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2010-07-24 … Union Party was a political party in the United States from 1864 to 1868. It was an alliance between members of the Republican Party who backed incumbent President Abraham Lincoln and Northern Democrats during and after the Civil War.-Establishment:The National Union Party was […] 1865-1871 Robert T. Van …
2010-07-24 … W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position […] Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th …
2010-07-24 … House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983. He ran on an anti-war platform for the Republican nomination for President in 1972 but was defeated by incumbent President […] nbsp;joining the procession en route. McCloskey and fellow Representatives Bella Abzug Bella Abzug Bella Savitsky Abzug was an American …
2010-07-24 … the gauntlet of challenges and survived— setting a precedent for future Vice Presidents. Little could anyone imagine that the second death of an incumbent President was less than a decade away […] Twice in a Decade President Zachary Taylor, like Harrison, took ill while in office. During a long and hot Fourth …
2010-07-24 … 52 […] Levi P. Morton of New York was chosen as his running mate. [ 53 […] Election over Cleveland Harrison\'s opponent in the general election was incumbent President Grover Cleveland . He ran a front-porch campaign , typical of the era, in which the candidate does not campaign but only receives delegations and …
2010-07-24 … of the national legislature), maintained that the house standing on city land had been unlawfully registered under Chienĉs name. Chen Shui-bian, the incumbent president who was then a lawmaker, also demanded the city government retrieve the property. But Ma revealed that actually the Chien couple had built the …
2010-07-25 … a Ku Klux Klan group won 119,115 votes. more The United States election of 1988 featured an open primary for both major parties. Ronald Reagan, the incumbent President, was vacating the position after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Reagan\'s Vice President, George H. W. Bush, …
2010-07-25 … landslide with 61% of the vote and the then-widest popular margin in the 20th century Ą more than 15 million votes (this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon\'s defeat of Senator McGovern in 1972 […] 32 ] Percentage-wise, Johnson\'s popular vote margin of over 22 percentage points is a record …
2010-07-25 … Democratic figures (some of whom had lost the nomination to McGovern). Many refused to support him, with some switching their support to the incumbent President Richard Nixon through a campaign effort called \" Democrats for Nixon […] In addition, McGovern was repeatedly attacked by associates of Nixon, …
2010-07-25 … Democratic figures (some of whom had lost the nomination to McGovern). Many refused to support him, with some switching their support to the incumbent President Richard Nixon through a campaign effort called \" Democrats for Nixon […] In addition, McGovern was repeatedly attacked by associates of Nixon, …
2010-07-25 … put forth as a favorite son candidate in the Democratic presidential nominating conventions in 1876, 1880, and 1884. In 1888, he was selected by the incumbent president, Grover Cleveland , as his vice presidential running mate , because Vice President Thomas Hendricks had died in office. The Cleveland-Thurman …
2010-07-25 … had withdrawn from the race because he believed that only a harmonious convention would produce a Republican candidate strong enough to upset incumbent president Grover Cleveland . Blaine realized that the party was unlikely to choose him without a bitter struggle. After he withdrew, Blaine expressed …
2010-07-25 … Levi P. Morton of New York was chosen as his running mate. [53] [ edit […] Election over Cleveland Harrison\'s opponent in the general election was incumbent President Grover Cleveland . He ran a front-porch campaign , typical of the era, in which the candidate does not campaign but only receives delegations and …
2010-07-25 … .) Landon ran a serious campaign but was […] soundly defeated in the November election by Franklin Delano Roosevelt […] the popular incumbent president. Although he never sought another elective […] office, Alf Landon remained a respected state and national figure, a […] true elder …
2010-07-25 … W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position […] Gore Al Gore Albert Arnold \"Al\" Gore, Jr. is an American environmental activist and former politician who served …
2010-07-25 … W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position […] Gore Al Gore Albert Arnold \"Al\" Gore, Jr. is an American environmental activist and former politician who served …
2010-07-25 … party, Pierce was not renominated at the 1856 presidential election and was replaced by James Buchanan , which is to date the only instance of an incumbent President not to win his party\'s nomination for a second term (with the exception of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon Johnson , who did not …
2010-07-25 … of this speech at the 1992 convention). Despite […] this setback, Bill Clinton prepared for a run in 1992 against […] incumbent president George […] H. W. Bush . In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf […] War, President Bush seemed undefeatable, and …
2010-07-25 … → 1928 November 4, 1924 Previous President Calvin Coolidge Republican The United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent President Calvin Coolidge , the Republican candidate. Coolidge became president in 1923 following the death of then-incumbent president, Warren G. …
2010-07-25 … appearance on The Tonight Show was seen as a good way to defuse the criticism. Despite this setback, Clinton prepared for a run in 1992 against incumbent president George H. W. Bush. In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, President Bush seemed undefeatable, and several potential Democratic candidates – …
2010-07-25 … the 1988 election. Instead he pushed for Maschsactutets Govener Michael Dukakis. By 1992 Clinton was ready to run. He was elected into office over the incumbent President George Hubert Bush. During his time in office he signed The Family and Medical Leave act of 1993, Brady Bill, and expanded the earned income tax …
2010-07-25 … Democrats easily painted Goldwater as a warmonger who would drop atomic bombs on Hanoi. The ploy worked extremely well and during the election, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson inflicted a crushing defeat on Goldwater, winning 61 percent of the vote […] 1971 Medina acquitted of all charges. Captain …
2010-07-25 … appearance on The Tonight Show was seen as a good way to defuse the criticism. Despite this setback, Clinton prepared for a run in 1992 against incumbent president George H. W. Bush . In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War , President Bush seemed undefeatable, and several potential Democratic candidates …
2010-07-25 … that the speech \"had not been my finest hour, not even my finest hour and a half […] Four years later, Clinton prepared for a run in 1992 against incumbent President George H. W. Bush . In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War , Bush seemed unbeatable, and several potential Democratic candidates Ą notably New …
2010-07-25 … victory since 1820 […] 1984 United States presidential election, 1984 The United States presidential election of 1984 was a contest between the incumbent President Ronald Reagan, the Republican candidate, and former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate. Reagan was helped by a strong economic …
2010-07-25 United States presidential election, 1964 November 3, 1964 Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic The United States presidential election of 1964 was the sixth-most lopsided presidential election in the history …
2010-07-25 … convention television appearance. [3 […] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6504289 […] Four years later, Clinton prepared for a run in 1992 against incumbent President George H. W. Bush . In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War , Bush seemed unbeatable, and several potential Democratic candidates — notably …
2010-07-25 … Ohio in 1910, but lost to incumbent Judson Harmon […] U.S. Senator Photo taken between 1918-1920 In 1912, Harding gave the nominating speech for incumbent President William Howard Taft at the Republican National Convention […] 6 ] and in 1914 was elected to the United States Senate , becoming Ohio\'s …
2010-07-25 … 1960 | 50 years ago A record vote was cast in the biennial election of Local 1010 United Steelworkers (Inland Steel Co.) with Peter Calacci, incumbent president, being elected for a third term. Calacci beat out Fred A. Gardner and John Sargent in an unusually close race. One of the questions Valparaiso …
2010-07-25 … half an hour (he joked about the length of this speech at the 1992 convention […] Despite this setback, Clinton prepared for a run in 1992 against incumbent president George H. W. Bush . In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War , President Bush seemed undefeatable, and several potential Democratic candidates …
2010-07-25 … half an hour (he joked about the length of this speech at the 1992 convention […] Despite this setback, Clinton prepared for a run in 1992 against incumbent president George H. W. Bush . In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War , President Bush seemed undefeatable, and several potential Democratic candidates …
2010-07-25 … over an hour (he joked about the length of this speech at the 1992 convention […] Despite this setback, Clinton prepared for a run in 1992 against incumbent president George H. W. Bush . In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War , President Bush seemed undefeatable, and several potential Democratic candidates …
2010-07-25 … over an hour (he joked about the length of this speech at the 1992 convention […] Despite this setback, Clinton prepared for a run in 1992 against incumbent president George H. W. Bush . In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War , President Bush seemed undefeatable, and several potential Democratic candidates …
2010-07-25 … W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position […] nbsp; Florida recount Florida election recount The Florida election recount of 2000 was a period of vote re-counting …
2010-07-25 … victory for democracy? Page one says, �Ukraine is reaching the boiling point as its Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich- suported by the Kremlin and the incumbent President Leonid Kuchma- has won the presidential elections with the support of Central and Eastern Ukraine�s voters […] Opposition candidate Viktor …
2010-07-25 … W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position […] Gore Al Gore Albert Arnold \"Al\" Gore, Jr. is an American environmental activist and former politician who served …
2010-07-25 … UP Business Ad Professor Jose Aliling IV, ex UP […] Alumni Association of Berkeley President Ceny Alfonso-Duldulao, Romi […] Beza, incumbent President of the Berkeley Alumni Association and all […] past presidents of this multi-awardee UP alumni association; Ted […] Aquino, …
2010-07-25 … speculating went on; there was talk about Stevenson and others, but [41] HESS: Is it difficult for a party not to give its nomination to […] the incumbent President if he so wants it? ROWE: I\'ve always thought it was impossible. But it has happened, I […] think. I\'m almost certain it happened with …
2010-07-25 … When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president, Hoover had to be reminded that liberalism not only was not a crime, but was the politics of the incumbent president and his administration. The FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opened on November 24 , 1932 …
2010-07-25 … election of 1948 is considered by most historians as the greatest election upset in American history. Virtually every prediction indicated that incumbent President Harry S. Truman would be defeated by Republican Thomas E. Dewey. Truman won, overcoming a three-way […] as the Democratic presidential nominee, …
2010-07-25 … When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president, Hoover had to be reminded that liberalism not only was not a crime, but was the politics of the incumbent president and his administration. The FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opened on November 24 , 1932 …
2010-07-25 … socialist). When Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, Hoover had to be reminded that liberalism not only was not a crime, but was the politics of the incumbent president and his administration. The FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab ) officially opened on November 24 , …
2010-07-25 … When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president, Hoover had to be reminded that liberalism not only was not a crime, but was the politics of the incumbent president and his administration. The FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab ) officially opened on November 24 , …
2010-07-26 … railroads. 4 Nov. Republican Ronald Reagan is elected president of the United States with 51.6 percent of the popular vote to 41.7 percent for incumbent president Jimmy Carter and 6.7 percent for third-party candidate John Anderson […] 1981 […] 20 Jan. The Iran hostages are freed. Ronald Reagan is …
2010-07-26 … House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983. He ran on an anti-war platform for the Republican nomination for President in 1972 but was defeated by incumbent President […] Republican 1967 Retiring […] Ed Zschau Ed Zschau Edwin Van Wyck Zschau represented California\'s 12th District in the United States …
2010-07-26 … process. Those U.S. citizens who actually do exercise their rights of political expression in this democracy are noticeably angry. Since 1992 an incumbent president and the entrenched Congress, Republican and Democrats alike, have been ejected unceremoniously from power. The American people — …
2010-07-26 … Indiana Gov. Roger D. Branigin, running as a favorite son, and U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy, whose strong showing in the New Hampshire primary against incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson – along with Kennedy’s entrance into the race – had helped convince Johnson to abandon his re-election effort. …
2010-07-26 … and order\". It is sometimes considered to be a […] NOMINATIONS […] Democratic Party nomination […] Senator […] was first to challenge the incumbent President […] running for the Democratic nomination as an […] candidate and achieving early success with a surprisingly strong second place finish in the […] …
2010-07-26 … and order\". It is sometimes considered to be a […] NOMINATIONS […] Democratic Party nomination […] Senator […] was first to challenge the incumbent President […] running for the Democratic nomination as an […] candidate and achieving early success with a surprisingly strong second place finish in the […] …
2010-07-26 … W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position […] Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th …
2010-07-26 … When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president, Hoover had to be reminded that liberalism not only was not a crime, but was the politics of the incumbent president and his administration. The FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab ) officially opened on November 24 , …
2010-07-26 … when he carried every county but one. This time1 the head of the Democratic ticket in California was not a Socialist pamphleteer. He was a popular incumbent President. My father won easily in the primary election. He came in first, followed by a third-party candidate who supported the Townsend Program for old-age …
2010-07-26 … ticket and on becoming president in 1841, broke with that party. His term as Vice President began on March 4, 1841 and one month later, on April 4, incumbent President William Henry Harrison died of what is today believed to have been viral pneumonia. Harrison\'s death left Tyler, the federal government, and the …
2010-07-26 … each other. [ 34 ] Taft won the mere eight electoral votes of Utah and Vermont , making his the single worst defeat in American history for an incumbent President seeking reelection; he finished not even second, but third, behind both Wilson and Roosevelt. [ 35 ] In spite of his failure to be re-elected, …
2010-07-26 NATIONAL POLITICS: 1962 ELECTIONS Democrats Hold Their Own In off-year elections the party of the incumbent president customarily loses seats in Congress. In 1962 Republicans went after Kennedy's record—charging that he had fumbled on foreign policy …
2010-07-26 … each other. [ 34 ] Taft won the mere eight electoral votes of Utah and Vermont , making his the single worst defeat in American history for an incumbent President seeking reelection; he finished not even second, but third, behind both Wilson and Roosevelt. [ 35 ] In spite of his failure to be re-elected, …
2010-07-26 … of the United States. Taft won the mere eight electoral votes of Utah and Vermont , making it the single worst defeat in American history for an incumbent President seeking re-election. The State of Utah (ˈjuːtɔː or) is a western state of the United States. Vermont ( is a state in the New England region of …
2010-07-26 … and on becoming president in 1841, broke with that party. His term as Vice President began on March 4 , 1841 and one month later, on April 4, incumbent President William Henry Harrison died of what is today believed to have been viral pneumonia . Harrison\'s death left Tyler, the federal government , and …
2010-07-26 … and on becoming president in 1841, broke with that party. His term as Vice President began on March 4 , 1841 and one month later, on April 4, incumbent President William Henry Harrison died of what is today believed to have been viral pneumonia . Harrison\'s death left Tyler, the federal government , and …
2010-07-26 … for the 1984 presidential election United States presidential election, 1984 The United States presidential election of 1984 was a contest between the incumbent President Ronald Reagan, the Republican candidate, and former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate. Reagan was helped by a strong economic …
2010-07-26 … W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position […] Gore Al Gore Albert Arnold \"Al\" Gore, Jr. is an American environmental activist and former politician who served …
2010-07-26 … […] Information originated by the incumbent President or the incumbent Vice President; the incumbent President\'s White House Staff or the incumbent Vic […] …
2010-07-26 … convention delegations loyal to Taft. By the time the convention began, Taft\'s selection was nearly determined. Against the power of a popular incumbent president, Fairbanks never had a chance. Roosevelt could hardly conceal his scorn for Fairbanks. The president liked to tell amusing stories about his …
2010-07-26 … Democratic Primaries During the winter of 1955, many liberals in the Democratic Party consider a possible run for the nomination, thus challenging incumbent President Albert 'Happy' Chandler. One potential challenger to the President is former Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson. However in early …
2010-07-27 … W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position […] Gore Al Gore Albert Arnold \"Al\" Gore, Jr. is an American environmental activist and former politician who served …
2010-07-27 … W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position... Al Gore Albert Arnold \"Al\" Gore, Jr. is an American environmental activist and former politician who served as the …
2010-07-30 … the first Democratic National Convention held at the City of Miami Beach, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota was nominated to run against incumbent President Richard M. Nixon […] TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY JULY 14 […] 1832 Congress appoints a committee of three men to …
2010-07-31 … Democratic figures (some of whom had lost the nomination to McGovern). Many refused to support him, with some switching their support to the incumbent President Richard Nixon through a campaign effort called " Democrats for Nixon ". In addition, McGovern was repeatedly attacked by associates of …
2010-07-31 … W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position […] Gore Al Gore Albert Arnold \"Al\" Gore, Jr. is an American environmental activist and former politician who served …
2010-08-03 … The United States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It pitted incumbent President Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate, against the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic […] nbsp;(but lost …
2010-08-05 … to the United States Senate . He took office as Senator from New York on January 3, 1965. 1 The approach of the 1968 presidential election saw the incumbent president, Lyndon B. Johnson , serving during a period of social unrest. There were riots in the major cities despite Johnson\'s attempts to introduce …
2010-08-06 … the man to occupy our most powerful office. Newsprint expended on Senator Goldwater and the other candidate in the 1964 presidential election, incumbent President Johnson, would fill hundreds of shelves. As might be expected, not all that appeared in print was laudatory or was true; deadline pressures, editing …
2010-08-06 … Zubizarreta went on to work as a radio and television commentator. On 2 July 2010, Zubizarreta was named director of football for Barcelona by incumbent President Sandro Rosell , taking over for Txiki Begiristain […] edit […] External links 1976: Miguel Ángel […] 1977: Juanito […] 1978: …
2010-08-06 … Acts passed by antiăFrench Revolution Federalists. Sedition Act prosecutions of Jeffersonian newspaper editors aided Jefferson \'s 1800 defeat of incumbent president John Adams. Considering the acts unconstitutional, Jefferson refused to enforce convictions. The acts soon expired. The Supreme Court had no …
2010-08-07 … 1409 (1947).n12 The two questions presented in the certiorari petition are: \"1. Whether the litigation of a private civil damages action against an incumbent President must in all but the most exceptional cases be deferred until the President leaves office\"; and \"2. Whether a district court, as a proper exercise …
2010-08-07 … […] 12 The two questions presented in the certiorari petition are: "1. Whether the litigation of a private civil damages action against an incumbent President must in all but the most exceptional cases be deferred until the President leaves office"; and "2. Whether a district court, as a proper …
2010-08-07 … over a period of time that affected the election to some degree […] 56 ] President Ford\'s 1976 election campaign had the advantage that he was an incumbent President during several anniversary events held during the period leading up to the United States Bicentennial . The Washington, D.C. fireworks display on …
2010-08-08 … landslide with 61% of the vote and the then-widest popular margin in the 20th century Ą more than 15 million votes (this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon\'s defeat of Senator McGovern in 1972). 34 Percentage-wise, Johnson\'s popular vote margin of over 22 percentage points is a record that …
2010-08-08 … landslide with 61% of the vote and the then-widest popular margin in the 20th century � more than 15 million votes (this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon\'s defeat of Senator McGovern in 1972 […] 34 ] Percentage-wise, Johnson\'s popular vote margin of over 22 percentage points is a record …
2010-08-08 … landslide with 61% of the vote and the then-widest popular margin in the 20th century � more than 15 million votes (this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon\'s defeat of Senator McGovern in 1972 […] 34 ] Percentage-wise, Johnson\'s popular vote margin of over 22 percentage points is a record …
2010-08-09 … nation in every election since 1904 with two exceptions: in 1956 when they voted for Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois over the winner, incumbent President Dwight Eisenhower of Kansas , and in 2008 when they voted for Senator John McCain of Arizona over national winner Senator Barack …
2010-08-09 … ANS: NO U.S. v. Isaacs, 493 F.2d 1124 (C.A.7 (Ill.), 1974) Discussion of Executive Privilege and Immunity from Prosecution Criminal Prosecution of an Incumbent President The most interesting discussion is in the case of U.S. v. Isaacs, wherein the 7th. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of former Gov. …
2010-08-10 … feud between them was intense. The case can only be understood against the background of the election of 1800, in which Thomas Jefferson defeated the incumbent president, John Adams, and his Democrat-Republican party also gained control of the Congress. In those days, there was a long lame duck period between the …
2010-08-10 … and the use of death squads against political reformers. He is often described as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\'s spiritual mentor, though at times, even the incumbent president has been too moderate for him. When Ahmadinejad tried to change the law to allow women to attend soccer matches, he was publicly rebuked by Yazdi. …
2010-08-10 … Nov 2009 […] Italy recalls 400 soldiers it had sent to watch security around the Afghan election following the uncontested but disputed victory by the incumbent president […] quot;We said the troops would stay until the end of the election process, which has now been reached, so now we are staring their gradual …
2010-08-12 … as a \"cost cutting measure […] nbsp […] MARCH 17) Chicago Teachers Union member claims he was \"retaliated against\" for trying to run against the incumbent president […] nbsp […] MARCH 17) Negotiating sessions planned between administrators, teachers union in Elgin school district […] nbsp […] MARCH 17) …
2010-08-12 … officials have been careful not to take sides in public statements on the hotly contested multi-candidate race, led by incumbent Iranian President Mahmoud […] Merry Christmas […] Ahmadinejad and the relatively-moderate former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi. But they have made no effort to …
2010-08-14 … material . D deKooning, Elaine portrait of John F. Kennedy: Given to the Truman Library because of President Truman\'s desire to have a portrait of the incumbent President in a prominent place in the Library. Dogs: See \"pets.\" Doodles: President Kennedy was an inveterate doodler, covering sheets of paper …
2010-08-14 … figuratively criminal. Gill OĉTeen […] 12.31.09 @ 11:53AM When is it going to dawn on the incompetent-in-chief that THE EVIL BUSH is neither the incumbent president nor his opponent in 4 Yo (2012 A.D)? On January 20, 1 Yo (2009 A.D.) at noon, Dubya became just another citizen and retired rancher. At that …
2010-08-14 … of King Farouk below: freemason certificate (courtesy Omar Hamed Zaki […] Last month in Jordan a prestigious lineup of Western leaders led by incumbent President Clinton and three former US presidents paid their last respects to King Hussein. While all kinds of deductions as to why they had all turned up were …
2010-08-14 … in 1952 and 1968 when America was mired in apparently unwinnable wars in Korea and Vietnam. Little wonder they did not want to have much to do with the incumbent president. The main competitors for the 1952 nomination were the Illinois governor, Adlai Stevenson, who had been an aide to the secretary of the navy in …
2010-08-14 … 1948 Democratic National Convention , the party platform reflected this division and contained only platitudes in favor of civil rights. Though the incumbent President Harry S Truman had already issued a detailed 10-point Civil Rights Program calling for aggressive federal action on the issue of civil rights, …
2010-08-14 … […] POLITICS-RWANDA: \"Climate of Repression\" as Voting Concludes […] As voting concluded in Rwanda\'s presidential elections, with incumbent President Paul Kagame expected to win by a landslide, fears remain that not all citizens will accept the results amidst claims the elections were neither free …
2010-08-14 … soon.\" However, according to the chairman of the Interior Ministry\'s Electoral Commission, Kamran Daneshjoo, with the majority of votes counted, the incumbent president had taken a seemingly unassailable lead. And so it was. Ahmadinejad won. By a lot. Some said by too much. It didn\'t take long before …
2010-08-14 … election, in an opinion piece published in the Washington Post just after the election: Many experts are claiming that the margin of victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the result of fraud or manipulation, but our nationwide public opinion survey of Iranians three weeks before the vote …
2010-08-14 … to pave the path to revolution. Battle Over Communist Ideas In D.C. Union Election WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 6 — PLP member Mike Golash, the incumbent president of Local 689 of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), narrowly lost his re-election bid by an (uncertified) vote of 1,199 to 1,046. Over 2,200 voted …
2010-08-15 … in part by Ted Sorensen, who had been his brotherĉs speechwriter: ČI do not lightly dismiss the dangers and the difficulties of challenging an incumbent President. But these are not ordinary times and this is not an ordinary election. At stake is not simply the leadership of our party and even our country. It …
2010-08-15 … surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than the main left candidate, Lionel Jospin. Le Pen lost in the second round to incumbent president Jacques Chirac. Le Pen again ran in the 2007 French presidential ele... Heath Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979 � January 22, 2008) was an Australian …
2010-08-15 … presidential candidateĄformer president Theodore Roosevelt , running as a Progressive in 1912 Ąhas won as much as 20% of the popular vote. The incumbent president, Republican George W. Bush , is the 43rd president in the country\'s history . All U.S. presidents to date have been white men. If Democrat …
2010-08-15 … a deep interest in this election, which has pitted current president mahmoud against popular reformist candidate mir hossein mousavi. hardline incumbent president mahmoud and hossein mousavi, a reformist who favors greater freedoms and improved ties with united states. with choice that left nation divided and …
2010-08-15 … 1910, but lost to incumbent Judson Harmon […] edit […] U.S. Senator Photo taken between 1918-1920 In 1912, Harding gave the nominating speech for incumbent President William Howard Taft at the Republican National Convention […] 8 ] and in 1914 was elected to the United States Senate , becoming Ohio\'s …
2010-08-15 … the American Civil War, which culminated in the candidacy of George McClellan for President of the United States as a \"Peace Democrat\" against incumbent President Abraham Lincoln. The outlines of the anti-war stance are seen: the argument that the costs of maintaining the present conflict are not worth the …
2010-08-15 … took place on April 8, 2004. For the first time since independence, the presidential race was democratically contested through to the end. Besides incumbent President Bouteflika, five other candidates, including one woman, competed in the election. Opposition candidates complained of some discrepancies in the …
2010-08-15 … the architect of their bloody but successful campaign against the Tamil Tigers last year, sparked fears of a widespread crackdown on opponents of the incumbent president, Mahindra Rajapakse […] 2010/02/09 […] BBC News - Sri Lanka election loser Sarath Fonseka arrested […] …
2010-08-15 … for his service. All Americans can be proud of Mr Obama\'s \"journey\", which is a \"triumph of the American story\", Mr Bush adds […] 1517 The incumbent president, George W Bush, is expected to give a statement soon on Mr Obama\'s victory […] What do we do now? We do what we\'ve always done. We stand up for …
2010-08-15 … […] 37.4 […] Many justices have reached this court precisely because they were friends of the incumbent president or other senior officials,\" the justice sniffs […] 37.5 […] I never hunted in the same blind as the vice …
2010-08-15 … to the National Rainbow Coalition . Kenya exploded into violence following a disputed election in December 2007 in which the government proclaimed incumbent president Mwai Kibaki had defeated Raila Odinga, leader of the Orange Democratic Movement, by 4.58m votes to 4.35m. [8] Wide civil strife displaced over …
2010-08-15 … Election in Jeopardy […] October 31, 2009 by The closely-watched runoff election in Afghanistan appears to be in jeopardy as the challenger to the incumbent president is signaling that he may call for a boycott at the polls. Mandy Clark reports […] Doug Bandow: Recognizing the Limits of American …
2010-08-15 … watch Iran stress that the outcome is unlikely to have any impact on Teheran's continued race toward nuclear power. Whether the winner is incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or his reformist challenger, the former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, the consensus in the Israeli defense establishment …
2010-08-15 … hanged two murderers when he served as public executioner of Oneida County NY. In 1912, Woodrow Wilson defeated two presidents in one election - incumbent President William Howard Taft, and former President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1933, for the first time in history, all the members of the Electoral College were …
2010-08-15 … over where we are heading and […] what we want to accomplish. I do not lightly […] dismiss the dangers and the difficulties of challenging an incumbent […] President. But these are not ordinary times and this is not an ordinary […] election. At stake is not […] simply the leadership of our party and even our …
2010-08-15 … like President Clinton in 1994, has […] seen his approval ratings fall below 50 percent which is generally […] considered the danger zone for an incumbent president and his party […] Pew 6/17 […] Obama More Popular […] Abroad Than At Home […] President Barack …
2010-08-16 … ineptitude, and illegal and criminal activities of all four candidates, on June 12, 2009, the Iranian people went to the polls, challenging not only the incumbent president Ahmadinejad, but the entire establishment of the Islamic regime. Iran\'s elections are considered extremely unfair and the Islamist government does …
2010-08-16 … the Kiev events with such arguments as this: \'Nor is there much evidence to imagine that, were he [the opposition candidate, Viktor Yushchenko] the incumbent president facing a severe challenge, he would not have tried to falsify the poll.\' Unpick that contorted hypothetical if you can . "In between, we …
2010-08-16 … in his second term as a Cook County Board Member and lost a close Democratic Primary race for Cook County Board President in 2006 to then three-term incumbent President (and now deceased) John Stroger. Topics discussed on this episode of "Public Affairs," include whether Chicago Tribune columnist is right …
2010-08-16 … term in office in a poll set for November, his party spokesman said. The Democratic and Social Republican Party (PRDS), led by Ould Taya, appointed the incumbent president as its candidate to contest the first round of the election on November 7. The decision was taken at the end of an extraordinary congress that …
2010-08-16 … mood. GHW Bush looked invulnerable in the wake of the Gulf War; but it took a relatively mild recession to leave him with the lowest percentage an incumbent president received in 80 years. And the GW Bush years had some spikes during the GWOT, but only the Rove campaign in \'04 produced some stability; …
2010-08-16 … American life, and bring about the downfall of communism Ąwhat he called \"the evil empire.\" Arguably, he achieved all his goals. Reagan defeated incumbent President Jimmy Carter in an unexpected landslide victory to win the 1980 presidential election, restoring Republican control to the Senate after 26 years. …
2010-08-16 … remarkable articulateness and refreshing charm […] Second, this is a uniquely open race. Not since 1952 has there been a presidential election with no incumbent president or vice president running. Right now there is no serious challenger to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. The Democrats\' quadrennial …
2010-08-17 … on December 27, votersĉ concerns over policy were swept aside by fears for their lives. The turmoil began with reports that the electionĄin which incumbent president Mwai Kibaki, a Kikuyu (Kenyaĉs largest tribe), defeated opposition candidate Raila Odinga, a LuoĄhad been fixed. There were accusations of voter …
2010-08-17 … […] shugufakabul […] Offline […] Send Email […] nbsp […] Karzai pledges to form narcotics ministry KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan\'s incumbent president Hamid Karzai told British Prime Minister Tony Blair Sunday he will set up a ministry for narcotics, amid expectations of another major boom in opium …
2010-08-17 … testify on matters of policy […] Leading up to the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, Rice became the first National Security Advisor to campaign for an incumbent president. She used this occasion to express her belief that Saddam Hussein\'s government in Iraq contributed to circumstances that produced terrorism like …
2010-08-17 … become virtually nonexistent. [ 41 ] Leading up to the 2004 presidential election , Rice became the first National Security Advisor to campaign for an incumbent president. She stated that while: \"Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the actual attacks on America, Saddam Hussein\'s Iraq was a part of the Middle East …
2010-08-17 … gonna stay at the Pond House and fish. Carter: This election means a lot to our country […] Narrator: Carter began the fall campaign against incumbent President Gerald Ford with a fifteen-point lead. Carter: We\'ve been disappointed, disillusioned, we\'ve been kept out of government. We\'ve been …
2010-08-18 … vice-president in 1946 election , consequently the second and last for the Commonwealth and first for the third republic . After the death of the incumbent president Manuel Roxas in 1948, he succeeded the presidency. In what was claimed to be a dishonest and fraudulent [ 1 […] 1949 presidential election , he …
2010-08-18 … vice-president in 1946 election , consequently the second and last for the Commonwealth and first for the third republic . After the death of the incumbent president Manuel Roxas in 1948, he succeeded the presidency. In what was claimed to be a dishonest and fraudulent [ 1 […] 1949 presidential election , he …
2010-08-18 … that the president will be moving into the presidential palace. But the question that I want to ask is that was the presidential palace built for the incumbent president or it was built for the incoming president that the country was going to elect at polls come December 2008. When the minister made the …
2010-08-18 … by the victorious. This explains […] why so many people are willing to believe the lies told to them […] every time an incumbent president leads us into war, references […] a bogus treaty and kisses the ass of a foreign tyrant. In Assume […] the Position, …
2010-08-19 … and vice presidential candidates have a commitment to pursue a pro-people agenda. \"We have seen the huge crimes that they have committed. SBY [incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono], [vice presidential candidates] Prabowo [Subianto] and Wiranto are responsible for the massive number of human rights …
2010-08-19 … at a Friday meeting in New York with Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta, a US official told the newspaper. Based on preliminary results, incumbent president Karzai has 54.6 per cent of the votes declared valid, against 27.8 per cent for ex-foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah. The result however will not …
2010-08-19 … , Public Broadcasting Service , the Los Angeles Times and others. Rahimi is skeptical of the government-announced results indicating that incumbent President Ahmadinejad had won re-election, but he has also maintained scholarly detachment in reporting his observations and fact-finding. For …
2010-08-19 … were enough to garner 435 electoral votes. Roosevelt had 88 electoral votes to Taft\'s 8 electoral votes. (This meant that Taft became the only incumbent President in history to actually come in third place in an attempt to be re-elected.) But Pennsylvania was Roosevelt\'s only Eastern state; in the Midwest …
2010-08-19 … who prospered under a former president, Daniel arap Moi, saying no. See article Early results of an election in Rwanda on August 9th suggested that the incumbent president, Paul Kagame, would win more than 90% of the votes in his bid for a second seven-year term. His opponents said he had made it hard, if not …
2010-08-19 … […] Electoral observers say elections were held in an organised and peaceful way, a day after Rwanda went to polls and were expected to return incumbent president Paul Kagame for a second, seven-year term.Rwandan President Paul Kagame looks set to win after provisional results o showed he had won 93 percent of …
2010-08-19 … of the results of the first turn of the presidential elections, the Čcommunicationsč people of Jean-Pierre Bemba, the most formidable contender to the incumbent president Joseph Kabila, produced a narrative of the country on their party-owned television network ČCanal Congo TVč (CCTV). They brought on the set this …
2010-08-19 … Muslim backing, Odinga (who does business with a wealthy Saudi donor to Osama bin Laden) was defeated in the December 2007 election. But he accused the incumbent president of rigging the vote and incited his supporters to riot in protest. Over the next month, some 1,500 Kenyans were killed and more than 500,000 …
2010-08-27 … Movement. Followers of Odinga, a member of the minority Luo tribe, have perpetrated horrific atrocities against members of the Kikuyu tribe because incumbent President Mwai Kibaki and the nation’s ruling elite are Kikuyu. One of the worst incidents occurred in the village of Eldoret, where dozens of Kikuyu …
2010-08-28 … conservatives based on a protectionist economic policy and isolationist foreign policy. Nonetheless, his vote totals showed the vulnerability of the incumbent President and the anger of his conservative base. This anger at Bush was sustained through the general election. In the general election, Bush received a …
2010-08-28 … of 1800, parties had formed. The Democratic Republicans rallied behind Thomas Jefferson. The Federalists, who supported Hamilton\'s ideas, backed incumbent president John Adams. Jefferson won. America now had two parties. Why not more […] MR. STEVEN ROSENSTONE: The rules of the game are stacked against third …
2010-08-28 … is in charge. Under our Constitution, only the incumbent is in charge until January 20 of next year. During this time you should not seek to advise the incumbent President, either privately or publicly. You should not endorse what his plans are, much less attack what his plans are, even though many of them are …
2010-08-28 … he pledged that his administration would emphasize economics, rather than the political identity of Taiwan, a marked departure from the approach of the incumbent president, Mr. Chen Shui-bian. This return to pragmatism in Taipei is welcome. Mr. Chen’s eight-year tenure was a combative term. He was elected on a …
2010-08-28 … Democratic figures (some of whom had lost the nomination to McGovern). Many refused to support him, with some switching their support to the incumbent President Richard Nixon through a campaign effort called \" Democrats for Nixon […] In addition, McGovern was repeatedly attacked by associates of Nixon, …
2010-08-28 … back to another convention, in another city, in another year. Forty years ago this summer, the Democratic party met in Atlantic City to nominate the incumbent President, Lyndon Johnson, for another term. Nobody knew it then, but that 1964 Democratic National Convention would be a turning point for the party. It was …
2010-08-28 … will depend on how he captains the ship which is taking on water at an alarming rate. So Romney is running again in 2012. He is not even sworn in, the incumbent president is out of sight in regard to solving problems and these wonderful republicans already start their usual tactics. As President – Elect Obama …
2010-08-28 … […] posted by loquax at 2:22 PM on October 31, 2007 […] Gore wasn\'t running in 2004 […] Yeah, and you know why? Because he wasn\'t the incumbent president as he was supposed to be. Thank you, Nader […] posted by found missing at 2:23 PM on October 31, 2007 […] It\'s mind blowing just …
2010-08-28 … US. The controversy over Mr Fahim, defence minister in Mr Karzai\'s last government, is yet another sign of rising tension between Washington and the incumbent president. The Independent revealed this week how Richard Holbrooke, the American envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, clashed with Mr Karzai over his choice of …
2010-08-28 … Armies. 1929. youĉll see the family album with photographs of Lynda and Luci and their families. Mrs. but also a landslide victory that stunned the incumbent president himself. The baby boom was in full swing. 1 8 c h a p T e r 1 1 : T h e a g e o f i n d u s T r y. 1814. Lincoln pushed for the Thirteenth …
2010-08-28 … a deep interest in this election, which has pitted current president mahmoud against popular reformist candidate mir hossein mousavi. hardline incumbent president mahmoud and hossein mousavi, a reformist who favors greater freedoms and improved ties with united states. with choice that left nation divided and …
2010-08-28 … has been ahead in the polls for several months. An Odinga victory would mark the first time in Kenyaâ™s short history of multi-party democracy that an incumbent president had been ejected at an election. Barney Jopson, FT East Africa Correspondent, and journalists from the Guardian, the Independent and the Washington …
2010-08-28 … ) between the two candidates is not a function of their respective levels of character, but of the strategic requirements of the campaign. As an incumbent President, Bush is already a well-known quantity....Kerry, far less so. Kerry is a \"blank slate\", and his image has yet to be defined. As a result, both …
2010-08-28 … frictions between the different ethnic groups in Kenya.\" The officially-declared results of the 27 December presidential poll - giving victory to incumbent President Mwai Kibaki over opposition rival Raila Odinga - unleashed a wave of violence. More NAIROBI, Kenya Ą Kenya always thought of itself as special, …
2010-09-02 … prospered under a former president, Daniel arap Moi, saying no. [pub. 15/08] Early results of an election in Rwanda on August 9th suggested that the incumbent president, Paul Kagame, would win more than 90% of the votes in his bid for a second seven-year term. His opponents said he had made it hard, if not …
2010-09-02 … Institute, May 27, 2009 […] Preparations for the upcoming Presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan resemble any other in Central Asia. The incumbent President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has shown no sign of willingness to give up office, while the opposition is not able to create a viable challenge to the regime. …
2010-09-02 … slime...Un american Americans....war is hell body count mount […] bobcatclay […] Offline […] nbsp;According to published results, incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defeated Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The election was June 12, 2009. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the house favorite […] …
2010-09-02 … the U.S. should tell South Vietnam […] Shape up or we\'re going to ship out […] 38 ] Ted initially advised his brother Robert against challenging the incumbent President Johnson for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 presidential election […] 20 ] Once Eugene McCarthy \'s strong showing in the New Hampshire …
2010-09-03 … commandos as the honour guard and pallbearers and Commander of Group II Kopassus Surakarta Lt.Colonel Asep Subarkah. [ 87 ] In attendance were the incumbent president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as \"Ceremony Inspector\", and vice-president, government ministers, and armed forces chiefs of staff. Tens of thousands …
2010-09-03 … prospered under a former president, Daniel arap Moi, saying no. [pub. 15/08] Early results of an election in Rwanda on August 9th suggested that the incumbent president, Paul Kagame, would win more than 90% of the votes in his bid for a second seven-year term. His opponents said he had made it hard, if not …
2010-09-03 … commandos as the honour guard and pallbearers and Commander of Group II Kopassus Surakarta Lt.Colonel Asep Subarkah. [ 87 ] In attendance were the incumbent president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as \"Ceremony Inspector\", and vice-president, government ministers, and armed forces chiefs of staff. Tens of thousands …
2010-09-03 … commandos as the honour guard and pallbearers and Commander of Group II Kopassus Surakarta Lt.Colonel Asep Subarkah. [ 87 ] In attendance were the incumbent president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as \"Ceremony Inspector\", and vice-president, government ministers, and armed forces chiefs of staff. Tens of thousands …
2010-09-03 … In the first round of voting on Jan. 20, ultra-nationalist candidate Tomislav Nikolic won the most votes, 1.6 million or 39.4% of the ballots cast. The incumbent President, pro-Western Boris Tadic, came in second with 35.4% or 1.4 million votes. The contest is now headed for a Feb. 3 runoff.Even if Nikolic wins the …
2010-09-03 … by a recent split, getting out the vote is seen as crucial in a race where turnout, rather than victory, will be the measure of satisfaction with incumbent President Armando Guebuza and Frelimo, the party that has governed Mozambique since independence in 1975 […] Guebuza\'s biggest opponent is going to be voter …
2010-09-03 … Kravchuk Urges Yushchenko To Resign […] KIEV, Ukraine -- Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of an independent Ukraine, has called on incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko to resign and call early presidential elections […] Lavrynovych: Yushchenko\'s Impeachment Before Next Presidential …
2010-09-03 … presidents in the three years following his resignation. Voters, too, are throwing their weight around: in choosing Mr Yudhoyono, they rejected the incumbent president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, and the big parties that supported her. The courts, which used to follow the regime\'s bidding, have won complete …
2010-09-03 … prospered under a former president, Daniel arap Moi, saying no. [pub. 15/08] Early results of an election in Rwanda on August 9th suggested that the incumbent president, Paul Kagame, would win more than 90% of the votes in his bid for a second seven-year term. His opponents said he had made it hard, if not …
2010-09-03 … prospered under a former president, Daniel arap Moi, saying no. [pub. 15/08] Early results of an election in Rwanda on August 9th suggested that the incumbent president, Paul Kagame, would win more than 90% of the votes in his bid for a second seven-year term. His opponents said he had made it hard, if not …
2010-09-03 … prospered under a former president, Daniel arap Moi, saying no. [pub. 15/08] Early results of an election in Rwanda on August 9th suggested that the incumbent president, Paul Kagame, would win more than 90% of the votes in his bid for a second seven-year term. His opponents said he had made it hard, if not …
2010-09-04 … from 1981-89 during a defensive war against Saddam Hussein\'s Iraq. He re-entered the political arena after nearly 20 years to stand against the incumbent President Ahmadinejad in the crucial presidential election. The Interior Ministry declared him the runner-up with about 33 percent of the votes and the …
2010-09-04 … Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, May 27, 2009 Preparations for the upcoming Presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan resemble any other in Central Asia. The incumbent President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has shown no sign of willingness to give up office, while the opposition is not able to create a viable challenge to the regime. …
2010-09-04 … to be President of the United States […] I am afraid to start that thing going.\" In 1900 however, the Republicans already had a candidate in incumbent President William McKinley. Few doubted that Roosevelt would be a candidate in 1904; the problem was what he should do until then. Even if Roosevelt were …
2010-09-05 … investigated by President Corazon Aquino for corruptly amassing a fortune. The Philippine political arena sees powerful families such as those of the incumbent president Aquino, candidates Estrada, Villar and Marcos occupy governorships and both houses of the legislature. It would seem that cozy relationships remain …
2010-09-05 … others by tampering with people’s minds through threats, harassment and intimidation. Of course, the turnout and the margin of the victory of the incumbent president are suspiciously high, but the main problem with Sunday’s presidential elections is not so much that the regime may have cheated in the ballot …
2010-09-05 … in the first round of the presidential elections, following which he supported Giscard. However, throughout the election, he said that he supported the incumbent president \'in a private capacity\'. Finally, Mitterrand won and was elected as the president. Following this, Chirac appeared as the principal leader of the …
2010-09-06 … she joined faded as questions arose of her and her husband\'s finances. In the general election, Mondale and Ferraro were defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush. Ferraro ran campaigns for a seat in the United States Senate from New York in 1992 and 1998, …
2010-09-06 … military dictatorship under Gen. Pervez Musharraf, accused Tehran of unfair elections. There are many questions about Iranĉs vote, of which incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won by 60%. Voter turnout was an amazing 84%, putting to shame the US and Europe, where less than half of voters exercise their …
2010-09-06 … in poppy farms in the Kandahar area. Sherzai was mentioned as a potential presidential candidate in the 2009 elections, but dropped out to support the incumbent President Karzai. Ahmad Wali Karzai and Mahmoud Karzai Position: Kandahar Provincial Council and Afghan Chamber of Commerce heads Party Affiliations: None …
2010-09-06 … of the votes cast. Thus a run-off election took place on February 3 2008 between Tomislav Nikolić of the SRS and Boris Tadić of the DS (the incumbent President) who finished first and second respectively in the first round. 6,708,697 registered voters were able to vote, which was around 50,000 more since …
2010-12-13 … before the Iowa caucuses, stands in sharp contrast to the favoritism shown Carter. In the general election, Carter started with a huge lead over incumbent President Gerald Ford , but Ford steadily closed the gap in the polls. The cause of this erosion appeared to be public doubt about such a little-known …
2010-12-30 … 1948 Democratic National Convention , the party platform reflected this division and contained only platitudes in favor of civil rights. Though the incumbent President Harry S Truman had already issued a detailed 10-point Civil Rights Program calling for aggressive federal action on the issue of civil rights, …
2010-12-30 … the 1948 Democratic National Convention, the party platform reflected this division and contained only platitudes in favor of civil rights. Though the incumbent President Harry S. Truman had already issued a detailed 10-point Civil Rights Program calling for aggressive federal action on the issue of civil rights, …
2010-12-31 … conviction he can launch a further appeal to the island\'s highest court, the Council of Grand Justices. Chen could also be pardoned by Taiwan\'s incumbent president, but only after the legal process against him has been exhausted. Friday\'s High Court ruling also upheld the graft conviction of former first lady …
2010-12-31 … his conviction, he can further appeal to the highest court on the island, the Council of Grand Justices. Chen could also be pardoned by Taiwan\'s incumbent president, but only after the legal process against him has been exhausted. Chen\'s son, Chen Chih-chung, was sentenced to one year and two months in prison …
2011-01-01 … to use all necessary means to protect its personnel\" and any others at the location. Ivory Coast president refuses phone call from Barack Obama The incumbent president of Ivory Coast is hardening his resistance to international pressure to stand down, even refusing to take a phone call from Barack Obama. Obama …
2011-01-01 … Soerjoguritno confirmed her willingness to be nominated as her party\'s presidential candidate. [ 15 ] However, she failed to win this election to the incumbent President Yudhoyono. [ edit […] Family Megawati\'s first husband, First Lieutenant Surendro Supjarso, was killed in a plane crash in Irian Jaya in 1970. In …
2011-01-01 … delegates; his closest rival, Rochas Okorocha, received 372 votes. [ 18 ] Yar\'Adua\'s success in the primary was attributed to the support of incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo […] 18 […] 19 ] At the time of his nomination he was an obscure figure on the national stage, and has been described as a …
2011-01-01 … of Harrison and Morton put together a strange victory in the presidential election. They lost the popular vote by 90,000 but still managed to beat the incumbent President Grover Cleveland in the electoral college, 233 to 168. The journalist Arthur Wallace Dunn attributed the Republican success in 1888 to the combined …
2011-01-02 … offer. U.N. official warns Gbagbo on rights violations ABIDJAN/GENEVA (Reuters) - A senior United Nations official warned incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and other senior officials on Friday they may be held criminally accountable for human rights violations. Reuters Brief Transocean …
2011-01-02 … presidential candidate in Nairobi. Kenya\'s Mwai Kibaki […] Picasse Damana, a member of the Independent Electoral Commission from the party of incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo , tears up a paper printed with partial election results just before the electoral commission was to announce the results to the …
2011-01-04 … end to American imperialism in Latin America, and a referendum before any president could again lead the nation into war. He came in third behind incumbent President Calvin Coolidge and Democratic candidate John W. Davis . La Follette won 17% of the popular vote, carried Wisconsin (winning its 13 electoral …
2011-01-04 … presidential race. Jahromi is responsible for many current economic policies and failures. Thus, his candidacy could be interpreted as helping incumbent President Ahmadinejad from taking full responsibility over his administration economic policy. Elections are due in June 2009. Get Published! What is …
2011-01-04 … the Vice Presidency has frequently been used to launch bids for the Presidency. Of the 13 presidential elections from 1956 to 2004, 9 featured the incumbent President; the other 4 ( 1960 , 1968 , 1988 , 2000 ) all featured the incumbent Vice President. Former Vice Presidents also ran, in 1984 ( Walter …
2011-01-04 … candidate—former president Theodore Roosevelt , running as a Progressive in 1912—has won as much as 20% of the popular vote. The incumbent president, Republican George W. Bush , is the 43rd president in the country's history. All U.S. presidents to date have been white men. If Democrat …
2011-01-04 … the popular vote, and probably the electoral college vote, but the results were fixed to give Hayes the majority […] Benjamin Harrison - incumbent president Grover Cleveland won the popular vote […] George W. Bush - Al Gore won the popular vote. The electoral college vote was thrown into doubt by …
2011-01-05 … was yet to come. Reagan became the First Lady of the United States when her husband was inaugurated as President in 1981, following his defeat of the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter. During her early years at the White House, she spearheaded a major renovation, which was accomplished with private donations. The …
2011-01-05 … candidate In 1968, President Johnson began to run for reelection. In January 1968, faced with what was widely considered an unrealistic race against an incumbent President, Senator Kennedy stated he would not seek the presidency. After the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, in early February 1968, Kennedy received a letter …
2011-01-05 … is going on in the Ivory Coast? The second presidential elections were held on 28th November, 2010 and the Constitutional Council which supports the incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo d... 2010 : America Maintains the Global Balance of Power The Global balance of power has for long been the international relations …
2011-01-05 … that both fathers were deceased, and had been out of office for decades, at the time of their sons\' actions. We are also reminded that although the incumbent President at the time of Roosevelt\'s action was his cousin Franklin, the \"Hyde Park Branch\" of the family, of which Franklin was was the patriarch, were of …
2009-06-16 … of the opposition. However, the foreign press and media in the country are free to report about the ongoing pro-government rallies in support of the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It has been clear for several days now that the Iranian Internet Police and security forces have not been very successful in …
2009-07-04 … selected 10 percent of the ballots cast June 12. Press TV said “few or no errors” were found. Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi claims he, not incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was the rightful winner and has called for a new election. Mousavi supporters repeatedly took to the streets in protest after …
2009-05-10 […] hopefuls who have signed-up for the June 12 presidential election. The winner is already known, the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There is no other choice for the Iranian people. Despite considerable domestic criticism which I […]
2008-08-01 … that presidents do lie, Nixon was actually not worried about that. He bet on the likelihood that the public would still credit the statements of the incumbent president no matter how much demonstration there was of past lying. And basically he was right. I didn’t succeed in convincing people that President Nixon was …
2009-06-21 … in the sphere of human rights. Around the Region... Voronin calls for lifting the “iron curtain” between Moldova & EU From: iTAR tASS Moldova’s incumbent president, Vladimir Voronin, has said that an “iron curtain” with the European Union should be raised on Moldova’s border with Romania. “The European Union …
2009-07-04 … in court for "horrible crimes and treason." The editorial added that there were "undeniable documents" proving Mousavi's foreign links. When Iran's incumbent president was re-elected by a landslide, Mousavi and other opposition candidates cried foul sparking weeks of giant protests across the country that were …
2009-07-03 … agencies. Protests gripped Tehran and other Iranian cities after June's presidential election, amid claims the vote had been rigged in favour of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Tehran has repeatedly accused foreign powers - especially Britain and the US - of meddling after the election and stoking the …
2009-06-20 … the defeated reformists candidates claim the entire election is against the sentiments of Iranians, the majority of whom opposed incumbent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his policies but whose will was thwarted by a falsification of the electoral results by an unpopular and dictatorial ruler …
2009-07-08 … the fall of Suharto. A last-minute change to registration rules is the reason. Up to 176 million Indonesians are now eligible to cast their ballots. Incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was expected to have success at the ballot box. But the victory was in danger of being overshadowed by loud complaints …
2009-07-07 More than 200 books entitled Malapetaka Demokrasi (Democracy Disaster) aimed at discrediting incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono were found in Semarang on Tuesday, just a day before election day. Semarang Elections Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) collected …
2009-07-06 … credibility. The respective camps complained for weeks about the voters list, which was also a contentious issue during and after the April polls. Incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is leading in virtually all opinion polls, said on Monday night he supported the court’s decision. “This is a good …
2009-07-06 … in a conference accompanied by Megawati Sukarnoputri and Jusuf Kalla, the two contenders in the presidential election scheduled in July 8 against the incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said that they also agreed to wait for decision by the Constitutional Assembly, the highest body in the election process, …
2009-07-04 A new Gallup Poll of Indonesia appears to reaffirm the widely held belief that Wednesday's election is incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's to lose. More than 9 in 10 Indonesians (92%) surveyed in mid-April and early May say they approve of the president's job …
2009-06-13 … refer to Venezuela's arch-foe the United States. The call came after preliminary results were announced by the Interior Ministry saying that Iran's incumbent president has won a landslide victory, gaining more than 64 percent of the votes. Chavez also noted that the Venezuelan people and government always stand …
2009-05-24 … Voters (Bavaria): 10 seats NPD (Nazis): 3 seats DVU (Nazis): 1 seats South Schleswig Voters’ Fed: 1 seats Independents: 2 seats Distribution by Land Incumbent President Horst Köhler (CDU) was elected in 2004 by the first round, when the CDU-CSU and the FDP controlled a majority of the seats. This year, the CDU-CSU …
2009-07-05 … despite having power similar to Obama’s power in the US, are elected for 6 years but they cannot run for re-election. Under the PRI system, the incumbent President chose his successor at the end. The PRI regime laid its foundations on a carefully-crafted and carefully-worked network of peasants, workers and …
2009-07-08 … in the GOP, and could even be a president candidate of the future. But not 2012. She's nowhere near where she needs to be to be ready to take on an incumbent president, no matter how badly he's performed. People initially counted Reagan out against Carter, but Reagan showed he was ready for the job. Palin has work …
2009-06-27 … Post, which writes: The election results in Iran may reflect the will of the Iranian people. Many experts are claiming that the margin of victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the result of fraud or manipulation, but our nationwide public opinion survey of Iranians three weeks before the vote showed …
2009-07-05 … its critics. Some seminaries in Qum rely on the government for funds, and Ayatollah Khamenei and the man he has declared the winner of the election, incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have powerful backers there. They also retain the support of the powerful security forces and the elite Revolutionary Guards. …
2009-06-18 … the article by Amos Harel in Haaretz a couple of days ago: And in this case, paradoxically, it seems that from Israel's point of view the victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is actually preferable. Not only because "better the devil you know," but because the victory of the pro-reform candidate will …
2008-03-03 Graham Stack for business new europe As universally expected, Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, strongly backed by incumbent President Vladimir Putin and enjoying a lion’s share of media coverage, won 70.2% of the vote in the presidential election with almost 100% counted. Distant …
2007-09-27 monks- the transatlantic feedback wins the Prize for Best Editing at the Milano Doc Festival The award ceremony night will take place the 30th of September in the Teatro Dal Verme – Via San Giovanni sul Muro 2 , Milano at 9 pm.
2009-07-01 … were killed in two weeks of unrest that followed the June 12 election. Mousavi insists the vote was tainted by massive fraud and that he — not incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — is the rightful winner. The powerful Guardian Council, Iran's top electoral oversight body, pronounced the election results …
2009-07-09 … but it is also a continuation of the unrest over last month's disputed presidential elections. The attempt to gather illustrates how opponents of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are using every opportunity to revitalize their movement, which has been suppressed and broken up in recent weeks by mass …
2009-04-23 … “behind the democrat party mistery victory (2009)”. Aditjondro found three factors that make DP won the election. First, the image of SBY as the incumbent President, who claimed the unilateral economic success of the program as a success SBY. Second, the purchase of votes, and third, the team successfully …
2010-09-22 … News. Itĉs totally distorting everything possible concerning the facts. And I think their constant hammering away at these false premises about our incumbent President has a major impact on the consciousness of America. A lot of well-meaning people, including many of those in the Tea Party movement, believe what is …
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