He’s Back: Ralph Nader Enters Presidential Race
Posted on February 24, 2008 - Filed Under Elections
The last time he ran for President, in 2004, he got under 500,00o votes, meaning out of the entire country, about the population of 1 US congressional district voted for him. So why does anyone care about today’s announcement by Ralph Nader that he is running for President? In 2000, he ran well […]
Read More..>>Musharraf Wants Swiss to Probe Zardari
Posted on February 21, 2008 - Filed Under Elections, Pakistan
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf has his back against the wall and is looking for some way, anyway to remain in power. After his party was trounced in the election on February 18th, there are few options for Musharraf to consider. Here’s one - ask a foreign nation to revisit 10-year old corruption […]
Read More..>>Obama Wins 10 in a Row
Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under Elections, Obama
“Houston, I think we achieved liftoff here,†Mr. Obama told a crowd of 20,000 people in Texas as he celebrated his double digit win in Wisconsin.
With Wisconsin and Hawaii sealed for Barack Obama he has now won an impressive 10 states in a row since Super Tuesday.
This sets up the March 4th primaries in […]
Musharraf’s Party Trounced in Pakistan Elections
Posted on February 18, 2008 - Filed Under Elections, Musharraf
In the end, it wasn’t even close.
“We concede and congratulate the people who have won the elections,” Mushahid Syed Hussain, general secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, the political party of Pervez Musharraf.
While the final results will not be known until later today or tomorrow, the margin of victory is so large that the […]
Obama Goes 3 for 3 in ‘Potomac Primary’
Posted on February 12, 2008 - Filed Under Elections
Virgina - Obama
DC - Obama
Maryland - Obama
Barack Obama can now lay claim to the most amount of delegates in the democratic primary with his sweep of the 3 primaries today. He now has the money, the momentum, (and secretly) the media on his side as they begin their second draft stories on the demise […]
Obama’s Weekend Sweep Complete - Wins Maine Caucuses
Posted on February 10, 2008 - Filed Under Clinton, Elections
This weekend, Barack Obama took out the broom. He finished off his weekend sweep with a strong win in the Maine caucuses. With 87% reporting, Obama is up 59% to 41% in a state that Clinton lead in polling last month.
Earlier today it was announced that the Clinton campaign has removed the […]
Myanmar to hold elections by 2010
Posted on February 10, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized
Better late than never.
The last time Myanmar held elections it was 1990 and the military refused to hand power over to the election winners. Then it punished Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy, by forcing him in jail or in house arrest for much of the past 18 years. […]
Can Kofi Save Kenya?
Posted on February 9, 2008 - Filed Under Elections, Kenya
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has been in Kenya for several weeks in an attempt to broker a peace agreement between the government and the opposition party - the source of the violence that has now killed over 1,000 people and threatened to destabilize one of Africa’s more stable nations. Annan is in search […]
Read More..>>Kenya Red Cross Says More Than 1,000 Die In Crisis
Posted on February 6, 2008 - Filed Under Elections, Kenya
More than 1,000 people have died and 304,000 people been displaced in Kenya’s post-election crisis, the local Red Cross said.
“As of yesterday, we have over 1,000 people (dead) including the latest killings in Kisii, Migori and other places over the weekend,” Kenya Red Cross spokesman Tony Mwangi said. The figure of 304,000 refugees did not […]
Super Bowl of Presidential Race is Today
Posted on February 5, 2008 - Filed Under Elections
In politics as in sports, predictions often leave the prognosticators with egg on their face. While most experts predicted the New England Patriots would rout the Giants (with a nod to Keith Olbermann and a few others who actually made the right call), the Giants prevailed in one of the greatest Super bowls of all […]
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