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11 Apr 2010 11:42

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World: Election Sunday: Hungary, Sudan get to pick new leaders today

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15 Mar 2010 10:47

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World: French people decide Nicolas Sarkozy’s political party sucks

  • 25% of French people voted for Sarkozy’s center-right UMP party
  • 29% voted for France’s Socialist party, the biggest share of votes
  • 47% of votes went to three leftist parties, including Socialists source
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07 Mar 2010 11:23

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World: Iraq’s election over, despite the terror attacks that peppered it

  • 19M number of people who were eligible to vote in Iraq’s second parliamentary election since 2003
  • 10 number of hours the polls were open in Iraq today; 6,200 candidates ran for 325 parliamentary seats up for grabs
  • 38+ number of people
    who died terrorist in attacks today designed to scare people away from voting source
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06 Mar 2010 20:22

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World: Terror in Iraq heats up the day before the elections

  • 3+ people killed in a bombing in Najaf on the eve of the elections
  • 54+ people – including 37 Iranians – injured in the attack source
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21 Jan 2010 10:28

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U.S.: Great. The Supreme Court turns off campaign funding limits

  • 5-4 douches beat cool people once again source
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08 Dec 2009 10:39

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World: Daily Poll: Can Iraq get away with free, peaceful elections?


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04 Nov 2009 12:41

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Politics: Daily poll: Looking for meaning in the 2009 elections

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16 Oct 2009 13:01

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World: Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai gets tough on Robert Mugabe

Tsvangirai says that if Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party does not change its tune, he will push for UN-sanctioned elections. source
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30 Aug 2009 09:42

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World: Japan’s election points to the Democrats over the Liberal Democrats

  • We have been trying to outgrow this old one-party system ever since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It took two decades, but we finally made it.
  • Japanese political expert Takeshi Sasaki, a former University of Tokyo president • On the Democratic Party’s likely landslide victory in today’s elections. The conservative-leaning Liberal Democratic Party (no relation to the Democrats), which has only lost its ruling status once before, currently would need an American football-style Hail Mary to remain in power. • source
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18 Jun 2009 10:31

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World: Today’s scene from the Iranian election protests

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