Is every Philly mayors race about race?
We asked veteran political reporter Bob Warner to look at decades of Philadelphia election returns and tell us if racial voting patterns are as clear as so many of us think. Some pundits look at. Weve heard this kind of analysis for decades, but is.
Body of missing Wall Street Journal reporter found
���The Bird family would like to thank the many members of law enforcement, especially Chief Michael Mazzeo and the Long Hill Township Police Department, for their tireless efforts to find David,��� Carolyn Buscarino, a spokeswoman for the family said in a.
Defence equipment plan at risk, say MPs
The Ministry of Defences equipment plan is at real risk from cost overruns and potential spending cuts, an influential group of MPs has said. The Public Accounts Committee said the department had admitted its 10-year plan may cost at least ��5.2bn.
GOP Columnist: The VERY Bad News FOR THE. - Daily Kos
On Election Day that block added New Hampshire to its number and Virginia is shifting At the outset of any Presidential campaign, a minimally effective Democratic candidate can expect to win 257 electoral votes out of the 270 needed to win. If Virginia joins New Hampshire that. Obama, or opposition to the ACA. Look at Rauner who took out Quinn in Illinois, but Democrats in Illinois retained their supermajority in the State Assembly having not lost a single seat.
The Reconstruction of American Journalism - Columbia.
Commercial television news, which was long the chief rival of printed newspapers, has also been losing its audience, its advertising revenue, and its reporting resources.. Rather, journalism changed, sometimes dramatically, as the nation changed���its economics (because of the growth of large retailers in major cities), demographics (because of the shifts of population from farms to cities and then to suburbs), and politics (because early on political parties controlled newspapers and��.
Alastair Campbell on his obsession with winning
So, will Tony Blairs former chief spokesman, the man who helped guide New Labour to two landslide election victories, the man who at the height of his No 10 career was likened to Goebbels, Hitler, Pol Pot and Rasputin, and who nowadays is billed as.
Netanyahus victory is Obamas latest headache
In doing so, Netanyahu is fully aware that there is no price tag attached for killing the peace negotiations. His declaration ahead of the vote ���if Im elected, there will be no Palestinian state��� was aimed at rallying his base as much as it was a.
Even if Netanyahu loses, he can still win ��� Mondoweiss
However, Israeli elections are determined by voting blocs and not individual parties. And so even if Netanyahu loses, he can still win. And if that happens, it wouldnt be the first time. In Israels 2009 election Netanayhus party��.
American Muslims Seek to Become Decisive on Election Day
A few nervous peripheral news sources introduce it as the Muslim political party on its way to impose sharia law. If mainstream media was interested it was not in the organization but in the USCMOs 1st agenda ���the��.
After the party, its time for the ANC to ponder | News.
NEWS ANALYSIS. ���Vote for the party, not an individual.��� That was the ANCs refrain ahead of the election. Offering a scandal-plagued president as its leader, the party focused instead on its considerable history as an. as their critics may have hoped. Not all good news. And now, with elections done and dusted, political parties have moved their focus to the next stage ��� deploying their respective representatives to provincial legislatures and the National Assembly.
IFS challenges George Osborne over ��12bn welfare spending cut plan
It is time we knew more about what they might actually involve.���. Read more. Earlier in the day, a senior Conservative minister said the party would not spell out all its welfare cuts until after the general election. David Gauke, the Treasury.
City elections: A window of opportunity
It may go through a revitalised resurgence. It has nothing to lose. The AL also wins on all counts. Even if it loses, its democratic credential wins. The biggest win is that violent and deadly political actions will be contained during the elections.
Voting Out Israels 1%
Even if there is a good chance that this time a center-left bloc can beat Benjamin Netanyahus Likud party, these hopeless Israelis argue, nevertheless, that the main reason for replacing the current rulers is already irrelevant: Practically, the.
Televised leaders debates are pointless (according to science)
Obviously his rivals have made a lot of political capital out of this, with Ed Miliband going so far as to suggest he would make the live debates a legal requirement, revealing once again his keen instinct for taking a minor advantage and having little.
Republicans and Democrats may continue to swap control.
���Im really worried about Democracy, not just my party,��� Martin said. ���I think the toxicity, the gridlock, the constant politicking and blaming and nothing getting done leads young people to think theres no merit in being involved,��.
Stressed Mugabe fears losing by-elections - DailyNews Live
Analysts told the Daily News last night that the partys move was a strategy to avoid by-elections at a time the Zanu PF membership was sharply divided between supporters of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his fired predecessor Joice. Shakespear Hamauswa, a political scientist based in Zambia said the ongoing bloodletting within the party was not conducive for Zanu PF to go to any elections as aggrieved cadres would likely agitate for revenge.
After Nasheeds Conviction, Maldives At Cross-Roads Again? - Analysis
During the three-week long trial, the presiding Judges ruled that there was no need for them to recuse themselves, nor was there any need for them to appear as witnesses, possibly holding that the case would have stood even without either. The court.
Political Experts: ���Why Elections in Developed World Change Nothing���
LONDON ��� England ��� Political experts and researchers for the Institute of Socialist Policy have prepared a brief analysis of the current process of electoral government in the developed world, especially during election times. ���There are infinite.
Republican win on blocking Obamas. - Daily Kos
As Republicans take a victory lap over the ruling that temporarily halts President Obamas immigration actions, they have forgotten one thing about their partys political future: theyre screwed. Texas Sen.. George W. Bush may not have been able to convince his party to come along with him on policy, but he openly supported immigration reform and advocated for greater outreach to the Latino community. It was a. But the GOP seems to have lost its political brain.
Can Venezuelas Maduro Afford to Hold Elections?
If the party loses its majority in the legislature, the opposition could gain more control over budgetary and political decisions, even opening the possibility of a recall effort against Maduro in 2016. Delaying or suspending the elections, however.
Dejected Biti cries foul - DailyNews Live
���Democracy is a very simple process, people elect their representatives and the people themselves have the ultimate say on who can go to Parliament, not a political party, not even the Speaker of Parliament, it does not happen and it is not provided. With the MDC adamant that it would not participate in any by-elections before reforms, Biti said his erstwhile comrades in opposition politics have handed ���some no-go areas��� like Bulawayo to Zanu PF on a silver platter.
Help-to-buy ISA, North Sea oil tax breaks and personal allowance increase from.
16.35 There were plenty of winners from the budget - first-time homebuyers, savers, North Sea oil companies to name a few - but where is the money for all these tax breaks coming from? Its mostly the banks. The banks look to have lost out the most.
The Alphabet of Satire
When they won, Max followed in their slipstream, working to shed his German accent, reading books by English and American writers, and serving, at various times, as the citys police commissioner and fire chief. In the 1870s, he. One sentence caught.
This election, ANC appears tactically lost - Mail and Guardian
Analysis. In this parallel universe, the ANC appears to believe that the majority of voters ��� its core, working-class support ��� does not give a flying fig about what public protector Thuli Madonsela described in her report as opulence on a grand. Thus, the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) ��� the only two other political parties of any substantial relevance to the outcome of Election 2014 ��� have to get their strategy right by running a��.
NY21: Is Elise Stefanik a fresh new voice or a carpetbagger.
Tell us a little about her. Brian Mann: Stefanik is 29 years old, single with no kids. Shes a Harvard graduate and until last year, she spent much of her time in Washington, D.C., where she still owns a part-share in a home.. Hes the GOP party chair in Franklin County. In 2012, he. When she was at Harvard, she was active with a group called the Institute of Politics that was actually led by Jeanne Shaheen, the long-time Democratic politician from New Hampshire.
Adelante: Inside the Elections, Implications and.
But there were others things happening too in the area of national Latino immigration issues and, of course, cross-currents of rivalries almost buried, and, oh yeah, a coming presidential election, where Latinos looked to settle things,.. Christie did not renominate Puerto Rican Judge Roberto Rivera-Soto to the state Supreme Court in 2011, he made sure in the balancing act afterwards to nominate Cuban Faustina Fernandez-Vina in 2013; and he rewarded longtime��.
Budget 2015: George Osborne sets scene for general election
It is not one that reshapes the Whitehall fiscal architecture (as the welfare cap budget arguably did), nor does it pose any tricky policy challenges for Labour (as the pension reforms initially did), and consequently Labour seems rather relieved.. The economic picture from todays budget is that the end of austerity may be in sight, but the road to get there is still long, bumpy and painful.. Here is some reaction to the budget from political parties, the TUC and the CBI.
Spite toward Bibi hardened Obamas resolve to do Iran nuke deal
White House steps up attacks - Fox News: ��� In its first public response to Netanyahus election triumph, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said President Obama still believes in a two-state solution. This was. Double standard - Daily Caller.
Libs cant afford more by-elections
Despite offering up such a worthy candidate, the Davenport by-election was far too close for comfort for the Liberal Party. While most remained hopeful, I dont know any SA Libs who were willing to put their house on a win in Davenport. It seemed that.
Mary Landrieus Loss and the End of Ticket Splitting - Roll Call
The change in our parties and our politics created particular problems for Landrieu this time, since she always based her re-election strategy on turning out liberal African-Americans and getting enough support from moderates and whites in the business community. As my. But if the Louisiana senators defeat demonstrated a long-term trend over which she had little or no control, the campaign also was a poster child of what is wrong with todays campaigns. Over the��.
The Koch brothers are getting close to having their own.
. was money. This is the same Sun Times that a couple years earlier announced very explicitly and rationally that it was no longer doing endorsements. I guess the Sun Times just magically changed their minds. Rauner won the election... What is really worse is that these awful politicians that the Kochs bought willfully work to keep America at the very bottom so the GOP can happily plunder it with abandon while people lose their livelihoods and starve in the street.
16 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Will Win 2016 - The Daily.
By the standards of ���political time,��� where in one day a candidate can go from frontrunner to underdog, the 2016 presidential election is decades away. But from this vantage point, all signs point to Hillary Clinton coasting to��.