Is this an election with worldwide implications, or has it been blown out of proportion?
In 1944, there were 22 such candidates elected, and at no time since 1944 (until 2012) had there
been any election with more than 17.
That was an election with one historically unfavourable candidate (who won) and a high percentile unfavourable candidate.
For purposes of this question, a «contested election» must
be an election with multiple candidates.
On March 5th in Los Angeles, there will
be an election with three of the seven school board seats up for grabs.
Not exact matches
At the time of his termination, Comey had
been leading a federal investigation into whether the president's campaign advisors had colluded
with Moscow in order to influence last year's
election.
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Though Canada
's next federal
election is still two and a half years away, it
's likely to coincide
with the climax of Canada-U.S. trade re-negotiations
With Trump
's unexpected
election win, Clarke has a shot at a job on the national stage, one for which he
's certainly
been angling.
Flynn has since pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and
is cooperating
with the special counsel's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016
election.
How users have engaged
with the app during the
election has
been somewhat surprising, in the way that political conversation on social media has generally
been surprising.
We will continue working
with the government to understand the full extent of Russian interference, and we will do our part not only to ensure the integrity of free and fair
elections around the world, but also to give everyone a voice and to
be a force for good in democracy everywhere.
COPENHAGEN, April 20 -
With melting ice expanding access to the Arctic, investors from China to Canada
are watching Greenland's
election next week for signs of the political will to get a flagging mining program on the island back on track.
«Twitter
is the most direct way to engage
with the candidates and issues of this
election and to participate in the live, public conversation around its key events,» said Adam Sharp, Twitter's head of news, government, and
elections, in a statement.
The data sets aren't huge — 232 participants in October before the
election and 152 after,
with a total of 772 negotiations recorded — and there may
be some other difference that explains the later group's more aggressive behavior, though Low tried to control for factors, like party affiliation, that might offer alternate explanations for the shift.
Six years later, as we approach a general
election, now
is a good time to evaluate what the government did
with the Panel's recommendations.
Cambridge Analytica
is being scrutinized for the methods it used during the 2016 presidential
election, after executives
with the British data firm boasted about their ability to covertly target voters, entrap politicians, and launch propaganda campaigns.
In an interview
with the Boston Globe, Pelosi made clear she
is still the boss and has no intention of taking on a smaller role after the 2018 midterm
elections this fall.
Comparing the results from lab tests she ran during early and late October
with tests she ran the week after the
election, she noticed a change she called «extremely stark:» On the whole, negotiating partners
were more adversarial in their chat - based communication threads.
Of course, the banks also had a lot to do
with the rise of the S&P 500, which
is weighted by market - cap, during the same period: Nearly 36 % of the S&P 500's returns since the
election came from financial stocks, according to S&P Global.
Speaking at a meeting
with CEOs on April 11, he called it «an investment that would not have
been made if we didn't win the
election.»
«As a manager or as an employer, you can circulate a memo as you
're approaching an
election, for example, reminding everyone that they
're encouraged to vote and have a right to their own opinion, but that their expressions of their political beliefs should
be respectful and in keeping
with workplace policy.
The meeting came as the intelligence community
was assessing Russia's interference in the 2016
election and whether members of the Trump campaign had colluded
with Moscow.
The FBI
is investigating whether Donald Trump's associates coordinated
with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential
election, Director James Comey said Monday in an extraordinary public confirmation of a probe the president has refused to acknowledge, dismissed as fake news and blamed on Democrats.
«Of the 282 accounts
with non-zero karma, more than half (145)
were banned prior to the start of this investigation through our routine Trust & Safety practices» said Huffman in the announcement, referring to an internal investigation that began last month, in response to «recent reports about the integrity of Reddit» regarding the scope of Russian
election influence on various social media platforms, according to a previous announcement.
Most recently, she sat down
with Oprah Winfrey to discuss how she
's turning her activism into action by launching a new initiative called Eighteen x» 18, which will encourage more young people to vote in the upcoming
elections.
All three officials
were pursuing separate but related inquiries into Russia's interference in the 2016
election, and whether the Trump campaign had anything to do
with it.
Cambridge Analytica
was created around 2013 initially
with a focus on U.S.
elections,
with $ 15 million in backing from billionaire Republican donor Robert Mercer and a name chosen by future Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, the New York Times reported.
It
was the NDP leader's first major speech to the industry since winning the provincial
election in May; although prior to Oct. 9 she had consulted
with individuals and small groups, she'd yet to speak directly to the sector as one entity.
Both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees as well as the FBI
are conducting simultaneous investigations into the prospect of Russian interference in the 2016
election, and collusion
with associates of Donald Trump's campaign.
The former FBI director
is investigating Russian's efforts to influence the 2016
election and whether President Donald Trump's campaign colluded
with the Kremlin.
One of those women
is porn star Stormy Daniels, who
was paid $ 130,000 by Cohen shortly before the 2016
election in exchange for her silence about an alleged dalliance
with Trump years earlier.
But the Israeli government remains defiant about maintaining its freedom of action to make war on Iran, and it
is counting on the influence of right - wing extremist views in U.S. politics to bring pressure to bear on Obama to fall into line
with a possible Israeli attack during the
election campaign this fall....
In the introduction to a series that will look back at the events leading up to the
election, Silver seems on the defensive somewhat, justifying his analysis of the poll results and pointing out that he predicted Clinton would
be weak
with the Electoral College and that Trump might prevail.
Gillespie faces off
with the Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ralph Northam, Virginia's lieutenant governor, in the Tuesday
election, which
is billed as the premier race of 2017.
If you work in the media, or
are even tangentially interested in it, you've probably seen the New York Times «interview
with White House strategist Steve Bannon, who attacked the mainstream press for its cluelessness during the recent
election while saying that reporters should feel humiliated and irrelevant.
And, by the way, we
were furious about the past presidential
election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace
with his impeachment for obstruction of justice.
For example, Silver argues that a number of factors had more to do
with the media's misunderstanding of what
was happening during the
election than any alleged errors in polling.
This
is especially a problem
with polls close to
Election Day.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a Senate committee on Tuesday that Facebook
is cooperating
with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office and that his company may have received subpoenas as part of the investigation into any ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russian
election interference.
If they don't, they risk disallowing the
S corp
election, and the corporation would
be treated as a C corp
with its corresponding restrictions.
Up until now, this issue has mostly
been watercooler fodder, but
with the Federal Reserve having raised rates in December and Donald Trump's
election victory causing the 10 - year treasury yield to spike by 19 % since
election day, many investors
are now reducing their exposure to these rate - sensitive sectors.
«As the race stands now,
with Republicans in charge of both Houses, there
is a good chance that my candidacy could lead to the
election of Donald Trump,» he explained in a Bloomberg View post.
The main aim
is to gather the 5 billion euros from private investors but
with an interim government and the likelihood of new
elections, many
are more reluctant on putting their money into BMPS.
Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even
with the
election of a president who
is making fossil fuel - friendly Cabinet appointments and promises to bring back coal.
But there had apparently
been several satisfied takers already, who got the opportunity to share a building
with Donald Trump and his family at various stages in the
election cycle.
A Monmouth University survey released on Wednesday — conducted by telephone, and
with a plus - or - minus 3.5 % margin of error — found that 51 % of registered voters said they would vote for or lean toward a Democratic candidate if the 2018
elections were held today, compared to just 36 % who said they would vote or lean Republican.
One option, cited by Italian newspaper La Republicca,
is where the main two parties Lega and M5S agree to allow for an interim technocratic government that would modify the electoral law and pass the budget,
with the view to return to
elections back in October.
Instead, it wants to work on a new trade deal
with the EU - at least this
was the negotiating stance before the General
Election early June.
It
's still unclear what (if any) relationship the site and Assange
's leaks had
with Russia, which the US intelligence community says
was behind hacking in the
election.