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...Sundquist campaign,” said Laures, who added that he is friends with Sundquist and had informally gained a good idea of what the Sundquist’s campaign platform would look like. Laures’s decision comes only days before official campaigning is set to begin for this year’s elections. Candidates are not allowed to begin drawing from their allotted $400 campaign budgets, seeking student group endorsements, or otherwise soliciting votes until 12:01 p.m. on Thursday. AN OUTSIDE CHANCEHad Laures and Oakland moved forward with their candidacy, they would have represented the third...
...post-2012 successor treaty to Kyoto, Rudd in mid-campaign abruptly took the Howard position: no ratification of Kyoto II unless it requires China and India to limit their carbon emissions. On Iraq, Rudd has moderated Labor's earlier "immediate pull-out" policy. He says he will begin negotiations with the U.S. and Iraq on a staged withdrawal of 500 combat troops - one-third of the total deployment there - to take place over the next seven months...
...Rudd left the stage in triumph Saturday night, some in the audience wondered whether he will maintain his Howard-like campaign face or become more Labor-like. The party's "true believers" hope, along with political commentator Robert Manne, that "when he gets into government, then we'll begin to see the differences again." Voters who swung to Labor only after Rudd moved toward the center may be praying those differences stay small...
...half years is just too long," many said of Howard's long run - cheered Rudd's victory speech, some observers wondered whether he'll maintain his Howard-like demeanor or whether, as left-wing commentator Robert Manne said during the campaign, "When he gets into government, then we'll begin to see the differences again." Australians who voted Labor only when Rudd moved toward the center may be hoping those differences are not too startling...
...candidates were required to submit 150 student signatures in support of their bid to the Election Commission by 11:59 yesterday. Taylor noted in an e-mail on Tuesday that he would reserve the right to disqualify candidates pending verification of the signatures' validity. Campaigning is set to begin on Nov. 28, with voting running from...