BBC News Almost a million behind, Tymoshenko will contest results in court Five years on from the Orange Revolution of December 2004, the 2010 presidential election in Ukraine has lacked the drama of its predecessor, but in many ways that is a welcome sign of a country slowly moving towards a proper democracy, even if, as the events of the last week show, there is still plenty of ground to cover yet. The results were nothing short of a humiliation…
So what did the leading pollsters REALLY say? Along with OGH (Mike Smithson) and one or two other PB’ers, I attended the excellent polling conference held at the sumptuous British Academy on Pall Mall last week. Nearly all of the “big hitters†from UK opinion polling were there – names such as John Curtice, Peter Kellner, and Andrew Cooper who should hopefully be familiar to most readers of this site. Subjects included past vote weighting, telephone and internet polls, and…
Will it be a Democrat disaster in the Bay State? UPDATE: Massachusetts called for Brown (GOP) Boston Globe town-by-town results Vote count from AP Politico RCP Live Blog CNN feed Double Carpet
Your predictions revealed Many thanks to everyone who took part in the PB 2010 Prediction Competition hosted by The Election Game, with a turnout 31% up on 2009. The full summary predictions and player-by-player detail are available here, but these are the headline numbers. UK General Election Con 348 Lab 215 LD 54 Con maj 46 Labour Leader at Xmas Ed Miliband 24% David Miliband 20% Harriet Harman 19% Alan Johnson 7% There are more potential Labour leadership candidates, plus…
Will you be the Shadsy of 2010? With the new year just over a week old but with plenty of political activity already, it’s time to sharpen your punditry skills and make your predictions for what will be a big year in UK politics. For the first time, the prediction competition is being hosted by the new Election Game site. Rather like Formula One but with elections, the Game offers a full championship season, with the first deadlines being next…
The PB Competition Results Revealed It’s that time of year again – to look ahead and make resolutions, but perhaps even more importantly, to see how you fared in the PB 2009 Prediction Competition. The clear winner, including a magisterial performance in the local elections section, is Ladbrokes’ finest in the shape of Shadsy – the long hours spent looking after the Magic Sign’s politics desk have clearly paid off – congratulations Shadsy and many thanks for all your betting…
Follow today’s events as they unfold on PB Alistair Darling is expected to announce a 50% tax on bank bonuses, with a threshold possibly as low as £10,000 – story here. How does the Chancellor plan to halve the deficit within four years, and how will he tread the tightrope between the demands of the markets and the demands of the electorate? 1200 PMQs 1230 Pre-Budget Report Live coverage BBC PBR site BBC Parliament Double Carpet
Wikimedia Commons …is President Băsescu about to be toppled? Twenty years ago next month saw the bloodiest of the Eastern Europe revolutions of 1989, with the overthrow and execution of Romania’s leader Nicolae CeauÅŸescu and his wife Elena, and the takeover of power by the National Salvation Front, many of whose members had been communist officials. Today’s Romania is a very different place from its early 1990s counterpart, with the fledging democracy dominated by the NSF having settled down into…