Some observers argue that the Danish government will never propose Vestager as their candidate.
But Macron, who strongly supports Vestager, could endorse her as the French candidate – an unprecedented move that would accelerate the Europeanization of continental politics.
Analysts had predicted that the election would be marred by violence like that following the presidential poll in 2011, which Muhammadu Buhari, a former military dictator and candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), lost to the PDP’s Goodluck Jonathan.
They asked Jonathan not to run in 2011, and insisted that the PDP nominate a candidate from the north.
One possible candidate is Said Jalili, Iran’s current nuclear negotiator, or someone like him.
Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2012, was right when he called Trump “a phony, a fraud,” a candidate whose promises are “worthless.”
The political advantage should not go to the most mendacious candidate.
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