Presidential election

In the recent decade, notwithstanding the lack of international recognition, these unrecognized republics conducted parliamentary and presidential elections, which became a symbolic act, a kind of appeal to the international community. Through such elections they demonstrated the legitimacy of the... 

Dioxin was the poisoning agent in a high profile political incident in 2004. It was ultimately identified as the cause of the disfiguring acne-like skin condition suffered by Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko a few months before the first presidential election. The suspicion is that the dioxin was placed into soup ingested by Mr. Yushenko. The... 

E. M. Queeny, Spirit of Enterprise (Charles Scribner s Sons, New York, 1943). Queeny board memberships J. O. Low, review, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 49, pp. 376-377 (1944) Russell, War and Nature, p. 89. Contributions Overacker, Funds in the Presidential Election. ... 

In 1928, a dry-wet confrontation emerged in the presidential election between Alfred E. Smith, a Catholic New Yorker, and Herbert Hoover. Hoover solemnly praised the great social and economic experiment and tightened his grip on the dry vote. 

The Nixon administration was forced to be particularly attentive to its conservative supporters in view of the presidential election in late 1972.. Predictably, Nixon came under attack from right-wing conservatives such as George Meany (an influential labor leader) and William Buckley, who led the opposition to Nixon within the Republican campaign. Two weeks after Nixon s announcement, a group of eleven prominent conservative leaders issued a public statement suspending their support for Nixon, mainly for his failure to call public attention to the deteriorated [U.S.] military position in conventional and strategic arms, and in part because of his overtures to Red China, done in the absence of any public concessions by Red China to American and Western causes. 4°... 

It s already January 2002, the campaign is under way, and the presidential elections are in May. So I imagine you had to move quickly. Is that when you called Karin ... 

My friends, both in Pasadena and in Berkeley, were mostly faculty people, scientists, classicists, and artists. I studied and read Sanskrit with Arthur Ryder. I read very widely, mostly classics, novels, plays, and poetry and I read something of other parts of science. I was not interested in and did not read about economics or politics. I was almost wholly divorced from the contemporary scene in this country. I never read a newspaper or a current magazine like Time or Harper s I had no radio, no telephony I learned of the stock market crash in the fall of 1929 only long after the event the first time I ever voted was in the Presidential election of 1936. To many of my friends, my indifference to contemporary affairs seemed bizarre, and they often chided me with being too much of a highbrow. I was interested in man and his experience I was deeply interested in my science but I had no understanding of the relations of man to his society. 

Berg, J.E. Nelson, F.D. and Rietz, T.A. (2008) Prediction market accuracy in the long run . International Journal of Forecasting, 24 285-300. The authors gathered national polls for the 1998 through 2004 U.S. Presidential elections and ask[ed] whether either the poll or a contemporaneous Iowa Electronic Markets vote-share market prediction [was] closer to the eventual outcome for the two-major-party vote split. [The authors compared] market predictions to 964 polls over the five Presidential elections since 1988. The market [was] closer to the eventual outcome 74% of the time. Further, the market significantly outperform[ed] the polls in every election when forecasting more than 100 days in advance. ... 

The 1952 U.S. presidential election was the first time that a computer was used to predict an outcome. The CBS News computer predicted that Dwight Eisenhower would defeat Adlai Stevenson, even though a number of polls predicted Stevenson s victory. Because of this discrepancy, the projection was not announced for some time. 

The UNIVAC, used to predict the outcome of the 1952 U.S. presidential election, was a warehouse-sized... 

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