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...conservatives by 47.05% to 45.29% - a margin far closer than the tidal wave of protest that had been predicted in opinion polling. Little wonder, then, that Fillon and other conservative leaders applauded the initial outcome as "balanced," and denounced leftist claims that constituted a rebuke of Sarkozy as as "partisan politics that don't correspond to local realities...
...smaller nationalist parties from Cataluña and the Basque Country. But in a sign of the sharpening divide in the country, those smaller third parties like United Left and the Catalan Republican Left lost significant numbers of seats. The 2008 elections, it turned out, were the most bi-partisan in Spanish history, with the Socialists and the Popular Party now making up 92% of the seats in Congress...
...McCain is only presidential candidate that I would work for.” In terms of duties, Johnson both informs and organizes student supporters. And once, he even got to drive the senator around New Hampshire in the official shadow car. But student activism spans both sides of the partisan spectrum. Katherine C. Harris ’10, recently travelled to the Lone Star State, logging long hours for the Democratic contender, Senator Barack Obama, before the Texas Primary. Encouraged by her freshman seminar professor Maxine Isaacs of the Kennedy School, Harris jumped at the chance to get involved...
...Rwanda experience. While working to give a voice to the people of Africa, I have met various people along the journey that were unforgettable, one being Senator Barack Obama. I met him at a conference at Saddleback Church as he spoke along side Senator Sam Brownback on the bi-partisan efforts of the Senate in helping the continent of Africa in the fight against HIV/Aids. After that first meeting, I thought that Senator Obama would be a great candidate for the presidency if he ever ran. And, as you can imagine, I was delighted when I saw on the news...
Sounds like you might have a hard time getting on the ballot in some states? Of course... One of the missions of this campaign is to highlight these obstructions, these harassments of petitioners, the arbitrary disqualification of thousands of signatures unlawfully by partisan judges. The small-candidate situation in this country is similar to what minority voting rights 50-60 years ago had to face...