Amid the chorus of denunciations in US and European ruling circles over the alleged theft of the Iranian elections, the Obama administration and its NATO allies are presiding over an election campaign in Afghanistan that is as corrupt as it is illegitimate...

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Last November, 131 million Americans voted, and the whole world took notice. Over the last month, about 700 million Indians voted, and most Americans, like most of the world, didn't much notice.

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The embattled Republican senator says he'll reconsider running for a third term if he doesn't meet his fundraising goals.

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we really should do for the sake of the country is have investigations both of torture and of the march to war. These investigations should, where appropriate, be followed by prosecutions — not out of vindictiveness, but because this is a nation of laws.

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Congress' decision to extend a key provision in the law for 25 years that deals with election procedures is at the core of a case being argued before the justices today.

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Indians will from Thursday begin heading to the polls in a month-long election for a new government. The Congress party is standing on the record of the government it has led since 2004.

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Elections in India, the world's second-most populous country, evoke descriptions like 'spectacle' or 'carnival,' in part due to the overwhelming numbers that participate in the process.

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The list of journalists making campaign donations, and their explanations.

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Banquet Politics

I was at a banquet in Shanghai a couple of weeks ago when I had one of the most surprising conversations about the United States that I've heard in 25 years of foreign travel.

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The Alaska Board of Elections has finally updated (pdf). Democrat Mark Begich has the lead over Republican Ted Stevens, 132,196 to 131,382. More votes to be counted tomorrow and possibly Friday.

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Obama's historic achievement a true milestone for America - but for some, there are many miles yet to go...

Last night, I watched a momentous moment in the history of this nation unfold on my television screen.

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The American people yesterday demonstrated once again their unique capacity for self-renewal by electing the first black man as head of state, not much more than a generation after the country's African-Americans were accorded full civil rights.

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Two trends emerged from Tuesday's US election results: Barack Obama swept voters under 65 (it's was an absolute rout for the under 30s - 66% nationally) and the senator from Illinois appealed to the majority of women (we gals went for the Democratic president-elect by 12 percenta …

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As Blue State America celebrated and expanded into states long thought to be safely Republican, the Red State half of the country was not happy.

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Michael Tomasky, a blogger from Guardian America, comments on the business-like-ness of Barack Obama's victory speech in Chicago.

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The diehards of red and blue America seem to deny each other's legitimacy. This denial is there in the suggestion of Sarah Palin, Mr McCain's running mate, that she represents the "real" America.

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British newspaper, The Guardian, features a different approach to the US elections. Copies are fast becoming a collector's item.

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Could the big winner on Election Day be "Knight Rider"? With the race for the Oval Office considered the most exciting and dramatic narrative this fall, struggling broadcast TV shows might get some ratings relief once election fever subsides.

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Americans go into the presidential, congressional and governors' elections Tuesday in a state of anxiety about the future that is also well beyond the norm.

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A multimedia presentation from smh.com.au on the swinging states where the balance of power hangs in the US elections

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Send this Video to Sway Your Undecided Friends to Vote

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While the Republicans had the distracted media searching for links between Obama and ACORN, RNC operatives were busily completing one of the most massive voter suppression and purging efforts in American history, stealing hundreds of thousands of Democratic votes across the embat …

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Barack Obama's camp has denied he had a draft inaugural address prepared, in a bid to head off Republican accusations of arrogance and hubris 10 days before the election.

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"If al-Qaida carries out a big operation against American interests," the message said, "this act will be support of McCain because it will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaida.

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