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The violence did not stop there. On election day, people in the camps for internally displaced people in northern Sri Lanka waited in vain for the buses that were supposed to bring them to their polling stations. The bomb blasts that rocked some areas in the north reminded them of...

Author: By THRISHANTHA NANAYAKKARA | Title: The Sri Lankan Dilemma | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

Democrats have become even more uncomfortable following the loss of the party's Senate seat in Massachusetts in January. "People talk about the potency of the health care issue," Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior strategist for victorious underdog Republican Scott Brown, told the National Review on election day, "but from our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Grapples with Holder's 9/11 Trials Plan | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

Republicans say they haven't seen any downside yet to opposing reform. Brown actually stepped into Obama's populist trap by opposing the bank tax, and it didn't seem to help his opponent, Martha Coakley, even though internal polling gave her a 21-point advantage when it came to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Bashing the Banks Help Obama? | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

There are measures in place to prevent election fraud. Rohana Hettiarachchi, executive director of People's Action for Free and Fair Elections, says his group has already allocated additional local and international election monitors to sensitive polling districts. Sri Lanka has a well-established, compulsory national identity-card system used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sri Lanka's Crucial Vote: The President vs. the General | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

If there is violence on polling day, voters may stay home in fear, CaFFE's Thenakoon warns. That's a big risk for the opposition, as Fonseka supporters say that the higher the voter turnout, the better his chance of ousting Rajapaksa. "They want to keep us away from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sri Lanka's Crucial Vote: The President vs. the General | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

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