First lady the favorite as Argentines vote
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Argentines appeared certain to choose their first elected female president on Sunday, with first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner favored to win by a wide margin over her closest rival, another woman.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton enjoys a major head start over Barack Obama in wooing Hispanic voters, who could prove crucial in Tuesday's 22-state Democratic presidential showdown.
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Argentina's legendary first lady Eva Peron died more than 50 years ago but she is still a force in this year's presidential election.
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Romanians went to the polls to elect a president in a second-round run-off vote pitting Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, the favourite, against Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu.
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Cristina FernÃ¡ndez de Kirchner was leading in early official results. She will need to win 45 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez claimed victory in Argentinaâs presidential election Sunday, with early results and exit polls suggesting she had avoided a runoff.
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BUCHAREST  - Romanians went to the polls to elect a president in a second-round run-off vote pitting Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, the favourite, against Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu.
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People in Uzbekistan vote in a presidential election widely expected to be won by incumbent Islam Karimov.
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More than four in 10 French and Germans would like to see Democratic candidate and former first lady Hillary Clinton elected US president in 2008, a survey by a Canadian pollster showed on Wednesday.
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Uruguay strengthened South America&#39;s political tilt to the left, electing the country&#39;s first leftist president as part of a regional shift by voters disenchanted by US
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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will become Argentina's first elected woman leader, but her husband, President Nestor Kirchner, is expected to stay active behind the scenes.
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Candidates in Sunday's presidential election in Argentina make final bids for votes as campaigning ends.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will become Argentina's first elected woman leader after easily winning a presidential vote that was largely a referendum on her husband's economic successes.
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The leading candidates in Argentina's presidential election Sunday:
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She supports same-sex marriages and decriminalizing abortion, and admits to smoking pot one time &amp;#151; and inhaling. The chances are next to nil that plainspoken feminist Patricia Mercado, Mexico&#039;s most liberal presidential candidate, will win election. But some say she may ruin the main leftist Democratic Revolution Party&#039;s best shot at the presidency.
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BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 27 -- If the latest polls are right, the only real suspense that remains in Sunday's election is whether Argentine first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will receive enough votes to win the presidency outright or be forced into a runoff next month.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was hailed by her husband Saturday as the best Democratic choice for the White House at a rally just uptown from his Harlem office where they were greeted by the sweet sounds of the Abyssinian Baptist Church choir and the handclaps of its congregation.