'Incivil' U.S. Vote Seen Key to Year's Top Words
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The electoral shorthand for a  divided America and the perceived nastiness of the U.S.  presidential race generated the defining words and phrases of  the year, a Web site specializing in language said on Friday.
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The month of November in a US presidential-election year is not supposed to be particularly eventful, but this year may be an exception, in the light of the gathering storm over
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Boston - A four-letter term that came to symbolise the difference between old and new media during this year&#39;s presidential campaign tops United States dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster&#39;s list of the 10 words of the year.
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National security and the war in Iraq will be the centerpieces of the White HouseÂs strategy for helping Republicans in this yearÂs election.
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WASHINGTON - National security issues such as the war in Iraq and terrorism are dominating voters' attention in the final weeks before Election Day, Associated Press polling found.    Along with security issues like war and terrorism, the economy and health care were near the top of the list of the nation's most important problems in an AP-Ipsos poll...
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Will "landslide" win by a landslide? Will "sectarian," "vendetta" or "decider" be named 2006's word of the year?
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Washington, Dec. 21 (PTI): A majority of Americans among those who believed at the beginning that the Iraq war would be swift and victorious now think it was a mistake and the January 30 elections to be held in the country would not be honest.
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This year's presidential election began with Iowa's caucuses back in January, and it could be determined by how Iowans vote Nov. 2.
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When Americans go to the polls in November, they will confront a voting system beset by many of the same problems that produced the bitterly disputed outcome four years ago.
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State by state and poll by poll, surveys of US voters suggest today&#39;s election between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry will be a repeat of 2000, one of the closest in US history.
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Comment is free: Michael Tomasky: Whichever candidates the voters nominate, the choice before Americans in November 2008 will be stark indeed
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In the US, we hasten to add The truly repulsive "w00t" has been crowned Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007 - based on "thousands" of votes from visitors to the dictionary's website.â¦
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U.S. News & World Report - Americans had ethics on their mind when they took control of Congress away from Republicans. In fact, 41 percent of voters in a post-election survey said corruption and scandals were "extremely important" factors in their vote. And both the winners and the losers promised to heed the message; Republicans said they'd learned their lessons, while Democrats pledged substantive reforms. Steny Hoyer, the current minority whip, followed that lead in a meeting with reporters, as he talked of the Democrats' legislative priorities come January. ...
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Voter turnout is expected to be high in the US election, according to recent polls, and many Americans have already cast their ballots in record early voting.
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As the presidential campaign got underway a year ago, the candidates faced a volatile political environment dominated by the Iraq war, illegal immigration and terrorism. A year later, the campaigns are rewriting their scripts as it appears that the race may actually be shaped once more by the eco...
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A US dictionary publisher declares "blog" as one of the words of the year.
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The Iraq war and war on terror have helped push foreign policy to the top of voters' concerns, ahead of traditional election issues like unemployment and health services, according to a poll published by the Financial Times (FT).