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Goodbye 'Sweet Micky'? Martelly Serious About Leading Haiti
By Emily Troutman - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- On the Sunday night before the announcement of Haiti's preliminary election results, tensions ran high. The candidates faced a troubled electoral system, an impatient population, the never-ending sense that what can go wrong, will. At 9 p.m., hip-hop star Pras Michel took to Twitter: RT @PrasMichel Machete + gasoline + matches = the will of people Pras is an internationally known musician, the cousin and former Fugees band mate of Wyclef Jean, and he was one of the first to endorse Michel Martelly. Emily Troutman for AOL News Michel Martelly, the ...
General Counsel for GOP National Committee Resigns
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyThe general counsel for the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, resigned Sunday morning, National Journal reported on its website. His resignation appears to be a sign that the chairman of the committee, Michael Steele, will be facing more competition for his job if he seeks re-election. "In a private letter to Chairman Steele, I did resign today as general counsel," Priebus said in an e-mail to National Journal. "I appreciated the opportunity to work with all of the members that make the RNC so special." Priebus, who is also the chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party, had ...
Norm Coleman Won't Challenge Michael Steele for GOP Chairmanship
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyMake that one more thing Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has to be thankful for. Former Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, who has been mentioned as one of the potential candidates for GOP chairman, made it known last week that he does not intend to challenge Steele. Coleman said in a C-SPAN interview scheduled to be broadcast Sunday that he would not challenge Steele if he decides to run for a second term. "I am not here to do any battles with our chairman; he is a friend," Coleman said. In an interview with the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the one-term senator who ...
Opinion: 10 Years Later, Our Electoral System Is Still Broken
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(Nov. 10) -- Let's face it -- our electoral system is broken. Not completely. In most instances the system does its job and determines a winner. But if the race is close and the outcome determines who gets political power, the cracks in the structure become painfully clear. This was the real lesson of the 2000 presidential recount crisis in Florida: In close elections, when every vote counts, our electoral machinery is not up to the job. Sadly, this lesson was lost in the controversy ignited by the Supreme Court's unprecedented ruling in Bush v. Gore, in which a five-justice majority ...
Minnesota Governor's Race Could Be Heading for Recount
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailySix days after the election, no winner has been declared in the race for governor of Minnesota, even though the Democratic candidate, Mark Dayton, was leading his Republican opponent, Tom Emmer, by 8,751 votes on Monday. Under Minnesota law, an automatic recount must be conducted at public expense if the margin of victory is less than a half of one percentage point, or in this case about 10,500 votes, according to The Associated Press. But a trailing candidate can choose to waive the recount. About 2.1 million ballots were cast in the election. Emmer's attorney, Tony Trimble, was asked ...
Bush v. Gore: The Disputed Election Fades Into History
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyExactly ten years ago, on November 7, 2000, the presidential election pitting Al Gore against George W. Bush morphed into the legal recount contest ultimately titled Bush v. Gore. The sitting vice president, Gore, won the national popular vote. The former Texas governor, Bush, was awarded the electoral votes of Florida and thus the election. Amid evidence of voter chaos over "butterfly ballots," poll police, and more, Gore challenged the Florida results in court. It took five tortuous weeks, in courtrooms from Tallahassee to West Palm Beach to Washington, and unprecedented intervention by ...
Today in Voter Fraud: Hysteria or Imminent Threat?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 27) -- As another election draws near, it's worth asking: Which is the larger problem in America, voter fraud or voter intimidation? On Tuesday, 47 people in Minnesota were charged with voter fraud stemming from the 2008 general election, Minnesota Public Radio reported. That location is significant, as conservative activists have long alleged that Sen. Al Franken was only elected because of voter fraud. Unfortunately for the groups trying to prove that Norm Coleman was the real winner of the contest, initial claims that some 1,250 people had acted to throw the election Franken's way ...
7 Politicians Who Claim God Is on Their Side
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(Sept. 30) -- To hear them tell it, they're on a mission from God. This week, Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell declared that God himself had a hand in her long pursuit to attain political office. "God continued to strengthen and empower us when, you know, his strength is perfected in our weakness," O'Donnell told the Christian Broadcasting Network. "Because you see that if it weren't for faith, when all logic said it's time to quite, we pursued, we marched on, because we knew God was not releasing us to quit." Whether or not you agree with O'Donnell's views, the belief ...
Proofiness: Using Numbers to Fool People and Shape Political Debate
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyStephen Colbert coined the word "truthiness" for things we intuitively know are true, based on our gut, as opposed to facts. The term had its heyday during the Bush era when we fought a war "knowing" Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons. Now Charles Seife, who teaches journalism at New York University, is coming out with a book, "Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception." It demonstrates in compelling and often amusing detail how numbers, which are supposed to be the arbiters of truth, are routinely used to advance lies and undermine democracy. Seife reminds us how a single senator ...
New Breed of GOP Groups Rises to Party's Challenges
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 7) -- Depending on whom you ask, the proliferation of new conservative groups here represents either a "shadow" Republican Party aimed at getting around the dysfunctional real thing or a political renaissance by a GOP that sees its best chance in years to regain power in the capital. A combination of factors -- from the gaffe-prone chairman of the Republican National Committee to the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United case to the Democrats' continued unpopularity -- has spurred a new generation of right-leaning advocacy groups, think tanks and polling groups. Among the ...
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