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However plausible, the Apps’ stunning win made them instant media darlings, earning them a Sports Illustrated cover and votes in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, after a policy adjustment allowed them, despite their under-division status, to appear on the ballot. A record crowd turned out in Boone, N.C., this past Saturday to watch the de facto No. 33 Mountaineers (they’re eighth among teams “also receiving votes”) dismantle Lenior-Rhyne...
...months, Maria Protou, an 18-year-old bleached-blonde philosophy student, was looking forward to her maiden trip to the ballot box this Sunday. But then, a Greek tragedy transpired. Hellish blazes tore through forests parched by two months of intense heat this August, destroying thousands of acres of farmland, killing at least 65 people, and throwing the government's reflexes - and political fortunes - into question. Today, on the eve of the election, Prappa considers skipping the vote entirely, in protest of the tragedy. "It's either that," she says, "or casting a blank ballot or voting for a small...
...Greece's looming political uncertainty has precipitated calls for a grand alliance between the country's perennial political foes. "Frustrated voters cultivate romantic notions," a senior pollster said on condition of anonymity because of the polling ban. On Sunday he said, "most voters will sober up before the ballot box and pick the best of the unfavourable choices before them." Provided, of course, they show...
...open-seat election. For the first time since 1952, there will be no incumbent President or Vice President on the ballot. As we know from state and local elections, nonincumbent races are more volatile and less predictable than those with incumbents, which tend to be reasonably predictable referendums on the party in power. But in 2008 there won't be an incumbent, and there won't even be someone who resembles an incumbent: none of the leading Republicans have worked in or been particularly close to the Bush Administration. Indeed, the three leading Republicans and two leading Democrats have never...
...suggested that public contact between him and McGuiness might be scaled back. But the settlement that brought them together remains sound. Paisley has been in politics almost as long as he's been in the pulpit: he ensured that his rivals for the unionist vote were beaten at the ballot box before he took the plunge with Sinn Fein, so his internal critics currently have nowhere to go. Politically, he can afford the loss of his church. The Free Presbyterians, when children are counted, still amount to only a little over 5% of the DUP's vote...