Tjspragg : Resurrecting a favourite app... Tjspragg : Packing some election reads... Speeches and Statements | United States Mission to the European Union. November 7, 2012 - 8:30 AM Remarks by U.S. Ambassador to the EU, William E. Kennard, at U.S. Election Returns Event, Brussels City Hall. As Prepared for Delivery. Thank you all for coming. I am now at an age when it is very rare for me to stay up all night. As I stood here watching the President a few moments ago as he thanked the Nation for electing him to another term as President, a flood of memories from the last election came to me. I will never forget where I was on election night four years ago. It was a moment that I will never forget. But after that, something incredible happened.
The election four years ago was deeply personal for me and my family. When Barack Obama was elected president he smashed one of the last glass ceilings in America. In many ways, those tears in Grant Park four years ago marked a new reality for our country: that America would never be the same again. Much will be written about the election that we just witnessed. For all the details on Mitt Romney's 5 trillion dollar tax plan visit ROMNEYTAXPLAN.COM. Tjspragg : . @_adrineh_'s #election2012...
Public Policy Polling. Swing-State Map, List & Polls. There's Something About Arizona. Timothy Egan on American politics and life, as seen from the West. We interrupt reality to bring you Arizona, once known as the Grand Canyon state. So glorious, this home to sublime cacti and ugly javelina, an outdoor stage for the high histrionics of geologic time, but so very, very crazy. Even a spate of recent temperatures in the 105-degree range cannot explain the latest doings of government by crackpots. Let’s start with the secretary of state, a wide-eyed fellow named Ken Bennett. Ross D. Bennett got right on it.
In response, more than 17,000 people this week put their names on an online petition asking the secretary of state to investigate whether Mitt Romney is a unicorn. A headline in the Arizona Republic — “Once Again, Arizona is the Nation’s Laughingstock” — was too kind. Dumber is another duly elected official, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio is now spending taxpayer money doing what a small group of Tea Party birthers have asked him to do. Ross D. As it happened: Egypt presidential election. French parties target London expats in bid for key votes | World news | The Observer. In the window of Librairie La Page, a French bookshop in London's South Kensington, a board game is on display. Packaged in hues of red, white and blue, it is called Elisez-moi (Elect Me) and the cover features a line-up of grinning presidential candidates.
In the centre there is a slightly careworn Nicolas Sarkozy, whose current approval ratings are unpromising. Next to him, looking considerably more chipper, is François Hollande, leader of the French Socialist party and favourite to win the May elections, according to a recent poll that gave him the support of 32% of voters – 7% more than Sarkozy. "I still don't know how I'm going to vote," says Thibault Appell, a 25-year-old bookseller who has been living in London for three months and is from Paris.
"The only thing I know is that it's not going to be for the right or for Sarkozy [leader of the conservative UMP party] because they've ruined my country. " Welcome to "Londres". "I've been getting a generally positive reaction," she says.