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The difference is that RON is a vote against all candidates in FPTP (first-past-the-post) and all subsequent candidates in an IRV or STV election. RON is not strictly a none of the above candidate in transferable vote elections, as when RON is eliminated during the count its votes are transferred to other candidates if those preferences exist.
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
The toast refers to the secessionist dispute that began during the Nullification Crisis and it became a slogan against nullification in the ensuing political affair. "Tippecanoe and Tyler too", popular slogan for Whig Party candidates William Henry Harrison and John Tyler in the 1840 U.S. presidential election.
Against All Odds: Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu's Rough Journey to State House is a biography of Zambia's former President Edgar Lungu by the Zambian journalist and senior diplomat Anthony Mukwita, published by Partridge Africa on 5 January 2017.
Like a lot of political vocabulary—see also: "left" and "right"—the political meaning of "conservative" came as a result of the French Revolution of 1789, when democratic radicals deposed the ...
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A conceptual diagram illustrating political triangulation. In politics, triangulation is a strategy associated with U.S. President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. The politician presents a position as being above or between the left and right sides or wings of a democratic political spectrum. It involves adopting for oneself some of the ideas of one ...
Hillary Clinton's odds stood at -323 at the 75 day mark, but Clinton went on to lose the election in one of the two times the betting underdog won on election night.