Chapter 1. geography, people and language. Think and talk. Do you know the full name of Britain? Do you know the geographical features of this country? Do you know its major cities, London, Ed…
Elections are held periodically to identify winners. 总统每四年选举一次。 Presidents are elected every four years. 众议院435名议员每两年改选一次,美国国会100名参议员也每两年有三分之一要改选。 The 435 members of the House of Representatives are up for election every two years, as are one-third ...
Our rolling live coverage will feature up-to-the-minute updates, analysis and reaction as tallies emerge, counts are completed and seats filled. We will also provide detailed results for each of the 43 constituencies, along with graphics showing how the country and each con...
The bottom line is today things are too close to call. As Rush Limbaugh often said ahead of elections, the deciding factors may be largely or completely unknown at this point. Wars, pandemics, power grid outages, or other calamities may be lurking. Scandals ...
French election results to force compromise and consensus Three major political blocs emerged from the elections — yet none of them is close to the majority of at least 289 seats out of 577 required to form a government on its own. The National Assembly is the most important of France's ...
The Party-led system involves effective feedback mechanisms, such as polling, to discern what people think, for example, about proposed new policies. So, even though there are no elections in the Western sense, there is a good deal of feedback from different constituencies. Another example is...
Residents of Puerto Rico, for example, are U.S. citizens but do not have the right to vote in presidential elections. They also have no voting representatives in the U.S. Congress unless they move to one of the 50 states.14 Residents of Washington, D.C., payfederal taxesdespite having...
Fourteen other states are now enforcing bans on abortion in all stages of pregnancy. POLITICS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE The ruling puts the issue of abortion access front and center in a state key to this year’s elections to decide the presidency and partisan control of the U.S. Senate. De...
Normally in legislative elections, a key analytical tool in making race calls is comparing the current election night vote result with previous election results for the same contest. Since this is the first election held under these new boundaries, past Senate and House results are not a...