US Elections

Abe's "Growth Strategy" And The Upper House Election
Forbes
Upper House elections have been occurring the year after Lower House elections, and have resembled U.S. “mid term” elections where voters express disappointment with the ruling party by throwing support to opposition parties and candidates. What has ...

Iran's parliament-in-exile holds Washington briefing on the Iranian regime's ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"In effect, Khamenei is caught between a rock and a hard place. Either way, he and the ruling clique will emerge much weaker and more vulnerable after this election," NCRI-US study concluded. SOURCE NCRI-US. http://rt.prnewswire.com/rt.gif?
US takes no stand as women barred from Iran voteGlobalPost

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US to support free election in Iran
Ynetnews
"The repression, the killings, the efforts to close down any possibility to organize has really depressed that capability," she added, highlighting however that the United States was doing what it could "to encourage voices in Iran to press for the ...

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After Pakistan Election, US Should Still Press Counterterrorism Agenda
Heritage.org
Pakistanis deserve credit for braving this weekend's polls in the face of a ruthless campaign of bombings and shootings against candidates, election workers, public rallies and polling booths. With a fairly robust voter turnout of around 60 percent and ...

IRS Fallout: The Real Scandal Is Secret Money Influencing US Elections
The Nation. (blog)
The outrage that Washington should be talking about—what my colleague Chris Hayes calls “the scandal behind the scandal”—is how the Citizens United decision has unleashed a flood of secret spending in US elections that the IRS and other regulatory ...

Pakistani elections could cause complications for US
Washington Post
PAKISTAN'S ELECTION Saturday is being celebrated as paving the way for the first transfer of power from one elected government to another in the country's history. Forty million new voters are registered, and a third of all those on the rolls are under ...
Nawaz Sharif's victory in Pakistan elections likely to change nature of US ...McClatchy Washington Bureau
US President congratulates SharifJagran Post
Pakistan's Next Leader Vows Better US TiesWall Street Journal
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ITN reports 61% rise in profits, boosted by the Olympics and US elections
The Guardian
News at Ten producer ITN has reported a 61% surge in operating profits to £3.7m for 2012, with annual revenues hitting a 13-year high with the help of extra business provided by major events including the Olympics. The company, which provides news to ...

Malaysia: Failure of US to Subvert the Elections and Install a “Proxy Regime”
Center for Research on Globalization
Just as in Russia where so-called “independent” election monitor GOLOS turned out to be fully funded by the US State Department through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Malaysia's so-called election monitor, the Merdeka Center for Opinion ...