Slideshow: 19 PFOP columns about Abraham Lincoln
Burnham, realizing Bloomington was in all likelihood still in the dark, stopped at a Western Union telegraph office on his way to catch an 8 a.m. Chicago and Alton train back home. Although the telegraph. Opportunely, preparations for this hastily.
Hillarys leftward sprint cheers Dems
Why do politicians pander? Because it works. Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has been continually buffeted by scandal since March 2 and faces concerns among primary voters about her coming coronation. The response to the allegations .
Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas
Congressman Robinson beat Donaghey badly, winning 66% of the vote in the Democratic primary.. Still, Governor Robinson managed to push several important pieces of reform legislation before resigning on March 8, 1913 to take his seat in the U. S.
Cameron beats the polls in the UK | RedState
UKIP ��� the conservative upstart UK Independence Party ��� was going to make gains over the last election in 2010, but how many seats would they spoil for the Conservative Party? SNP ��� the. David Cameron stood to gain from the collapse of his coalition partner though, as Conservatives gained 23 seats across England and Wales.. So in the net, Labour lost 26 seats.. The UK as a whole will get an up or down vote on whether to stay or leave the European Union.
Winners and Losers emerging from early Sine Die of the 2015 Legislative Session
The two best suggestions as to who won or lost: in the Winners Column, Max Steele, press secretary for the Florida Democratic Party, for doing a better job for Senate Republicans than the Senate Majority Office at defending the push for Medicaid.
Lets Talk About Redistricting - FiveThirtyEight - The New.
So you kind of take the states that are gaining and losing seats and add it all up and theres no question that California and Illinois are big prizes for Democrats, even if they dont have exclusive power to draw the map in California.. In New York, theres some districts that are untouchable even though its not one of the states thats covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. For example, in Harlem, even if Charlie Rangel were to retire, the historic nature of his��.
Photos of the Day: May 1, 2015
A protester is arrested during a march in the streets of Manhattan in a demonstration held to support Baltimores protests against police brutality following the death of Freddie Gray in New York, NY, USA, April 29, 2015. Gray died of spinal. At.
Live-Blogging Election Night in Britain - The Lede - The New.
Since the Liberal Democrats have only increased their share of the vote by about 1 percent so far and lost some seats, it might seem like a bad night for the party, given that polls just two weeks ago showed them in first or second place in. But since it now seems unlikely that the Conservatives have won a majority of the seats in the new Parliament, Labour may be able to convince the Liberal Democrats to join a center-left coalition government by promising to hold a��.
The Latest: Anti-Immigration Party Wins a Seat in UK Vote
But Thursdays exit poll, based on interviews with 22,000 voters, is projecting the Conservatives will get 316 seats ��� up from 302 and far more than had been predicted in the 650-seat House of Commons. It says Labour Party get 239 seats ��� down from 256.
Londons New Political Landscape - allthatsleft
In both Islington and Lewisham ��� neither of which had a Labour majority going into the 2010 elections ��� Labour now holds all but one seat on the council (a solitary Green in both cases). Labour. We got four boroughs wrong: Labour won three boroughs where we thought the Tories might hang on ��� Croydon, Hammersmith and Harrow (Labour lost control in Harrow last year as a result of defections)... But that election is still a year off, and much could still change.
Miliband, Farage and Clegg have all quit ��� and David.
. Scottish leader, Jim Murphy, lost his seat. In Northern Ireland, Sinn F��in lost out in the most marginal constituency in the country, with the Ulster Unionists gaining two seats (up from zero) ��� in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
UK General Election results live blog coverage - Business.
The SNP has stormed home in Scotland ��� it looks like theyve won all but three seats in the country (one Lib Dem, one Conservative, and on Labour MP remain)... SNP win / gain from Labour. ED MILIBAND MAY HAVE NO FUTURE AS LABOURS LEADER. The Guardian points out that Labour has lost ground to the Tories in England, and lost Scotland completely. And given that, it is.. Hmm! Still, the sample is 22,000 voters so it ought to be statistically robust.
Election 2015 live: Miliband reveals first coalition red line to.
The Conservatives have raised 10 times more in donations than Labour in the final week of the general election campaign, official figures showed on Tuesday. David Camerons. Jon Stewart during a taping of The Daily Show in New York.. In an interview with Jon Snow, he said the UK had better institutions than the US - but still arrived at ���stupid decisions��� such as going to war in Iraq... Tories would have gained an extra 30 seats from AV, research suggests.
Fed Meeting, GDP, Abe, Apple, Buffett: Week Ahead April 25-May 2
-Nominations begin for candidates in a Malaysian special election for the seat formerly held by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who was disqualified following a five-year prison sentence for a sodomy conviction. Voting will take place on May 7.
Election results: Tories win majority as Labour is humiliated by the SNP and.
In the last week it increased. Vast numbers of people said Id like to vote for you but Im not voting for your leader. It lost me a lot of votes. They did not see him as a leader. That was the fundamental issue that had people swinging back to the.
Landslide Election - TV Tropes
In terms of absolute numbers the SDP-Liberal Alliance came within a million votes of Labours total, but the UKs first-past-the-post electoral system ensured that the party only had one-tenth as many seats, because SDP candidates tended to... The ANC has consistently won over 60% of the vote at every election since, winning larger majorities in 1999 and 2004, and only losing seats for the first time in 2009 (but still finishing with more seats than the party had in 94) before losing a��.
Ashcroft Implications: Labour Has Lost the Election But.
Ashcroft Implications: Labour Has Lost the Election But David Cameron Still Hasnt Won. by George_East on February 6, 2015. As Charlie-East West wrote yesterday, Lord Ashcrofts polls of individual Scottish seats have made it clear that��.
The Comic Tragedy of British Politics 3: Real People
The Tories are predicted to win it safely this time, unless there is a significant tactical shift by Labour voters to prevent this ��� something that seems unlikely as the more radical student vote cannot forgive the Lib Dem betrayal of their high.
Election 2015: Ed Miliband admits SNP could prop up Labour government - as it.
It shows Labour gaining Norwich North (currently Chloe Smith), Peterborough, and Wirral West (Esther McVey), and the Conservatives holding Battersea (Janet Ellison), Croydon Central, Pudsey and Stourbridge (held by Margot James). The SNP. Emily.
Carbon Control: Is Emissions Trading Working in the Northeast?
Huntley Generating Station is a coal-fired electric plant in Tonawanda, New York, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regularly cites as one of Erie Countys biggest polluters. (Bruce MacQueen). that ���cap��� is reduced over time. Yet the.
Putin Thrives on Russian Passivity
In this sense, the 2008���2009 financial crisis was a lost opportunity for Russia. The crisis did. The number is expected to increase as a result of the ongoing decline in real incomes, worsening labor market conditions, employee realignment and.
Election 2015 live: HSBC threat to leave UK shows danger of Tory re-election.
But if after five years in government the Conservative Partys policy advantage is confined to the economy and the public finances - crucial areas, but not, as far as voters are concerned, everything - that is hardly the fault of an Australian.
The 11 moments that define Hillary Clinton - Vox
The complexities are not lost in our analyses, but perhaps theyre just put into what we consider a more human and eventually a more progressive perspective... For one thing, Democrats had only 56 seats in the Senate ��� a far cry from the 60 the Obama administration needed to pass their health-care bill... In April 1999, Maureen Dowd wrote in her New York Times column that Hillary was unmasked as a counterfeit feminist after she let her man step all over her.
New Forecast Shows Democrats Losing 6 to 7 Senate Seats.
In addition, there is an 11 percent chance that Democrats will lose a total of nine seats, which would leave them with 50 votes, making them vulnerable to a defection to the Republican Party by a centrist like Joseph I.. But, at a time when they need to be drawing closer to their opponents as the clock ticks toward Nov. 2, these. The Democrats retain long-shot chances ��� about 3 percent ��� of actually gaining one or more Senate seats and restoring a 60-seat majority.
Liveblog: UK Election Returns | FiveThirtyEight
3:56 AM [Daniel B.]: The Liberal Democrats are actually beating Labour in England in terms of votes, but they are down 54-15 on seats. So even without Scotland and Wales they still have a lopsided advantage.. In Dunbartonshire West, it was the SNP who lost in second place (by far), but again a swing towards Labour of a whopping 5.5 percent, with the SNP and Lid Dems both losing ground.. 2:03 AM (BST): Labour gained a seat from other in Blaneau Gwent.
The 14 seats most likely to go to UKIP in the May 2015.
Current forecasts have them gaining around 12% of the national vote, although the distribution of those votes could see them pick up less than a handful of seats (polls point to a maximum of 3-4). Even then, any increase. Verdict: Farage may still be trailing in the polls but his national profile may just be enough to overcome that deficit. Highly possible.. But the partys anti-immigration, anti-EU message is rapidly picking up supporters in one-time Labour heartlands..
The Communist Nations and Western Assistance
Another American supporter of the Bolsheviks was William Boyce Thompson, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who led a Red Cross Mission to Moscow in 1917 and made a personal contribution of $1 million to the Communists... been decided.
Live Blogging Election Night - FiveThirtyEight - The New.
The Republican, Chris Dudley, leads by 2 points, but much of the outstanding vote is in Portland and its environs, where John Kitzhaber has performed strongly, as Democrats usually do.. Our current projection is that Republicans will finish with a total of 243 house seats: this would reflect a net gain of 65 from Democrats. The range of plausible.. Of the 339 House races which have been called so far by The New York Times, our model picked the right winner in 332.
A Bad Economy Could Harm House Republicans - NYTimes.
The New York Times.. However, not only did Truman, who ran a highly partisan campaign criticizing the ���do-nothing Congress,��� maintain the presidency, but Democrats also had a net gain of 75 seats in the House and 9 in the Senate, taking control. This is probably meaningless, although it is at least theoretically possible that Democrats have an inherent advantage over Republicans in difficult economic times when voters might have reason to blame either party.).
Fightbacks 2015 Political Perspectives
The inability of capitalism to provide improvements for workers for a prolonged period of time must form the basis of our perspectives.. The number of self-employment workers (which is often a desperate way out for out-of-work workers to gain some.
Scotland lost the fight for independence, but gained huge.
But seven months on, that morning looks less like an end than the start of something new: a change in Scottish politics that could deliver a historic win for the Scottish National Party in the UK elections next week, and a shift in UK politics that could change the. The SNP opposes a UK referendum on exiting Europe (as does the Labour Party), and if one were forced upon them would insist on a ���double majority,��� or a separate vote on the issue in Scotland, Smith said.
General election: City backlash at Ed Milibands non-dom pledge - as it happened
. a long time. The hon. Gentleman said that it sat ill with the party of Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson, but the remittance basis in fact goes back long before their premierships to the 1800s, and both those extremely distinguished former leaders.