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Iraqi Elections Likely To Fuel Ethnic Tensions, Further Delay Access To Kirkuk’s Reserves

The elections in Iraq on March 7, 2010, are likely to serve as an important indicator of the prospects for a resolution of the long-running dispute over the administration of the ethnically mixed and resource-rich province of Kirkuk in the north of the (...)

8 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

Politics

30 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Politics

No Narcissism in Obama Family - “The One” Has It All !

During the 10AM ET hour of America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told viewers what President Obama watched on election night while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and Virginia : “Robert Gibbs (...)

5 nov. 2009 | | Liberally Conservative

Politics

Election Night Post-Mortem : Victories In Jersey And Virginia, Gingrich Wasn’t Right In New York

Republicans have a lot to be happy about tonight. Obama and the Democrats invested a lot of time and money in backing candidates John Corzine and Creigh Deeds and both of those candidates lost. Corzine in the heavily blue New Jersey to a guy running on a (...)

4 nov. 2009 | 1 comment | Rob Port

Comment

A Remarkable Night

A year ago today, we were told that the GOP was leaderless and dead. Back then and ever since, folks like myself have tried to explain that, with principles, figureheads are unnecessary. A year ago today, we were told that America was no longer a (...)

4 nov. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

Politics

This Big Talker Needs a Muzzle

Moderate talk radio host Michael Smerconish advocates the forced moderation of the Republican Party via changed primary process. At some point during the past nine years, during the course of my journey from the ranks of the clueless and uninformed left (...)

26 oct. 2009 | 4 comments | Jeff Schreiber

Politics

German election : a tough night for the left, where now ?

Hoping for the continuation of the grand coalition was the best the SPD could hope for before yesterday’s Bundestagswahl. In the end the result was even worse than that : 23.1% and a historic low vote for the social democrats. Guido (...)

29 sep. 2009 | | Jon Worth

Politics

No regional presidency race for Brice Hortefeux

In what was hardly the best-kept political secret of the week, the interior minister, Brice Hortfeux, has confirmed that he will not stand as a candidate for the president of the council of Auvergne in next year’s regional elections. He had been (...)

7 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Politics

Le Grand Guinol a l’Indonésien

I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason for this that everyone else knows, and someone will explain it to me, but I was a little surprised by this photo which appeared in today’s New York Times accompanying a very straightforward and (...)

10 Jul. 2009 | | Michael Froomkin

International

Struggle over Election Results Continues in Iran

AP has video of Monday’s enormous rally for Mousavi, which defied a government ban on demonstrations. The USG Open Source Center translates news about the Iranian election and its aftermath from the Iranian press ’Iran’s Guardian (...)

16 jui. 2009 | | Juan Cole

International

Iran : Another 4 years of tyranny to go

With a turnout of 85%, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won the presidential election despite his challenger Hossein Mousavi claiming the results were rigged. Following the results, in which Ahmadinejad would have won by 62.63% against 33.75% for Mousavi, the (...)

15 Jun. 2009 | | Arzum Karasu

Politics

Morocco’s Communal Elections Campaign 2009: Scandals of Corruption

Corruption, in different forms and situations, has become part of Moroccans’ normal life and something common for many of them. For example, whenever there is an official election, the unregulated flow of money into this later is omni-present. (...)

15 Jun. 2009 | | Morocco Times

Comment

UK : Electoral ‘reform’ is back on the agenda : but do we need it ?

In a major Commons statement today (10 June 2009) introducing a national debate on constitutional reform, the prime minister included the system of elections to the House of Commons in his five constitutional topics for debate and possible reform : (...)

11 jui. 2009 | | Brian Barder

Europe

Sarkozy’s European dilemma

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is in a bit of a quandary at the moment as to what to do with the employment minister, Brice Hortefeux. The problem arises from the ruling Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (Union for a Popular Movement, UMP) (...)

9 Jun. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Europe

Low turnout "wins" European elections in France

What to make of how the French voted in the European parliamentary elections? Well at face value the centre-right Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (Union for a Popular Movement, UMP), and Europe Ecologie (Greens) were the big "winners" here (...)

9 Jun. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Media

98 days before the Norwegian election - some social media tendencies

Social media is the big buzz word in the Norwegian election campaign. 2005 was the election year when the parties competed on having the coolest, flashiest website, 2009 is the year when the parties are competing about being everywhere (blogs, Facebook, (...)

8 Jun. 2009 | | Bente Kalsnes

Europe

France: Rachida Dati - set to music

It’s often said that politics and sport shouldn’t be mixed, but when it comes to politics and music it would seem - at least here in France - it’s another matter altogether. Proof if it were needed is the latest buzz surrounding a video (...)

4 Jun. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Europe

Who’s bothering to vote in the European elections?

June 4-7, depending on where you live in the European Union, will see the 27-nation bloc’s circa 380 million eligible voters go to the polls in what’s billed as the "biggest trans-national elections in history". Well that’s (...)

25 May. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Europe

Why voting for a eurosceptic party is a good thing for the EU

I’ve done a lot of UKIP bashing on this blog over the last six years. I’ve ridiculed and attempted to debunk numerous eurosceptic claims. After all, I think that the idea of European Union (in its broadest possible sense) is a good thing, and (...)

25 mai. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

Politics

Bernard Kouchner a French Socialist in UMP clothing?

Ah politics is often the home of the fickle it would appear. And nowhere more so than in France, where the protagonists switch sides and allegiances almost "on a whim" it would seem - or should that read "where they perceive potential for (...)

14 May. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Politics

MAS’ Esam Omeish Seeks Virginia Office

Campaign Mum on MAS Ties, Radical Omeish Speeches. The last time the public got a good look at Esam Omeish, he was resigning from a Virginia immigration panel, claiming that the posting of videos showing him praising Palestinians who chose "the jihad (...)

5 May. 2009 | | The Investigative Project on Terrorism

Comment

Iceland : The same old tobacco and no new pipes

We have elections coming up this weekend and, honestly, just the thought of it makes me tired. Makes me want to crawl into bed and pull the duvet up over my head. I know, I know ; it’s what we wanted, it’s why we took to the streets en masse (...)

21 avr. 2009 | | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

Comment

Why voting is like eating ice cream

In the past I’ve posted about how I believe that voting should be more convenient, and that this could help start a virtuous loop that might lead more young people to vote. Specifically, I’ve lamented that we have a voting system that (...)

9 avr. 2009 | | David Eaves

Politics

South Africa’s election : a tainted victory

The African National Congress will win a fourth consecutive triumph - yet its dominance of South Africa’s electoral arena is crumbling. By Roger Southall. The triumph of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa’s fourth democratic (...)

8 avr. 2009 | | openDemocracy

Politics

Indonesian Youths and Overseas Voters Turn To Internet Ahead of the Election

Indonesian youths don’t talk passionately about local politics, most of them I’ve met even said that they are a confirmed "Golput" (means non-voter). This April, Indonesians will vote for the next president. The internet savvy youth is now (...)

16 Mar. 2009 | | Juliettecharlie

Comment

On the upcoming EU elections

Interest in and turnout for elections is in pretty much direct proportion to how important and likely to have an impact the public perceive them to be. So European election campaigners should be discussing why the elections matter - and come up with some (...)

3 mar. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

Politics

Tomorrow came today

Obama 2009 USA

21 Jan. 2009 | | micmac08USA

Politics

A New President (1988)

Today’s Golden Oldie is from twenty years ago. Back then we were wondering what the President-elect had in store for us when he took office. Back then the President-elect was George Bush (the father) and his Secretary of State was going to be James (...)

20 jan. 2009 | | Yaakov Kirschen

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