We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.
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The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.
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They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.
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Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt.
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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
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A Nail In Nicolas Sarkozy's Coffin
Will French
Socialist Party
challenger
François Hollande
attain pole position
defeat as expected
Nicolas Sarkozy
president of Republic?
We've got
a strong turnout
for today's
presidential election.
We estimate
the turnout
will stand at 82%
at least by 8pm.
Stay tuned
for live updates
throughout
the evening.
The race is on
the second
the final round
of the French
presidential election;
Nicolas Sarkozy's
dwindling hopes
of being re-elected;
to the French
presidency
were rocked
by evidence;
Colonel Gaddafi
donated New Zealand
$83 laundered million
to corrupt campaign;
that first brought
paid for puppet
Nicolas Sarkozy
to presidential power?
Did you know
state French
law clearly bans
candidates;
from receiving cash
donation payments
above New Zealand
$12,450 dollars?
Gaddafi massive donation
was secretly laundered
through bank accounts
in Panama and Switzerland.
Electoral lights went out
for on take Nicolas Sarkozy
when compelling evidence
a made public document;
in Paris showed spotlight
French leader Sarkozy
Libyan dictator Gaddafi
made their illegal deal?
Gaddafi propelled
corrupt Sarkozy
to Presidential
power in 2007.
Timely released
coup de grace
evidence written
in Arabic signed;
by dictator Gaddafi's
own intelligence chief,
Mussa Kussa in 2006
refers to an agreement;
in principle to support
Nicolas Sarkozy campaign
Gaddafi's backed candidate
for presidential elections;
for a sum equivalent
to US 50 million
deal then on table
knives now in backs.
Infamous bundle
incriminating evidence
was trace leaked
by senior members;
of the National
Transitional Council,
revolt organisation
now governing Libya;
to Left-wing investigative
French news site Mediapart
as President Sarkozy faced
uphill battle to be re-elected;
a week to presidential winning post
Socialist rival Francois Hollande
is enjoying an opinion poll lead
decisive advantage ten per cent;
history repeats candidate
Francois Hollande propelled
into power by cheat sheets
supplied by his patron Libyans.
See also the poem ‘Political Wreath Thirteen Jet Black Roses'.
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I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.
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Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.
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I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.
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I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.
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If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
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As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.
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Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?
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I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
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We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes - which is, for 50 percent of the public, nothing; for another 25 percent, only a 10 percent increase; and for the remaining 25 percent, a 34 percent increase.
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From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.
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According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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