Word: ballot
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...Sadrist movement has a base in the street," says Ali al-Mayali, a Sadrist member of parliament. "[It is] a base the other won't have - could never dream of having." In southern Iraq, political disputes are still more likely to be solved in the streets than at the ballot...
Hillary Clinton wasn't on the ballot last year in western Pennsylvania, but you might not have known that from the ad that ran on local television a month before the election. The spot featured images of Clinton with Democratic congressional candidate Jason Altmire, who had served on her health-care task force when she was First Lady. It was one of more than 30 negative campaign commercials run against Democratic candidates in which Clinton played a co-starring role, according to the research firm TNS Media Intelligence. "The opposition did research in my district," says Altmire...
...fear among Democratic candidates has been growing along with Clinton's lead in the Democratic presidential primary, though few care to talk about it on the record. The 2006 election saw Democrats winning up and down the ballot in areas that have traditionally been hostile territory, from county elections on George W. Bush's Texas turf to House and Senate races in places like Montana, Virginia, Kansas and North Carolina. But some Democrats worry that those fragile gains could be difficult to hold in 2008 if one of the most polarizing figures in politics...
Rebuke for stem-cell research New Jersey Governor John Corzine spent $150,000 of his own money on a measure to create state-funded stem-cell research. But taxpayers balked at the $450 million price tag; pro-lifers fought it on moral grounds. It became the first statewide ballot initiative rejected by New Jersey voters in 17 years...
More remarkable is Tvert's counterpart in Idaho, Ryan Davidson of Boise. Davidson operated without any MPP money after failing to get measures on the ballot in 2004 in a number of Idaho cities. This past year, he got it on Hailey's ballot after winning a ruling in federal district court that overturned Hailey's law preventing nonresidents from circulating petitions. "This was the least funded campaign in history," he says. "I spent maybe 20 bucks. I got the signatures on the petitions on my own dime. I spread the word through e-mail and phone calls and posting...