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...system that will entrench his power for years to come. As The Wall Street Journal reported last Friday, hundreds of people have complained–to the election-monitoring groups that have managed to remain in the country–that they were bullied by their employers to vote for United Russia (the party associated with the current president). Opposition parties have had their pamphlets confiscated and most have been ignored by the media. In a situation like this, the Russian people are reduced to pawns with very little free choice. When threats, indoctrination and dishonesty are allowed to flourish...
...have pretty horrendous facebook pics,” he wrote in a diary entry in October 2003, referring to the undergraduate House where he resided at the time. “I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.” Facebook argued that the documents were under court seal and should not have been released. The company’s lawyers notified 02138 on Thursday morning that they had filed the motions, giving the magazine less than two days’ notice...
...opponent Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.)’s name, his rhetoric echoed many of the complaints launched against her. “I’m tired of seeing Democrats think that the only way to act tough on national security is to act tough and vote like George Bush Republicans,” he said. “My opponent won’t be able to say that I voted for the war in Iraq because I didn’t.” Some Harvard students attending the event were still unsure which candidate...
...reformers may have arrested their slide into irrelevance with yesterday's victory by Anson Chan, a widely known ex-civil servant who has refashioned herself as a champion of universal suffrage. According to returns reported Monday, Chan won about 55% of the vote in a by-election to replace Ma Lik, a prominent pro-Beijing legislator who died in August...
...Only about half of Venezuela's 16 million registered voters showed up at the polls on Sunday. Low turnout was supposed to have hurt the opposition's "no" vote; but in the end it was Chavez, thought to have a reliable populist political machine at his disposal to get out the "yes" vote, who couldn't rouse his base among Venezuela's majority poor. Even that cohort, despite having benefited from Chavez's vast socialist project, backed away from his bid to solidify "21st-century socialism," which also would have put the autonomous Central Bank under his control and exerted...