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...Olmert-Livni-Barak tussle within the war cabinet, the biggest winner from the Gaza campaign was Benyamin Netanyahu, leader of the hawkish opposition Likud party and front-runner in the polls, who watched the Gaza war from the sidelines and saw his own lead over Livni wider to a margin of 33 seats to her party...
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According to the Romer-Bernstein report, the effects of this plan will last until late 2011, with unemployment still 1.5 percent higher than the natural rate. This stimulus package could define the first term of Obama’s presidency—there is no margin for error...
...crucial factor is that Minnesota already had an election law in place to handle close elections, which mandated a hand recount in contests with a margin of victory smaller than 0.5 percent. Coleman’s razor-thin 0.0075 percent margin of victory over Franken in November failed to meet the cutoff, automatically triggering the recount. Unlike the Florida presidential election in 2000, during which Gore had to fight in court to get a recount, in this case there was no question of whether a recount was in order...
Equally important is the fact that Minnesota’s voting machines leave a clean paper trail, which allowed the recount to take place. If, for instance, Georgia’s recent senatorial runoff election resulted in a similarly small margin, there would have been no possible hand recount. Georgia’s electronic voting machines are paperless—electronic machines typically don’t allow for a hand recount to double check the electronic tally. In contrast, every Minnesota voter marked a paper ballot. This allowed officials to go back and at least try to discern...