Sentences with phrase «first presidential election»

Mohamed A. Mohamed, 54, a former prime minister of Somalia who worked at the state Department of Transportation office in Buffalo and lives in Grand Island, was elected president of Somalia today in that war - torn African country's first presidential election in decades.

When I watched it in 1999, it looked like a sarcastic story inspired by Bill Clinton's first presidential election campaign in 1992, but now the movie looks more like a timeless political comedy drama which understands a lot about how politicians alternatively dazzle and disappoint us with their better and worse sides.

Exactly 19 years after contesting against each other in Nigeria's first Presidential election of the 4th Republic, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, will on Tuesday meet at Obasanjo's Abeokuta residence with one agenda: how to unseat President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.

Especially since this is my first presidential election as a US citizen who is eligible to vote.

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

This is our first presidential election without cable TV, and we love it.

The first presidential election I remember was in 1984.

I thought it would be interesting to look at a more manageable problem, the first Presidential election in 1788.

The first presidential election in April was boycotted by the CHP.

The victory of Louis - Napoleon Bonaparte in the first presidential election with universal male suffrage, the imperial impulse of the Bonapartist government, and, finally, the overthrow of the Second Republic following Louis - Napoleon's coup d'état in 1851, did not fail to raise doubts and questions.

1996 was the first presidential election campaigns where candidates actually had websites and those were mostly just online pamphlets.

Neither was the choice of the Founders when they went back to their states to organize the nation's first presidential election.

2012 will also be the first presidential election since 1908 in which no state has a primary screen - out for all methods to the general election ballot.

Chelsea Clinton, who is expecting her second child this summer, told a room full of supporters at the IBEW Local 191 union hall, this will be the first presidential election she'll be voting in as a mother.

The letter says: «For the international community alike, this is a natural time to take stock of the progress we have achieved since the first presidential elections and to assess the challenges that still lie ahead.

The 2012 presidential election is the first presidential election since 1984 in which every state has some means to get a presidential Read more»

This is the first presidential election where Wisconsin voters are required to show photo identification to cast a ballot.

This year is the first presidential election since 1964 in which no independent presidential candidate petitions succeeded in Mississippi.

«He lost his job in the first presidential election, the second election came around, and I ended up losing my job.»

We're far, far to the right of where we were when I voted in my first presidential election (Nixon's second term, though I didn't vote for him).

1976 was the first presidential election in which public money was made available.