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...mean-spirited policies favored by the National Front, de Villiers has often been belittled as "Le Pen Lite." He's clearly looking to change that - and not just with his trademark warning of a nefarious "Islamization of France." With Le Pen uncharacteristically quiet and politically dormant since reaching the run-off in the 2002 presidential race, de Villiers' has been busy trying to win National Front voters over with depiction of Le Pen as an old, spent force - and himself as an experienced legislator capable of bringing the extreme right's ideals to power at long last...
...split between Le Pen, de Villiers and presidential frontrunner Sarkozy could actually hurt the right's prospects. If Le Pen and Sarkozy were to savage one another ahead of the first round of presidential voting, after all, it could lead embittered backers of whichever candidate doesn't make the run-off to withhold their votes in the second round - or cast them for the probable Socialist finalist out of spite. "In either scenario, the short-term winner of a split is the left," Reyni? says...
...said she would bring “creativity, humor, spunk, a little bit of irreverence, persistence, and boundless energy” to the House. In the initial vote, Leng finished with 99 votes, while Cullen and Kearney tied with 67 votes each. Cullen and Kearney tied again in a run-off election, 90-90. The HoCo initiated an unprecedented second run-off election, but canceled it within hours after the committee realized that users could vote multiple times on the website the House was using, www.surveymonkey.com. The candidates expressed relief and enthusiasm for the upcoming year...
...meeting late Thursday night, Badaracco and the outgoing HoCo members decided to hold an unprecedented second run-off election. But after the committee realized that users could vote multiple times from the same link using different computers, Badaracco canceled the election...
...When the initial vote for HoCo co-chairs closed last Tuesday, Techrosette Leng ’07 held the lead with 99 votes, while candidates Christopher S. Cullen ’07 and Geoffrey D. Kearney ’07 tied with 67 votes each. A run-off election between Cullen and Kearney resulted on Thursday in an unlikely second tie, with both candidates garnering 90 votes...