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1. Electoral College -- Electoral Votes
   Electoral College projections based on state polls ... show a dead heat. Projections assuming that undecided voters will break for the challenger in typical proportions give Mr. Kerry more than 300 electoral votes.
2. Electoral College -- States
   The Electoral College is a method of indirect popular election of the President of the United States. The authors of the Constitution put this system in place so that careful and calm deliberation would lead to the selection of the best-qualified candidate. Voters in each state actually cast a vote for a block of electors who are pledged to vote for a particular candidate. These electors, in turn, vote for the presidential candidate. Each state is apportioned a number of electors equal to the total number of their Congressional delegation.
3. Electoral College -- Candidates
   The Electoral College is a majority system, not a plurality system. This means that in order to win the Electoral College, a presidential candidate has to get 270 Electoral Votes. It is important to recognize that this is still true even when a competitive third party is running a candidate for the presidency. It is not enough for one candidate to receive more Electoral Votes than the others, because they could all be below 270 votes total. Instead, a candidate must receive more Electoral Votes than all other candidates combined.
4. Presidential Debates -- Presidential Candidates
   Advisers for the Democratic presidential candidate demanded Thursday that the lights signaling when a speaker's time has expired during debates with President Bush be removed from the lecterns because they are distracting. The commission hosting the debates refused.
5. Habsburgs -- Austrian Habsburgs
   The Habsburgs eventually lost the last of their Swiss lands (including the Habsburg castle) in the early 15th century, but their centre of interests had shifted eastwards to Austria long before. In 1273 Rudolf, Count of Habsburg, was elected German King. Five years later, after he had defeated Ottokar II, King of Bohemia, in a battle at Dürnkrut in Lower Austria on 26 August 1278, he took the Austrian lands under his own administration. Austria and its associated crown lands were ruled by Habsburgs from that date until 1918, an incredible dynastic reign of 640 years by a single family.
6. Rutherford B. Hayes
   Rutherford B. Hayes was the 18th President of the United States (1877-1881.) He was born October 4, 1822 in Delaware, Ohio. He served in the military as Colonel of the 23rd Ohio during the civil war. He was wounded at the battle of South Mountain in Maryland. He was later on promoted to a brigade commander and saw action in the Shenandoah Valley. During the war Hayes was wounded five times and had his horse shot out from under him five times. For his bravery he was promoted to Brigadier General.
7. Election -- States
   "Secretary Bowen's top-to-bottom review was designed to ignore security procedures and protocols that are used during every election. Her team of hackers was given unfettered access to the equipment, the source code, and all other information on security features provided by DESI to the Secretary of State's office. And she refused to include in the review the current version of DESI's touch screen software with enhanced security features.
8. Groundhog Day -- Spring
   G[R]oundhog Day is a traditional festival celebrated in the United States and Canada on February 2. It is a cross-quarter day, midway between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox. It is ... a legend that traverses centuries, its origins clouded in the mists of time with ethnic cultures and animals awakening on specific dates.
9. Budgeting -- Planning
   IIR’s Advanced Budgeting will be an intensive and highly participative course. Please come ready to be actively involved in both discussions and a number of syndicate exercises. You will explore many dimensions of the subject and focus upon the modern budgetary tools that have emerged in recent years.
10. John Quincy Adams -- United States
    John Quincy Adams was the 6th President of the United States of America. He served one term as President (1825–1829) and then returned to Congress where he spent the remainder of his political career pursuing abolitionist motives. He was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. After graduating from Harvard College, he became a lawyer. At 26 he was appointed Minister to the Netherlands by President George Washington, then promoted to the Berlin Legation. In 1802 Adams was elected to the US Senate and 6 years later President Madison appointed him the first U.S. Minister of Russia.

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