VAAs are a new phenomenon in modern election campaigning.

In Europe, where party discipline is strong and the parties, not the individual candidates, finance election campaigns, money plays a smaller role.

Many members are only active during election campaigns.

The campaign finance law was revised to provide additional government funding to parties that meet the quota, and to reduce the amount for parties that do not.

Fortunately, the campaign season is nearly over.

Or problems to be solved by empty campaign promises of presidents come and gone.

Hajloui accused the army of passivity in dealing with post election riots that swept Sidi Bouzid when the independent commission for the election disqualified a number of seats won by an electoral list called the Popular Petition, over campaign finance violations.

Yes, it was a clear symptom of deep political dysfunction, stemming from the politicized demarcation of electoral districts and the distorting effects of America s campaign finance system. Nonetheless, it is noteworthy that the entire crisis played out according to constitutional rules.

Some also question the timing of the amendment, coming as Indonesia's campaign season looms.

The electoral numbers perhaps best explain the immigration equation s importance in today s presidential campaigns.

In the Senate, while supporting President Bush s war of choice in Iraq, he has been prepared to stand up for his independent judgment on issues such as campaign finance reform and climate change.

Everything now is about money to run electoral campaigns, which have become incredibly expensive.

Typically, campaigns will try to canvass areas with a Stoddard of 10 or higher.

Please be reminded that during the voting process all campaigning should cease in the General Assembly Hall.

The financial rescue package should be linked to a time bound process of political transition involving broadly endorsed rules a constitution, electoral law, election finance law, and an electoral calendar.

So the questions that dominate national campaigns have little impact on European elections.

The rigors of the prolonged campaign provide voters with some clues about stamina and self discipline.

The opening of provincial electoral offices, the carrying out of political campaigns, and other visible elements of the electoral process will provide potential targets long before polling day itself.

The coming months of campaigning for the US presidency will be spent in petty brawling over what should be cut.

Since then, not even campaigning politicians have dared to promise a prosperous future.

Corporate campaign contributions increasingly undermine the democratic process, with the blessing of the US Supreme Court.

Some observers also complain about the divisive negative rhetoric and advertising that characterized the campaign.

I would like to particularly emphasize the issue of funding of the electoral process.

Frequent reports of challenges to freedom of expression and freedom of the press during the reporting period are of particular concern in relation to the upcoming electoral process, in particular electoral campaigns.

Growing inequality, combined with a flawed system of campaign finance, risks turning America s legal system into a travesty of justice.

In any US presidential election campaign, you can be sure that protectionism will break in, as it has.

Larger projects, such as the Greater Middle East initiative, are much less sustainable than targeted initiatives and are more susceptible to the exigencies of electoral campaigns.

Campaigns are always more extreme than the eventual reality, but countries should be wary of calls for transformational change.

Now it looks as though letting the market alone determine the price of risk is similarly being judged too costly for today s voters and campaign contributors to bear.

Americans have once again finished a presidential campaign season in which the quality of the debate over economic policy was abysmal.

As election campaigns beckon in some of the countries that are now debating immigration controls, this trend is unlikely to be reversed any time soon.

NEW YORK Campaigns, be they political or military, are waged to be won, and the current American presidential campaign is no exception.

Thus, corporations, as associations of individuals, have the right to spend as much as they want to disseminate their views, including in support of electoral campaigns.

Recent US elections rarely spared China, which found itself a frequent target of populist demagoguery. Its exchange rate regime, which pegs the Renminbi to the US dollar, was blamed for the mounting US trade deficit.

Some observers also complain about the divisive negative rhetoric and advertising that characterized the campaign. But this should be seen in historical perspective.

Do such post election changes in direction make a mockery of democracy? How can voters make intelligent judgments when campaigns are so carefully scripted and slickly promoted?

South Korea's Election Malpractice Prevention Act forbids publishing or quoting the results of public opinion polls, and any details of the polls, during the entire interval of a political campaign.

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Would they follow the voting patterns of their husbands?

Eliminating the purchase of air time on radio and television during campaigns, with the consequent reduction in their cost, would complement these changes.

The latter option, once unthinkable, is possible because Berlusconi is not running the type of inflammatory electoral campaign that he has in the past.

For starters, Chávez is a formidable campaigner, and he has at his disposal every available lever of state power, from the Electoral Council to PDVSA, the national oil company.

The Advisory Committee also recommends that the Mission look into the possibility of funding the P 5 Senior Electoral Operations Officer Project Manager from within the 285 million electoral assistance budget coordinated by UNDP.

As long as governments operate within these broad parameters, the US should look to itself before passing judgment on others. Vice President Joseph Biden also gave a powerful speech at the Democratic convention, in which he quoted a line from Obama s inaugural address the US should lead in the world not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.