First Minister Carwyn Jones says voters are “coming home” to Labour and sending a message to the UK government as his party makes big gains in the local elections.

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Labour retake council strongholds

The number of black and Hispanic registered voters has fallen sharply since 2008, posing a serious challenge to the Obama campaign in an election that could turn on the participation of minority voters. Read full article > >

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Voter registration down among Hispanics, blacks

Louise M. Slaughter, a 13-term New York Democrat, can only watch from a wheelchair as her Republican opponent meets voters and raises funds.

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Sidelined by a Broken Leg, Louise M. Slaughter Holds Tight to Election Hopes

Voters go to the polls for council elections in England, Wales and Scotland, and several mayoral votes and referendums also take place.

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Voters heading to polls around UK

Polls open across Wales as voters elect councillors in all but one local authority.

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Polls open for local elections

Voters in Scotland are going to the polls in an election to decide who runs the country’s 32 local councils.

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Scottish council voting under way

A Republican conference call on Thursday, titled “President Obama’s Failed Foreign Policy,” got me to thinking: How can voters hear an honest debate on national security and foreign policy issues in the presidential campaign when candidates or their supporters provide false or misleading information? Read full article > >

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Sorting through the defense distortions

1 . Conservatives care most about the size of government. They may have rallied around President Ronald Reagan’s call for smaller government three decades ago — but it’s not the 1980s anymore. Today, conservatives don’t want a reduced government so much as one that works better and wastes less. Read full article > >

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Five myths about conservative voters

French President Nicolas Sarkozy rules out doing any election deal with the far-right National Front but says its voters should not be demonised.

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Sarkozy rules out far right deal

BOULDER, Colo. — President Obama reached out to crucial young voters here and in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Tuesday with a promise to keep college affordable, in the first two of three campus appearances in battleground states this week spotlighting this key voting group. Read full article > >

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Obama takes his student loan pitch to campuses in North Carolina, Colorado

Voters in California will be asked if they want to abolish the death penalty this November, after a proposal gathered more than 500,000 signatures.

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California to get death row vote

Why French voters love to loathe their president

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Why is Nicolas Sarkozy so disliked?

Typically when a presidential candidate wraps up his party's nomination after months of reaching out to base voters in the primaries, the question becomes whether he can appeal to the political center for the general election.

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Romney faces challenge rallying right

For all her fans and campaign riches, Elizabeth Warren has a lot of work ahead to persuade voters in Massachusetts to oust Senator Scott P. Brown.

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Massachusetts Senate Race Testing Politics of Likability

Big is out. Big Oil. Big Government. Big Media. Put “Big” (the capitalization is key) in front of just about anything these days in politics and you can be certain that voters aren’t going to like it. We are in a populist time when distrust of institutions — banks, Congress — is at an all-time high and the chasm between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider. People believe the system is rigged — and they are angry. Read full article > >

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‘Big’ is bad for politicians this election year as populist sentiment prevails