Sudan’s controversial presidential election race has been shunned by most of the opposition parties, but one politician is determined to stay the course
Fatma Abdelmahmood is one of 11candidates challenging Omar Al Bashir for the job he’s held for 20 years.
Mohammed Adow followed the 65-year-old doctor as she campaigned in Khartoum.
April 5 2010
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Religion has always played a powerful role in the Philippines, and is now emerging as a major issue with campaigning under way for forthcoming elections.
Filipinos, who will head to the polls in May to elect a new president and legislature, will also consider other familiar election themes, including corruption and family interests.
Al Jazeera’s Marga Ortigas reports. (Mar 31, 2010)
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More than $1.7 billion in big checks of $5,000 or more have been written to influence California Elections in the last five years.
Proposition 89 on California’s ballot this November will do away with such corrupting influences and return politicians to the service of the people instead of big business and multi-billion dollar lobbys.
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Carly for California released FCINO, exposing Tom Campbell as a Fiscal Conservative In Name Only. Since his flip-flop into the Senate race, Campbell has been calling himself a fiscal conservative based on his time as a member of Congress nearly two decades ago, hoping that voters will ignore his recent support for more government spending, increased borrowing, a $16 billion tax hike and a 32-cent gas tax increase.
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I felt compelled to make a video about this topic since I expect it to have huge implications for the nation’s future economic and political course.
Sorry that the video ran out a few seconds early; I couldn’t have guessed that the battery was almost dead.
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As the election campaign is over, will candidates remember their promises?
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Millions of Iraqis head to the polls on March 7 for nationwide parliamentary elections.
This time – unlike in previous years following the 2003 US-led invasion – campaign advertisements have been plastered across Iraqi cities, and local media have been airing elaborate political commercials constantly.
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It is election season in Iraq, on the 7th of March Iraqis will go to the polls and decide who will make up their next government.
Iraq’s politicians want to be part of the new parliament but they are using a very old method of speaking to voters – the political poster.
As a result, Baghdad’s printers and party activists are working around the clock.
Omar al-Saleh reporting from Baghdad.
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It is election season in Iraq, on the 7th of March Iraqis will go to the polls and decide who will make up their next government.
Iraq’s politicians want to be part of the new parliament but they are using a very old method of speaking to voters – the political poster.
As a result, Baghdad’s printers and party activists are working around the clock.
Omar al-Saleh reporting from Baghdad.
Duration : 0:1:46
The US supreme court has issued a landmark ruling that will change the way US election campaigns are financed.
By a 5 to 4 vote, the court lifted long-standing limits on corporate spending in political campaigns, opening the door for private entities to flood the political marketplace with corporate money.
Al Jazeera’s John Terrett explains why it is likely to have an immediate effect on the upcoming Congressional elections in November.
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