Although the House of Representatives is yet to formally begin deliberating the presidential election bill, factions at the House have begun wrangling over the minimum requirements for political parties to be allowed to nominate candidates.Major factions at the House, namely the Democratic Party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) ... Read More

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CAIRO: Israel has become a punching bag for politicians vying for votes in Egypt’s presidential election, playing on popular antipathy in Egypt toward its neighbor, but the realities of office are likely to ensure a 33-year-old peace treaty is not jeopardized. Officials in Israel have watched Egypt’s political turmoil with increasing ... Read More

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NEARLY a year-and-a-half after the revolution that shook the Arab world, Egypt is poised to take another stride on the bumpy road to democracy. The recent spectacle of an Islamist candidate and his more secular-minded rival arguing it ... Read More

If, like me, you're a political buff who enjoys a presidential election campaign the way a sports fan enjoys the seventh game of a World Series, you probably were heartened by the recent Gallup-USA Today poll which indicated that, with six months to go, the race between Barack Obama and ... Read More

Now that Governor Mitt Romney has essentially locked up the GOP nomination, a new presidential campaign season has begun. This election year, Latinos will be a major political target for both candidates. Republican and Democrats will tout the importance of Latinos, highlight values that appeal to this group, explain how ... Read More

Injecting a new element in the presidential race, BJD and AIADMK appeared to be coming together to sponsor NCP leader and former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma as a candidate in the coming presidential election. Odisha Chief Minister and ruling BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik on Thursday gave his party’s ... Read More

AS TELEVISED debates go the performance was lame. Two elderly men in dark suits and ties scrapped like shopkeepers, seeming keener to discredit each others’ goods than to plug their own. Yet the sheer ordinariness of the five-hour ... Read More

-- Posted Thursday, 17 May 2012 | | Source: GoldSeek.com By Daniel R. Amerman, CFAForget the anemic latest US ... Read More

PARIS –  On his whirlwind first day since winning the French presidential election, Socialist Francois Hollande was set to embark on a crash course in international politics, with a critical visit to Berlin, an invite to the White House, and two top summits already on the agenda. ... Read More

PARIS –  On his whirlwind first day since winning the French presidential election, Socialist Francois Hollande was set to embark on a crash course in international politics, with a critical visit to Berlin, an invite to the White House, and two top summits already on the agenda. ... Read More

PRESIDENTIAL WARFARE. It didn't take long for the negativity on both sides of the presidential campaign to begin in earnest, and New Hampshire (of course) is in the middle of it.President Barack Obama's campaign fired off the first attack ad of the presidential campaign in five key swing states this ... Read More

PRESIDENTIAL WARFARE. It didn't take long for the negativity on both sides of the presidential campaign to begin in earnest, and New Hampshire (of course) is in the middle of it.President Barack Obama's campaign fired off the first attack ad of the presidential campaign in five key swing states this ... Read More

The presidential election is nearly six months away, but ads attacking Mitt Romney and Barack Obama already are airing on Pennsylvania stations. One ad features Pat Wells, who worked at a Kansas City steel plant that closed eight years after it was taken over by Bain Capital, the financial firm Romney ... Read More

The presidential election is nearly six months away, but ads attacking Mitt Romney and Barack Obama already are airing on Pennsylvania stations. One ad features Pat Wells, who worked at a Kansas City steel plant that closed eight years after it was taken over by Bain Capital, the financial firm Romney ... Read More

Presidential candidate Fawzi Eissa has decided to withdraw from May's presidential election in favor of former Arab League chief Amr Moussa. Eissa said, in a press conference with Moussa, that he decided to pull out from the approaching presidential race in favor of Moussa, who he argued, is keen on maintaining ... Read More

Presidential candidate Fawzi Eissa has decided to withdraw from May's presidential election in favor of former Arab League chief Amr Moussa. Eissa said, in a press conference with Moussa, that he decided to pull out from the approaching presidential race in favor of Moussa, who he argued, is keen on maintaining ... Read More

Posted: 9:16 AMUpdated: 9:54 AM Bush unlikely to play a major role in Romney's campaign The Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After months of silence, George W. Bush finally weighed on the presidential race — with four short words. In this March 5, ... Read More

  WASHINGTON, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Fifty-six percent of Americans think President Barack Obama will win the 2012 presidential election, compared with 36 percent who think Republican challenger Mitt Romney will win, according to the USA Today/Gallup poll released on Tuesday. The May 10-13 poll also shows that 81 percent of Democrats ... Read More