Mitofsky remembered as exit poll pioneer
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In four decades of election polling, Warren Mitofsky pioneered the science that has quickly shown voters in America and abroad who won their elections and why.
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Exit polls in Sunday&#39;s presidential election put opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko ahead of the prime minister, and fears of violence rose as
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NEW YORK, Feb. 28 -- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He was 89.
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The popularity of President Vladimir Putin's favored successor soared in an opinion poll released on Thursday and Putin critic Garry Kasparov pulled out of the contest.
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Last May, David Blunkett described how he wanted his political career to come to a close. âYou know it will come to an end, and you want it to end with memories of having made a difference, of feeling satisfied.
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Comment is free: Michael Tomasky: The veteran Arizona senator's popularity with independent voters could be enough to make him unstoppable
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Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine&#39;s former prime minister who is seeking to bring the country closer to the European Union, won the first round of voting to choose a successor to President Leonid Kuchma, an exit poll showed.
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OISKHARA, Russia - A man tried to bring a suspicious package to a polling station in Chechnya on Sunday during a presidential election, then died in an explosion as he ran away, the head of the Chechen election commision said on Russian television.    The Chechens voted for a president to replace the Kremlin-backed leader who was killed in a bomb blast in May...
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KIEV, December 4 (Itar-Tass) - The delegates to the Congress of Councils in Kharkov, eastern Ukraine, on Saturday urged Viktor Yanukovich and Viktor Yushchenko to withdraw from the revote in the second round of presidential elections set for December 26.
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Women returned solidly to Hillary Rodham Clinton's side, helping her overcome Barack Obama's advantage among the large independent bloc in New Hampshire's Democratic primary, an exit poll found. John McCain's experience, reputation for "straight talk" and appeal among moderates helped him beat Mitt Romney in the Republican contest.
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Gleb Pavlovsky, president of the Effective Policy Foundation who is traditionally associated with the Kremlin, explained the failure of his anti-Yushchenko strategy during the Ukrainian election by saying he ...
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President Vladimir Putin's favored successor is best placed to win Russia's presidential election, a poll showed on Thursday as Putin critic Garry Kasparov pulled out of the contest.
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Â·  Political scientist loses bid after four to three vote Â·  Rancour lives on in Jewish and academic worlds
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK In the final stretch of the 2006 midterm elections, famed reporter Tom Edsall started his day with a virtual information overload Â reading no less than 10 blogs to keep abreast of the 24-hour coverage of Senate and House races across the nation. It's as if he's been doing it for all 65 years of his life Â instead of for the first time. In reality, neither he nor anyone else in politics had even heard of a blog during the last midterm election Â and since then, it's hard for many reporters to remember the time when they were considerably less connected.
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Behind President Reagan's famous challenge to Gorbachev, delivered 20 years ago today, that helped end the Cold War
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Voters fill out their ballots at the 20th Precinct in West Bloomfield, Mich., on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004. Barbara Lang, third from the left, was the first person to vote.
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The two rivals in Ukraine&#39;s re-run of a rigged presidential election made last-minute pitches to voters on Friday, closing a campaign that has thrown the country into turmoil and could put a West-leaning reformer in office.