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U.S. Presidential Election: November America
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If the U.S. Presidential election were being held today, American CFOs would vote in a Republican candidate, with Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, and Fred Thompson, former Senator from Tennessee, the front runners. Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, and John McCain, Senator from Arizona, were the third and fourth most popular choices. Hillary Clinton, Senator from New York and the CFOs' most popular Democratic candidate, received 6 percent of the votes.
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The United States presidential election of 1972 was waged on the issues of radicalism and the Vietnam War. The Democratic nomination was eventually won by George McGovern, who ran an anti-war crusade against incumbent President Richard M. Nixon, but was handicapped by his outsider status and having to fire his vice presidential candidate. Nixon, proclaiming that peace was at hand in Vietnam because of his policies, ridiculed McGovern as the radical candidate of "acid, amnesty and abortion." The election took place on November 7, 1972. Nixon won the election in a landslide, with a 23.2% margin of victory in the popular vote, the 2nd largest such margin in Presidential election history.
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Joseph Cannon in Cannonfire blogs an excellent summary of the most recent analysis (PDF) of the 2004 American Presidential election (PDF summary of the analysis). Comparing exit poll results with the official count across the country, and carefully filtering out rationalizations for the unprecedented discrepancies, leaves only the conclusion that the vote was fixed, and almost certainly fixed at the level of computer counting (they may have done it as simply as having the computers record some Kerry votes as empty ballots, or 'undervotes'). It's about a one-in-a-million chance that the exit polls were that far off, and the only Americans who get to know about it are those lucky enough to live in Akron, Ohio. The last two paragraphs of the report [italics in the original] are careful but clear:
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The civil war in Iraq will seriously shape the U.S. presidential election next year. At the moment, the timetable wars between Congress and the White House may seem too onerous to follow. But beyond day-to-day politics, the situation in Iraq will shape myriad contenders’ appeal to the American people, whose growing resentment toward the war will determine the leader of the not-so-brave new world.
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Declare Yourself is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign to energize and empower every eligible 18-year-old in America to register and vote in the 2008 presidential election. Partnering with leaders in education, the entertainment industry, popular online destinations and media outlets, the fashion industry and retailers, Declare Yourself registered well over one million people in the 2004 and 2006 elections at http://www.declareyourself.com/. Declare Yourself, founded by Norman Lear, was launched in 2003 as the culmination of the Declaration of Independence Road Trip, a nationwide multi-media exhibit and tour of an original copy of the Declaration of Independence.
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As the proportion of citizens casting ballots before election day grows, it will become more appropriate to think of the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November — America's traditional presidential election day — not as "election day" but as "counting day." Even though early ballots are becoming more popular, they are not counted until late on election day, so that no information can be released before the polls close about which candidate is ahead or behind. This sort of advance information could affect campaign styles and effort, as well as voter turnout.
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