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...mandatory caps on carbon emissions. Washington is finally awakening from its slumber, with Congress hammering out the first increase in auto fuel economy standards since 1984, and with the first real piece of climate-change legislation - a bill sponsored by Senators John Warner and Joseph Lieberman - ready for a vote in the Senate...
...think a lot of the people who voted last year aren’t voting this year because they think Matt doesn’t need the votes,” McGowan said. “Whereas outsider candidates are really motivating people to vote who might not traditionally vote...
...ways our entire campaign has been about combating voter apathy rather than selling the candidates,” she said. “It was less about convincing people to vote for Matt and Randall, it was about convincing people to vote...
...champion. He is constantly overshadowed by his mentor and predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who gained immense popularity with pension schemes for the poor and construction projects for the middle class. Lopez Obrador lost the 2006 presidential race to conservative Felipe Calderon by less than 0.5 percent of the vote in an election that was decided in the courts. The charismatic silver-haired leftist claims he was robbed, and calls himself "Mexico's legitimate President" at mass meetings and marches, where Ebrard sometimes takes second place on the stage...
...fair: Emergency rule will not be lifted until December 16, leaving candidates little more than three weeks of campaigning; several provincial candidates may have to campaign while under house arrest; and Sharif himself has been barred from running for Prime Minister. Rumors abound of electoral rigging, ballot stuffing and vote-buying. Given the fraught campaigning atmosphere, candidates are struggling to get the public's attention. Highly publicized discussions between Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party about a controversial call for a cross-party election boycott substitute...