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Category: Party matters

Sanders does the right thing

Bernie Sanders bows out, doing his best to unite the party for the challenge of beating Donald Trump.

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Charles Richardson Party matters, Personalities, United States 4 Comments 9 April 202017 February 2022

Vote later or vote postal?

Wisconsin looks like going to the polls tonight despite the coronavirus. That's a bad idea, but universal postal voting isn't a good thing either.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Elections, Electoral law, Party matters, United States 8 Comments 7 April 2020

Starmer gets the job

Britain's Labour Party elevates its leading pro-European to the leadership, with a mandate to reconcile the irreconcilable.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Elections, Europe, Party matters, Personalities 8 Comments 6 April 202026 January 2022

National unity, of a sort, in Israel

Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc, now fracturing the opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. A new government is finally on the way.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Middle East, Party matters 2 Comments 30 March 202030 March 2020

Let’s talk about Jacinda Ardern

New Zealand opts for reproductive choice, raising questions about the nature of the coalition led by its progressive prime minister.

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Charles Richardson Oceania, Party matters, Political issues 9 Comments 26 March 202014 April 2026

A presumptive nominee. So what next?

Joe Biden and the Democrat leadership are turning their focus away from the nomination contest and towards the general election. But they're doing so in unpredictable times.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Party matters, United States Leave a comment 23 March 2020

Florida, Illinois, Arizona – live

Covid-19 is disrupting the electoral process in the United States, but three out of four primaries are still going ahead. Check out the results as they come in.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Party matters, United States 4 Comments 18 March 202018 March 2020

Another good week for Joe Biden

Bernie Sanders has just one shot left in the locker. Barring something very unexpected, the Democrat race should be all over by the middle of next week.

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Focus on Michigan

With six states voting today, it looks as if Michigan could be the last stand for Bernie Sanders.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Party matters, United States 1 Comment 11 March 2020

Making sense of Malaysia

A complicated political crisis in Malaysia threatens to undo the historic election result of 2018, with some lessons for the rest of us.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Party matters, Political issues, South-East Asia 6 Comments 10 March 2020

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