Small populations that can swing the world's most important election one way or the other. 少数人可以左右世界上最重要的选举。
the day of the 2015 general election; these all related to the election. The most popular question was ‘who should I vote for’ — a genuinely complex question, but the following searches were straightforward: variations on the theme of ‘who are the candidates’ and ‘where do I vote’....
It has been subject to a regular cycle of reviews of the BBC Charter and licence fee (carefully distanced from the election cycle so that the BBC is somewhat protected from becoming a political football during an election). The most recent review of the Charter in 2016 asserted that ‘The B...
A US spokesman Bill Urban said the military was still assessing the results of the strike. The main candidates to succeed Angela Merkel as German Chancellor have clashed on climate change and taxation in their first televised debate ahead of next month's election. Damien McGuinness reports from B...
International and local observers said the pre-election environment was marked by the governing Georgian Dream party's misuse of public resources and voter intimidation, as well as violence outside polling stations and evidence of vote buying. ...
Soon, a new BBC Director-General will be chosen. Why should LFPs not have a say as to who is the best candidate and have a genuine choice of different, prospective director-generals to vote for? Of course, you could have a requirem...
Mr Huntsman warned the other candidates against what he called the toxic nature of some of their campaigning against Mr Romney. Mr Huntsman, an ex-governor and former ambassador to China under the Obama administration, is seen by many Republicans as too moderate. He'd beenlaggingin the opinion...
Hundreds of international observers have been deployed tomonitorSunday's presidential election in Ukraine. The European security organization the OICE says it now are 600 in place,18 candidates are standing. Recent opinion polls in Ukraine have suggested the most popular is Viktor Yanukovych, who lost...
Only days ago, Hillary Clinton announced that she had raised a record sum, more money than all nine Democratic candidates combined in the equivalence stage of the 2004 campaign. Now Barack Obama can claim to have matched her. 4 Thousands of supporters of the Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor ...
The US government says the attack on a United Nations guesthouse in Afghanistan would not succeed in derailing the second round of the presidential election in 10 days time. Five UN workers and three local staff were killed when militants stormed the building in the capital Kabul. The Taliban ...