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...Even if the issues with seating the Florida delegates are resolved, I still don't intend on endorsing a candidate," said Ron Klein, a freshman congressman from Boca Raton who won his seat from Republican Clay Shaw with 51% of the vote. "I have excellent relations with both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama and they both understand my position. Why would I endorse and risk alienating a group of Democratic voters in a reelection race that promises to be incredibly close...
...official media in the days after the election. And, of course, the turnout was helped by the reformists remaining in the race, hoping to win a strong minority bloc, despite disqualifications by the unelected Guardian Council reducing their numbers to 130 candidates. While they have gained about 40 seats in the provinces, they have so far failed to secure a single seat in the capital. By the time the Tehran votes were counted Monday noon local time, 16 out of 30 seats had gone to candidates of the pro-Ahmadinejad United Principalists' Coalition, with the remainder to be contested...
...evokes Rousseau’s “noble savage,” emerging from the wilderness not as a barbarous or murderous villain but as a simple representation of the primitivist and paternalistic fantasy Europeans held about North America, a fantasy which envisaged the new continent as the seat of an uncorrupted paradise. His arrow pointed down in peace, his gaze forward, the hero of the seal takes on more of a proud association with the elements of native culture rather than an assertion of its inferiority...
CHARLIE CRIST Seat the Delegates Crist, GOP governor of Florida, and Democratic Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm say the best solution is to count the delegates chosen in January...
...hear the big floor announcement in Denver now - just as the roll call vote for the Democratic nomination reaches its climax, the podium recognizes chairman of the huge, 228-seat Texas delegation...