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...Northern Ireland, which sends 17 representatives to Parliament, the election made history. After years of boycotting British ballots, Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone), the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, picked up a seat. The winner, Gerry Adams, campaigned unashamedly in support of the "armed struggle" against British rule. He ended up polling 16,000 votes in his west Belfast district, 6,000 more than the constituency's highly esteemed Member of Parliament, Gerard Fitt, a Catholic. Adams has no intention of taking his newly won seat at Westminster: his party does not recognize Parliament...
...celebrations; Pakistani TV has shown people dancing in the streets and tossing confetti. And Sharif's party appears to be doing well in all urban areas, a welcome surprise for the former Prime Minister. One incumbent belonging to President Pervez Musharraf's Pakistan Muslim League-Qaid (PML-Q), the winner of every election for the past 20 years, has apparently been routed by Nawaz Sharif's candidate. "I think the initial results seem to be quite favorable," Sharif told TIME over the phone. "The trend is good." Fears of vote-rigging, however, are dampening the initial excitement...
...Hillary victory in Texas, by whatever margin, and a close finish, whoever wins, in Ohio and Pennsylvania will leave the delegate count very close. Hillary will have been the winner in four of the five largest states. The tally of the popular vote from all the primaries—including Florida and Michigan—will be extremely close and whomever it favors, Hillary will almost certainly have been the first choice of registered Democrats...
...Articles decrying the possibility that the superdelegates will decide the election are already legion, with the general theme being that the superdelegates should simply confirm the selection of the voters. But what would that mean, in specific terms? Should it be winner take all by state? Proportional by state? Or all the superdelegates simply to the candidate who won the most delegates? Or the winner of the popular vote? Or the winner among registered Democrats? And what about Florida and Michigan in these calculations? In short, either camp can make a “follow-the-voters” argument...
Never mind John McCain and Barack Obama. When it comes to the true winner this week the big mo really belongs to the Big O, which in this case means Ockham. Why are the wheels coming off the Hillary bus? Ockham. Why did Romney sink, Rudy fade and McCain soar? Ockham. Ockham himself, of course, would have to take our word for all this, since he's been dead since...