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...South Africa Corruption in Chief? With elections months away, Jacob Zuma, leader of South Africa's ruling party, may face a choice between the campaign trail and the courtroom. An appellate court has revived charges against him of corruption, fraud and racketeering. While Zuma is still the heavily favored presidential candidate, the case could complicate his run and any ensuing first term...
...pictures of Hillary Clinton's last days on the campaign trail...
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...
After two years on the campaign trail, during which he tried to relate to the concerns of small-town life, Obama may find it a relief to return to his city roots. He did a decent job of fitting in at local diners and Tastee Freezes. But every so often, the city boy would break loose. One November evening in 2007, Obama stood in a school gym in Grundy Center, Iowa (pop. 2,596), while a woman explained that she didn't think he could protect the country as well as a Republican. "Don't think that I care...
...would also double the funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a program slashed by Bush that seeks to make U.S. manufacturing more efficient by using new technologies. These are two small pieces of the President-elect's massive $150 billion green-jobs plan he touted on the campaign trail that is expected to come later this year or next...