'Mystery Candidate' Wins Without Campaign
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Steve Rocco didn't file a candidate statement or mount a campaign for the school board. He's unknown to teachers and the district and only barely known to his neighbors. Nonetheless, the man being called a "mystery candidate" easily beat an opponent who is active, and relatively well known, in the Orange Unified School District. Now all that's left is to find him.
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Strange twists may lie ahead in an already suspenseful presidential race: a disputed ballot count, an inconclusive vote ultimately resolved by lawmakers or even a sentiment-shifting capture of Osama bin Laden are just a few possibilities and bizarre twists.
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Some say sport and politics do not mix, but John Kerry believes a strange sporting omen has ensured his success in the US presidential election.
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Strange twists may lie ahead in an  already suspenseful presidential race: a disputed ballot count,  an inconclusive vote ultimately resolved by lawmakers or even a  sentiment-shifting capture of Osama bin Laden are just a few  possibilities and bizarre twists.
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It goes without saying that the presidential election is fought and won in the media, primarily in its visual vanguard. So far nobody has claimed that the result of Bush-Kerry depends on how they fare in some newspaper interview.
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Usually, the heightened competitiveness of an election contest can be detected by the increased visibility of the challenger candidate. But sometimes, it is an unusually big investment by the incumbent party thatÃ¢ÂÂs the giveaway.
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He approached the campaign like a business venture, but discovered that politics is different. Now he's out of the race
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Okay, wonks: Think you know how the political game works?
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Is that poor restaurant worker who gave $1,000 to the campaign a real donor, or an illegal proxy? That's the question every campaign is trying to figure out how to answer
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Under the unwritten rules of U.S. election politics, candidates and campaigns never publicly doubt they will win.
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After months of campaigning, millions of dollars spent and hundreds of speeches, Republican presidential candidates are locked in a tight bunch with none emerging as the clear-cut leader.
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The come-from-behind candidate scores an impressive win over Mitt Romney in the nation's first primary, while the Clinton-Obama race appears tighter than expected
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SARASOTA, Fla., Nov. 28 -- Almost since the time the votes were tallied here on election night, the race for Florida's 13th Congressional District has been surrounded by a contentious mystery:
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The Trail | Party is without a candidate who has excited the establishment or the grassroots.
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Hamid Karzaiâs victory in Afghanistanâs first presidential election could be sealed within days, a top election adviser said today - unless investigators uncover major fraud.
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A six-term incumbent congressman emerged Saturday as the apparent winner of a hotly contested primary after officials finished counting more than 11,000 provisional ballots.
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When the election comes around, political parties push to get out the vote. This often entails a canvassing process where volunteers go door-to-door, frequently with imprecise information. A little-known start up is determined to challenge that assumption by offering an intelligent approach to canvassing.