Word: balloters
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...country's founding in 1923 - against a powerful, newly moneyed class rooted in political Islam. The political vehicle of this class, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), was reelected last summer with an overwhelming 47% of the vote. The old guard, having failed to beat the newcomers at the ballot box, has now asked the country's top court to ban the AKP and its leaders for undermining secularist principles they say are enshrined in Turkey's constitution...
...advance of the joint presidential and parliamentary poll on Saturday, the head of the army declared it would not support anyone but Mugabe. All but a few foreign observers and journalists were refused entry. The M.D.C. said it had information that the regime had printed around 3.5 million extra ballot papers, and calculated that the presumed resultant rigging would result in a Mugabe victory. What's more, the M.D.C. has announced leads in previous elections, only to be reversed by later, regime-official counts...
...this may be a real stretch-that such elders are strong and smart enough to act. All they'd have to do would be to convince a significant fraction of their superdelegate friends, maybe fewer than 100, to announce that they were taking a pass on the first ballot at the Denver convention, which would deny the 2,025 votes necessary to Obama or Clinton. What if they then approached Gore and asked him to be the nominee, for the good of the party-and suggested that he take Obama as his running mate? Of course, Obama would have...
Michigan, which has 156 delegates, held its primary on January 15, and Clinton won handily, with 55% of the vote. But all the other major Democratic contenders had taken their name off the Michigan ballot. ("Uncommitted" came in second, with 40%.) And Florida, which has 210 delegates, voted on Jan. 29. All of the Democratic contenders were on the ballot, but had pledged not to campaign there. Clinton won with 50% of the vote, well ahead of Obama...
Obama's camp, which raised doubts about the reliability of the Michigan revote plan that Clinton's camp was pushing, has proposed that the candidates split the two states' delegates. On Thursday, former presidential contender Sen. Chris Dodd-who like Clinton had left his name on the Michigan ballot, and who now supports Obama-put out a statement declaring: "The best outcome is to come to an arrangement where the delegates are apportioned fairly between Senators Obama and Clinton, so the Michigan delegation can participate fully in the Denver convention." But Clinton almost immediately rejected that idea, telling reporters...