Word: balloters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...League must develop a detailed plan before the proposal is adopted. Scudamore suggested fixtures could be matched to a host city through a ballot. So, although Manchester City is owned by former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a strong bid from Bangkok wouldn't necessarily be enough to land a match involving that particular club. (And given the weather in January, don't expect Chelsea - owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich - to head for Moscow.) Don't expect much enthusiasm, either, from the English fans who sing their lungs out every week watching their teams play, home and away...
...settled nothing. In a result now achingly familiar to the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama split the popular vote 50.2% to 49.8%, by a margin so thin, you could barely slide a butterfly ballot betwixt. Tuesday slipped into Wednesday without anyone knowing for sure how many delegates each candidate had captured, as provisional ballots in New Mexico were slowly tabulated by hand...
...there once and for all. McCain remained the Man to Beat, but his opponents were giving it their best shot. Seeing Romney closing in on him in California, McCain's forces joined hands with Huckabee's to deny Romney a victory in the West Virginia caucus; on the second ballot, with McCain's help, Huckabee won with 52% of the vote. Romney managed victories in his home states of Massachusetts and Utah, as well as North Dakota. But across the south, with victories in Alabama, Georgia and Arkansas, Huckabee demonstrated again that his faithful congregation is not ready to give...
...about whether this was the dawn of a brave new era of European people power. "This is purely symbolic," Tscherny says. "And I'm not sure direct democracy is such a good idea for day-to-day issues. Remember that not everyone uses the Internet. Personally, I expect that ballot boxes will be around in school halls for a good while to come...
...That's not strictly true. Republicans didn't bother with any such shenanigans. Their overseas supporters are expected to vote by postal ballot in their home states. Republicans Abroad U.K. holds fundraisers and social get-togethers such as the first meeting of its Young Republican branch, a staid gathering where some two dozen fresh-faced professionals and students met up, also on Super Tuesday, in a central London bar. One of their number, banker Allison Bruneau, 28, says she's encountered a view among Britons that supporters of President Bush "drive pick-up trucks" and pine for slavery...