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...Even if the issues with seating the Florida delegates are resolved, I still don't intend on endorsing a candidate," said Ron Klein, a freshman congressman from Boca Raton who won his seat from Republican Clay Shaw with 51% of the vote. "I have excellent relations with both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama and they both understand my position. Why would I endorse and risk alienating a group of Democratic voters in a reelection race that promises to be incredibly close...
...bulk of them, 15, have gone for Obama. Clinton has the support of the four New York freshmen plus Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania, and the remaining 20 are undecided. If you add in the four Democrats who have been elected in special contests since 2006, Clinton gains one more vote, California's Laura Richardson; Obama wins another, Illinois' Bill Foster; and two more are still undecided...
...rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) at the ballot box, but they're hoping that what the electorate denied them might be granted by the judiciary. To popular disbelief, the country's secularist chief prosecutor has applied to ban the ruling party, reelected last July with 47% of the vote, on the grounds that it is supposedly seeking to destroy secularism. The move comes on the heels of a controversial government move to overturn a ban on wearing headscarves at universities...
...Since the signatures were published last Monday, Hekmat has had little sleep. There has been an onslaught of attacks against her in the conservative press, claiming that she has forged many of the signatures. "I don't understand," she says incredulously. "All I have done is encourage people to vote for the reformists, who are legitimate candidates that have been approved by the Guardian Council [the clerical body that vets candidates for election]. It's not like I have boycotted the elections...
...Even Mirtahmasb, whose apathy is in part rooted in his frustration over three years of lost work, betrays a hint of struggling with the reformist dilemma: He remains intensely curious about whether others will vote...