Ernst: “I hope that he projects a really strong message of unification -- that's what we really need to hear right now.”“Yeah," Cornyn said when asked if he’s concerned with the polls. “It’s been a tough year all around," adding he’s “somewhat optimistic” things will turn...
Technology has made it possible for newspapers to restore confidence in our voting system. As things stand today,no voter can be certain that his vote was correctly counted. To change this, thereceipts voters are handed on leaving the polls ought to consist of perhaps six alphanumeric characters...
Scholz, who wants to run again, initially suggested an election in late March but came under pressure from the CDU as well as his own Greens coalition partners to speed up the process. The CDU is riding high in opinion polls and its leader Friedrich Merz had been pushing for an elec...
Never before in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany have the polls been so bad for the governing CDU party. As recently as April 2020, Angela Merkel’s CDU were leading the polls on 38 percent. Now, depending on the polling institute, the CDU has tumbled to between 20 and 23...
“You see, one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for the one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a sho...
Focuses on the political condition in New Zealand in 2005. Dominance of the Labour Party in opinion polls; Attack of the National Party to government wastefulness in terms of funds for the tertiary education sector; Efforts of a parliamentary select committee to review the country's constitutional...
the peace movement, ending the Vietnam War, the counterculture, feminism, environmentalism, the greens, increased human rights, the pro choice movement, and the initially slow to change public opinion gay rights movement, has led to too many political activists and targeted individuals being murdered...
increasingly firm hold (the populist radical- right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party entering the German parliament, as the third biggest party in votes, being the latest example as we write), the relationship between the media and the styling of a political message is now fully in the ...
The EP has published an overview of recent opinion polls in the 28 EU states, which shows the EPP would win 24.0 percent of the seats, the Euro-skeptics and Euro-phobes 23.1 percent, the S&D 19.8 percent, the Alliance of Liberals and Democratsfor Europe 13.0 percent, the GUE 6.1 percent...
Referendums allow people to participate in political decision-making. However, they also come with the challenge of presenting complex issues to the electorate in a concise and comprehensible way. In order to simplify the decision-making process, referen