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In the months leading up to the election of the current administration, there was an expectation that President Trump would be very good for the private student loan companies and servicers.

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- The story came to the public in part with the help of the National Enquirer, the same paper that played a prominent role in Hart's downfall in the run - up to the 1988 Presidential election..

It suggested Labour could pick up 51 % of the vote, a positive swing of 5.35 % compared to the last time elections were fought in 2014.

The firm exploited Facebook's data rules to vacuum up data from some 50 million Facebook users in 2014 as part of an operation to seed attack ads on the internet during the 2016 US election.

Over one - third of respondents (34.98 %) said they would «give up the right to vote in all elections for life» just to secure an extra 10 % in pay, while 9 % said they would «give up their child's or future child's right to vote» for the rest of their lives.

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

Which means that for now, at least, the choice remains with companies like Facebook whether to voluntarily comply with the spirit of American election law, or leave it up to users themselves to do so.

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.

The Times saw its digital subscriptions boosted by 41,000 within one week of election day and added more than 276,000 new sign - ups to its paywall plan in Q4 2016 — that's more additions than in the whole of 2013 and 2014 combined.

«In the weeks leading up to the election, they were doing 25, 30,000 doors on a weekend, getting out in front of these.

The NDP has to decide whether it will prop up the minority Liberal government, but even if it doesn't, the provincial pension plan is likely to become a key part of the Liberals» election platform.

Some Democrats also demanded the removal of a provision that allows a massive increase in individual contributions to national political parties for federal elections, potentially up to $ 777,600 a year.

With Trump's Nov. 8 election victory and his campaign promise to tear up international trade deals threatening to shatter a fragile global recovery, Singapore «s open economy remains among some of the most vulnerable markets to U.S. protectionism.

Leading up to the election, questions were raised about the security of state computer systems that protect voting data.

Wang, a top election forecaster and professor at Princeton University, had given Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton a 98 % to 99 % chance of winning in the days leading up to the election.

Regardless of how you feel about the election, we hope our data analysis encourages more people to pay close attention, and illuminates how technology is opening up new kinds of societal understanding based on mobile usage.

I think the really interesting thing that could happen leading up to the presidential election is that there will be rumblings of third parties.

Here's a timeline of WikiLeaks» correspondence with Trump Jr. leading up to and after the election, and what Trump said about WikiLeaks on the campaign trail:

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

In the run - up to his election to the firm's top spot, Germany's Manager magazine compared Barton to Barack Obama — the agent of change.

Ireland was on the verge of a snap election on Monday after the opposition party propping up the minority government said the deputy prime minister's refusal to quit would force the country to the polls next month.

That raises the possibility of court challenges by First Nations, blockades along the pipeline route between Edmonton and Kitimat, B.C., and rallies in major cities during the run - up to a federal election that must be called by October 2015.

Facebook will hire thousands of people to carry out the two new initiatives, which Zuckerberg says are meant to combat the kind of activity that allowed for Russian interference leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

In the wake of the 2016 election and reports that Russian - linked actors hijacked Facebook's service to spread fake news and other propaganda, the company has been stepping up efforts to police content on the service.

Meanwhile, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have failed to pass any significant legislation to shore up election security vulnerabilities ahead of the 2018 midterms.

The measures would provide some variation of federal support, including grants, for states to beef up security of their election infrastructures.

We took a look back at some of the major events before and after the election that led up to Comey's firing.

Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, described in his opening remarks the process by which the intelligence community concluded in January that «the Russian government pursued a multi-faceted influence campaign in the run - up to the election, including aggressive use of cyber capabilities.»

Post-election, I sent out an email to all of our subscribers and talked about my deep disappointments in the election turnout and what our plans are: to go to the red states and set up pop - ups there, talk to the other side and extend an olive branch.

The billionaire investor attended Trump's Tuesday night victory party as the election results rolled in, but left early to load up on more stock as Dow and S&P futures plunged in the middle of the night, according to CNBC.

A notorious Russian «troll factory» had a $ 1.25 million budget in the run - up to the 2016 presidential election to interfere in the US political system, according to charges filed by the Department of Justice.

When an election turns on personalities rather than policies, then when we wake up on Nov. 9, regardless of who wins, we'll be asking ourselves, now what are we going to do?

On the eve of the election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump refused to give up on Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes.

The failure of coalition talks is unprecedented in Germany's post-war history, and was likened by newsmagazine Der Spiegel to the shock election of U.S. President Donald Trump or Britain's referendum vote to leave the EU - moments when countries cast aside reputations for stability built up over decades.

Reasons have since been offered for the high - profile provincial misses — in the case of Alberta, a last - minute swing in voting intentions from Wildrose to the PCs; in B.C., the failure of those who said they'd vote NDP to show up on election day.

There had been speculation one or more of the following election promises would be included: • Increase the annual contribution limit for the TFSA to $ 10,000; • Increase the limit for Children's Fitness Credit to $ 1,000 (and make it refundable); • Introduce Adult Fitness Tax Credit of up to $ 500; • Permit income splitting of up to $ 50,000 for couples with children under 18.

In late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system security.

Instead, the ads seemed designed to sow discord and increase partisanship, perhaps revving up the weary - of - the - system sentiments that may have helped Trump with the election.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

While the Conservatives devoted considerable time and money to attacking Michael Ignatieff's character in the lead - up to the election, they shifted to matters of policy soon after the election began.

The Russian desk, which was primarily made up of bots and trolls, used fake social - media accounts to flood the internet with pro-Trump agitprop and made - up news throughout the US presidential campaign, especially in the days leading up to the November election.

The GOP took back the Senate and strengthened its hold in the House of Representatives, setting up two years of divided government leading up to the 2016 Presidential elections.

The opposition parties have panned the move as a reckless and desperate attempt to shore up votes ahead of the spring election.

Koch and many of his top donors refused to support Trump in the run - up to his election, raising questions about both his readiness for the job and his dedication to conservative principles.

The government is considering criminalising abuse of Parliamentary candidates during campaigning and elections, after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the days leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016.

Italy's fragile economy was also a feature in the run - up to the election with somewhat lackluster growth and an unemployment rate of 11.1 percent dominating the debate.

The NSA document — which the Justice Department says was stolen and leaked to The Intercept by a 25 - year - old government contractor from Georgia — concluded that «Russian intelligence obtained and maintained access to elements of multiple US state or local electoral boards» in the days leading up to the election.

Donald Trump's presidential election victory seems to have boosted shares of both Dunkin' Brands and Starbucks — but only one has lived up to its investors» expectations.

Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm contracted by the RNC as part of a push to ramp up its voter - analytics operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for those two weeks.

Both are the first in a series of digital - campaign moves that the group plans to try out in the months leading up to the election.