OPINION COLUMN SAN ANTONIO, Texas - I am not going to pretend, after a week travelling through the Lone Star state, to have comprehensive insights into the endless simmer that is the U.S. presidential election. For all that, Democrats sense change in heavier than usual turnout at advance polls this week, in discontent with government in the wake of recent hurricanes, in unexpected gains by Democrats in local elections and in an intensely fought leadership contest between Obama and Hillary Clinton (she won Texas) that engaged three million registered Democrats.
Re: Moms must hover, even on Facebook (Jan. 13). Are there any parents still out there that are willing to say no to Facebook and instant messaging? I've denied my kids this form of peer-communication thus far, despite their attempts to wear me down. I have to admit I've had thoughts about caving, but I genuinely care about their social development. Yes, hover over your kids' Facebook account and "friend" them if you must, but only if you don't have the strength to insist on real, honest to goodness relationships. I sure hope I'm not alone on this. According to my kids, I am. The biggest winners so far are Ukrainians who won the right to freely cast their ballots after the Orange Revolution in 2004. President Viktor Yushchenko delivered on the important election promises of freedom of s...
...'s lead after the first round of the presidential election in Ukraine is not a surprise. He has beenn leading in the national polls over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for several m...
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All we said was 'election.' We didn't say Barack Obama or anything," [Hugh McFadyen] said. "But she was just so overcome with emotion that she stopped the cab and got out and gave us each a hug. She was so thankful that we had come to watch the election. "It's the only thing anyone wants to talk about," he said. "I think we're going to see a seminal event. The turn-out is going to be huge. "There will not be a huge policy change if Obama becomes president," McFadyen said. "That's because of the checks and balances of the U.S. system and the fact there is little fiscal room for policy change. Where there will be massive change is in tone. It also shows the world the American Dream is alive. It proves that anybody can become the president of this country."
...in the lead-up to the presidential election. Polls say Obama will beat John McCain an...
The Afghanistan war is not going well. Canadian and allied casualties mount daily, improvised explosive devices and suicide bombers proliferate, and the Taliban seems to be extending its reach across the country from south to north and east to west. The Afghanistan-Pakistan border continues to remain open to reinforcements and weapons for the Taliban, and the hunt for al-Qaida's top figures, while it has had some successes, remains frustratingly slow. The recent Afghan presidential election still remains unresolved, with the allegations of fraud now being proven. President Hamid Karzai looks to be the winner, but his government is, at best, likely to remain ineffective and corrupt. The war's unpopularity is clear in the opinion polls, each death in the field continues to get extensive c...
The presidential poll in Afghanistan is still the stuff of nightmar... just terrible," says one shaken foreign election expert. "It just can't happen again.". Yet the ret...
As a presidential candidate almost too well known to the voting public, Ms. [Hillary Clinton] carries a lot of baggage herself, but polls indicate that if an election were to be held today, she and Republican Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, would be in a dead heat, followed respectively by [Barak Obama] and John McCain. Obama's formal declaration, however, shakes everything up. It promises the most compelling presidential election in years, an election in which the likeliest winner is either an African-American or a woman. Say what you like about the United States, but no other nation offers its voters such a vigorous and mature democracy.
...Exit polls on 4 November 2008 suggested that economic concern...
After the debacle that was the 2000 presidential election in the United States, one would think election officials would have figured out a way to make voting machines work properly - or, better yet, abandoned them in favour of more traditional and transparent paper ballots - but that apparently hasn't happened. Confusing paper ballots, long lineups at voting booths, inaccurate voter lists and inconsistent rules from state to state have led to a litany of complaints from voters who have run into difficulty while trying to exercise their basic democratic rights, as well as from civil liberties organizations worried about systemic disenfranchisement.
Today, millions of Americans will go to the polls in what is widely considered to be the most import...
Such was the question on lips last January when Mike Huckabee announced his long-shot presidential bid. As a former governor of Arkansas with little national exposure, Huckabee was at the time best known -- if known much at all -- for losing 110 pounds while in office, hardly an obvious White House credential. Iowa Republicans, like Huckabee, are largely evangelical -- nearly 40 per cent of GOP caucus-goers identified themselves as conservative Christians in 2004. In most polls in New Hampshire, which holds its primary Tuesday, Huckabee rarely rises above third place.
... he has taken again in this presidential election, even as the polls this past month placed him at t...
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