Snap to primaries

Meanwhile, Mr. Taylor's political party is currently divided over allegations that during the recent party primaries he made telephone calls to influence the voting, leading to the withdrawal of one candidate from the primaries.

Another proposal was to work with local leaders to establish primaries and legalize the party system.9

No incidents of violence were reported during the holding of the primaries or canvassing for members by political parties.

They cannot vote in the United States general election but are permitted to participate in presidential primaries and caucuses.

The wild thing about that trial also, was that it reduced new primaries, so new cancers, by 30 percent also.

Following the commencement of the voter registration process, political parties increased their activities, including by holding primaries to elect presidential candidates.

Narrator The following takes place between the minutes of 2 15 p.m. and 2 18 p.m., in the months preceding the presidential primaries.

Warren offers a plausible, moderate alternative approach to financial sector policy that would play well in the primaries and attract a great deal of support in the general election. Will the Democrats seize the opportunity?

Support for reform comes from across the political spectrum, whereas opponents of reform paid a high price. Indeed, three members of the outgoing parliament who supported the government were not candidates, having lost in their tribal primaries.

Primary elections for the ruling Fatah party have already taken place in several locations, but after claims of fraud and the storming of a number of Gaza polling stations by militants two days ago, the primaries were suspended.

As Governor of Massachusetts, Romney built a record as a competent and moderate conservative, a political profile that suited him to the state s electorate. But the Republican Party s far right wing dominates the primaries, so Romney has worked hard to escape the moderate label by staking out very conservative positions.

Candidate Romney was so cowed by his party s obsession with low taxes that he never put forth a budget that added up. It was left to his spinners to explain, as The Economist put it, that this was necessary rubbish, concocted to persuade the fanatics who vote in the Republican primaries.

Clearly, Caroline Kennedy, an important early supporter of President Barack Obama, is in this category. Indeed, her backing for Obama in the Democratic Party primaries in 2008, when he was still a relatively unknown senator from Illinois, gave his campaign credibility among party insiders who remain loyal to her family s legacy.

It is not yet clear whether Goodluck Jonathan will be able to translate this sectional support into enough votes in the party primaries and beyond to retain the presidency. He has the advantage of a massive war chest, given that Nigeria s leaders have always done with the public treasury what they liked.

He was famously protectionist during the primaries, declaring he would unilaterally rewrite NAFTA. But, while he has continued his softer tone since the election, he has not even bothered to ask for fast track trade promotion authority, let alone try to pump new life into the Doha Round of global trade talks.

As America s primaries move beyond Iowa and New Hampshire, it is simply impossible to predict who will be the Democratic and Republican nominees, much less who will become the 44th president of the United States. But it is not too soon to address the question of what effect US foreign policy is having on the campaign and what it reveals about how Americans see the world.