Then on Monday, I read Kristen McQueary’s column, which insulted every Democratic woman running for office in Illinois. . ..…

Similar shares of women in both parties believe that showing emotions hurts women seeking higher political office. Six-in-ten Republican women (60%) and Democratic women (62%) hold this view. ..…

Trump has the benefit of Republican Senate majority, just as Obama had the advantage of Democratic-led Senate during his first two years office. ..…

At Sept summit the focus was on elevating the voices and leadership of women of in the political arena.. ..…

FILE- In this Dec 5, 2017, file photo, former President Barack Obama address the participants at summit on climate change involving mayors from around Chicago. ..…

On the whole idea of free and fair elections, electoral integrity as it were, rests the political stability of our country and the legitimacy of democratic governments. Besides, President Buhari is a beneficiary of the framework of electoral integrity instituted by his predecessor in..…

In November 2008, Mohamed Nasheed of the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party defeated Gayoom and was inaugurated as the country’s first democratically elected leader. Nasheed was forced out of office in February 2012 after opposition protests. ..…

Some candidates get resources (from established party leaders, in her case the Democratic Party) and others get none. I want to advocate for all women running for office, especially for those that would not typically run, [such as] Black women. ..…

Former Republican Richard Painter is running in Democratic for Minnesota's US Senate despite losing the endorsement vote to Tina Smith. Smith was appointed to the office when Senator Al Franken resigned earlier this year.. ..…

Bolton has been snubbed for high office over most of his career. Though previous administrations, both Republican and Democratic, have often also been leery of working through the U.N. and recognizing institutions such as the ICC, none has come close to Trump’s and Bolton’s extreme..…

The underlying climate was social- democratic even in countries where the Socialists were not in office. ..…

Kyl, once had members of Alliance of Retired Americans arrested for trespassing while trying to deliver letter from retirees to his office.. There is clear contrast between Democratic and Republican approach to the midterm elections.  ..…

But then once in office, there’s the inability to act in ways that fundamentally change people’s lives for the better, and that’s why people become cynical. ... If we elect people who say that they’re democratic socialists to get into office, and then they go to Washington..…

Democrats receive average rating of just 45 degrees among the public, while Republicans are the only group in the survey to receive chillier rating 41 degrees on average.. ..…

This is Fisher’s second term in office. He was first elected in 2014, after losing in 2012 (when he ran as a Democrat). . ..…

The movement will grow by inspiring and supporting people to start small groups across the country and would accommodate anyone concerned about the failures of both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). We want a functioning democracy where political..…

and seeing the way their faith has been used to hurt people who are already oppressed, they're fighting back. ..…

The change does not apply to members investigated after the May vote was taken, who retain their immunity as long as they stay in office. . ... Selahattin Demirtaş, co-leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was among MPs jailed on November 4, 2016. ..…

On assumption of office, Wike’s case was seemingly pathetic, in that he was elected on the plafform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was firmly at the driver’s seat in Abuja. ..…

US President-elect Donald Trump meets with US President Barack Obama during update on transition planning in Oval Office at White House Washington DC, United States, on November 10, 2016 On Tuesday, Trump stunned the world by defeating Democratic Hillary Clinton in the US presidential..…

Intensely negative ratings of the opposing party were far in the past, even in years In 2000 only about quarter of both Democrats and Republicans had very unfavorable view of the other party by 2012 that had risen to more than four-in-ten.. ..…

That order was also never carried out, but soon after Nixon issued it, Mitchell and others came up with the idea of breaking into the Democratic committee offices. Ultimately, deceit and lawlessness forced Nixon from office, and sent twenty-two of his colleagues to jail.10 . ..…

But at least there's Democrat in Governor's office. ( Thanks to. ..…

Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights speaks at the opening of the 2016 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, Poland, September 19, 2016. . © 2016 OSCE/Piotr Markowski Action on human rights violations in the OSCE..…

When Obama took office, the 4th Circuit, based in Richmond, Va., had 11 sitting judges — six Republican appointees and five Democratic picks — and four vacancies. . ..…

Since then, the only other Catholic to secure major party nomination for the office has been John Kerry, Democrat. ..…

Grant went to the governor's office in 2008, and no action has been taken. If the newly re-elected Democratic governor won't act on the Farley Grant case, he can't be expected to commute sentences of those on death row. ..…

Her office referred questions about the moratorium to the governor's office. . . . ... Mitchell IV, a Baltimore Democrat who led the Senate fight for the moratorium last year. ..…

The crowd was undeterred by the cold as it serenaded the Democratic senator’s office with an anti-pipeline version of the song, Let it Snow: . ..…

Republicans and Democrats have moved in opposite directions in their views of effectiveness and the responsiveness of leaders Democrats have become more positive since Obama took office, while Republicans have become more negative. ..…

Although they were often propelled into office by struggle, these Black officials quickly adapted to the priorities of the state machine and the Democratic Party--even if those priorities included opposing Black activism beyond their direct control. . ..…

On the other side of Iowa, Democrats in Johnson County gear up for an Election Day ritual – supporting Democratic candidates for office. ... “You may run for office as a Democrat but I think you know once you’re in office you represent everyone, you know,..…

If they continued to spurn him in favor of the Democratic establishment, they risked being turned out of office by pro-Jackson candidates. ..…

In the case of Saudi Arabia, we went in which the government had been responsible for the propagation around the world of textbooks and other materials that called Jews pigs and Christians dogs and were filled with other hateful references. ..…

This year the office designated Uzbekistan, Burma, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan as countries of particular concern for their systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious liberty.. ..…

Wicks has never held any elected or appointed local office. Her national Democratic Party fundraising connections helped her purchase name recognition that’s the envy of every other two-year resident of AD 15! ... Wicks has never held any elected or appointed local office. Her..…

Republican David Jolly, Washington lobbyist, won closely watched House Florida on Tuesday after hammering away at Obamacare win that's bad omen for other Democratic candidates across the country. ..…

The Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union parliamentary group surprisingly voted long-standing parliamentary leader Volker Kauder out of office on Tuesday. . ..…

Senate race against incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill is deadlocked and is one of the most closely watched in the country. . ... Hawley’s office likewise found no evidence of wrongdoing by Democratic State Auditor Nicole Galloway or her office in a similar..…