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McGovern's inherent decency cost him one of the nation's most crucial Presidential elections in 1972, running against the original king of dirty tricks, Richard Milhouse Nixon.
The Secret Service Agent Alex McGregor (Daryl Hannah) is in charge of the security of President Jonathan Hayes (Gregory Harrison), who is facing problems with a powerful group represented by his vice-president (Ken Camroux) and the entrepreneur and Senator Jack 'J.P.' Hunter (Tom Butler) that helped him to win the elections.
Last November’s elections changed for the better the politics of trade, as the Republican Party is now in the majority in the US House of Representatives.
The Egyptian CrucibleMADRID – As Egyptians tensely awaited the results of their country’s presidential elections, a thread of pessimism ran through the discourse of the young people and secular liberals who had brought down Hosni Mubarak in January 2011.
The week before the presidential elections, the SCAF-allied Constitutional Court dissolved the recently elected parliament, alleging illegality in the voting process.
The secular liberal forces’ political fragmentation and lack of organization cost them dearly in the parliamentary elections six months ago, and, in the second round of the presidential election, a majority of Egyptians chose Morsi over a restoration of the old regime.
Rather than quelling dissent, government intervention only inspires more people to take their grievances to WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms, where Africans are increasingly challenging corrupt governments, exposing rigged elections, and demanding to be heard.
Leaders in nine of the 18 African countries that held elections in 2016 placed some level of restriction on the Internet to limit dissent.
With several key African elections coming up, Internet shutdowns are again on the horizon.
If oil prices rise much further during the summer “driving season” that starts in the US about now, Trump will be blamed by voters and Republicans could suffer in November’s midterm congressional elections, especially in Midwestern swing states.
And with the prospect of general elections in 1998, the political front is infinitely less quiet than in Germany.
The isolationism that characterized America's 1994 congressional elections is forgotten.
Specifically, the US needs to address the problem of so-called “super PACs,” political action committees that allow rich special interests and individuals to buy elections.
The thinking minority needs a system of laws and institutions, real presidential elections, a working parliament, and justice that is independent, rather than merely following orders from above.
Those who chose not to participate in last January’s elections will most certainly do so now, both in the referendum and in the upcoming elections to a new Assembly in December.
Regardless of who wins the elections, there will be temptations to tinker with the constitutional text.
India’s national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.
The 2004 elections were won by the Congress party, led by a woman political leader of Roman Catholic faith and Italian descent (Sonia Gandhi), who made way for a Sikh prime minister (Manmohan Singh) to be sworn by a Muslim (President Abdul Kalam) in a country that is 81% Hindu.
That single moment captured much of what elections have meant for this diverse democracy.
The agenda for such contacts must start with enforcement of the second Minsk ceasefire agreement concluded in February, including adequate demilitarization and monitoring in eastern Ukraine, as well as agreement on a framework for local elections.
Perhaps the clearest indication of the party’s decline occurred in December, when it suffered crushing defeats in four key state-assembly elections.
This was an unprecedented rout – and does not bode well for Congress in the upcoming national elections.
In the US, the next opportunity to do that will be the midterm congressional elections in November.
But this calculation was the result of a politically motivated statistical revision, initiated by the government that won the 2004 elections.
More uncertainty followed with France’s change of government in May 2012, and then again with Greece’s inconclusive elections the following month.
As Europe defines what it stands for, let us also consider an audacious yet practical idea: synchronization of Europe’s political clocks, so that all of Europe’s national elections are held within the same year – or even the same month.
On the contrary, financial regulation has become a key issue in November’s presidential and congressional elections.
Buy the time it came to Brazil, at the end of 1998 and, again, early this year, everyone knew the script: new elections, a barely averted currency collapse, embarking on the IMF program, and a rapid rebound.
That figure contrasts markedly with elections in the United States, where the turnout in the 2004 presidential election barely exceeded 60%.
In Congressional elections that fall in the middle of a president’s term, usually fewer than 40% of eligible Americans bother to vote.
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