In a blowout presidential election, a few large issues dominate. In a tight election, a range of smaller concerns — important to strategic constituencies in battleground states — can end up being crucial. Read full article > >

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Catholics won’t go quietly

A “devoted” 79-year-old woman who was shot by police with a Taser gun after stabbing her husband 17 times is spared jail.

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Wife stabbed Alzheimer’s husband

The deal between Fatah and Hamas outlines work on registering voters for elections that would bring in a new unity government.

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Hamas and Fatah Agree in Cairo to Begin Work on Elections

Tomislav Nikolic, an ardent admirer of Russia, won 49.8 percent of the vote compared with 47 percent for Boris Tadic, the former president.

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Nationalist Declares Victory in Serbian Presidential Runoff

People in the Dominican Republic vote for a new president, in a tight contest between two old political rivals and a campaign dominated by inflation concerns.

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Dominicans voting for president

Voters in Serbia have a choice between a reformist and a nationalist as they vote for a president, months after winning EU candidate status.

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Serbia votes for new president

Residents in the Libyan city of Benghazi vote in local council elections, the first polls held in the city since the 1960s.

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Benghazi votes in local elections

In vote Saturday.

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NAACP Endorses Gay Marriage

Advisers say voter-access laws threaten re-election.

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Obama Campaign Fights Voter-ID Laws

President Obama’s reelection campaign launched a national drive Friday to counter new restrictive voter-access laws, which advisers said threaten his electoral chances in November. Organizers will fan out in key swing states this weekend to teach volunteers and voters how to navigate a series of laws passed by Republican-controlled state legislatures imposing stricter identification requirements, limiting early voting and making it harder to organize voter-registration drives. Read full article > >

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Obama campaign working to counter new voter ID laws

Greater Manchester voters are to be polled over whether they want a referendum on UK membership of the European Union.

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Voters asked about EU referendum

Asks voters to call him on his “B.S.”

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Obama Campaign Counters Rove Attack

Both candidates and their allies are pouring money into commercials to win over voters who might not be paying much attention.

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Campaign Ads Early and Aggressive

Let’s say you are a devoted fan of Kurt Vonnegut ’s books, love the sardonic comeuppance stories of John Collier and Roald Dahl , own all of Edward Gorey ’s little albums and enjoy watching reruns of “The Twilight Zone.” Where else can you find similar instances of sly, macabre wit, of such black-humored, gin-and-tonic fizziness in storytelling? Read full article > >

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The decisive reelection loss of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has many wondering what lies ahead for a Europe divided on how to grapple with its current debt crisis — which, we suppose, is one way of looking at things. Read full article > >

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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: What’s next for supermodel-turned-first lady? Back to music career