India went to the polls just over two months later.
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In February, Iranians went to the polls for yet another
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Then Christians went to the polls, and God showed up.
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About 51 percent of Story County's voters went to the polls.
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Democracy delayed On December 30, 2018, Congo went to the polls.
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But only 36.5 percent of eligible voters went to the polls.
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Idaho, Oregon and Nebraska also went to the polls on Tuesday.
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They follow Bangladesh, the eighth largest, which went to the polls last Sunday.
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But there have also been bright spots since Britons went to the polls.
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In May voters went to the polls for a long-delayed parliamentary election.
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Turnout was low; just 13m of Colombia's 35m voters went to the polls.
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Almost 70% of all Nevada voters went to the polls early in 2012.
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Two days before voters went to the polls, Comey re-cleared Clinton. 201763.
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When America went to the polls in 21, voters chose chaos over consistency.
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" "So when the people went to the polls to vote, it's like, 'Whoop.
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Voters went to the polls for primaries in Georgia, Arkansas, Texas and Kentucky.
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Democratic voters also went to the polls in Michigan, Mississippi, on Tuesday night.
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Only a quarter of registered voters went to the polls—a record low.
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Five states recently went to the polls to elect representatives to their respective assemblies.
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This is not what Americans wanted when they went to the polls in 2016.
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Voters went to the polls Monday in what was seen as a tight race.
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Burundians went to the polls to cast their votes in the referendum May 17.
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Voters in California, New Jersey and other states went to the polls on Tuesday.
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On Tuesday, our nation went to the polls and elected Donald J. Trump, president.
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To the Editor: I went to the polls with a clothespin on my nose.
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A week ago, several million Australians went to the polls in another touchstone election.
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Voters in Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon and Pennsylvania went to the polls for primary elections.
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News of a new government comes almost three months since Italians went to the polls.
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Even so, it actually lost votes in all five states that went to the polls.
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The pound rose Thursday as Britons went to the polls to cast their Brexit vote.
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On Sunday October 383, Brazilians went to the polls for the first-round presidential election.
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Voters went to the polls after a campaign that aroused deep emotions on both sides.
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When the voters went to the polls on Thursday, they dealt May a harsh blow.
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Voters in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island went to the polls on Tuesday.
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On June 8, citizens went to the polls again to vote in the general election.
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I suspect many of them thought the same thing when they went to the polls.
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Voters also went to the polls in Detroit to begin to elect a new mayor.
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Democrats will control only 30, the same breakdown as before voters went to the polls.
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Israeli voters went to the polls on Tuesday for the second time in five months.
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In Shishmaref, residents went to the polls to decide whether they would relocate because of warming.
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Voters in the capital of Jakarta went to the polls Wednesday to elect a new governor.
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Voters in Bhopal went to the polls on May 12, with turnout at historically high levels.
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An estimated 50 million eligible voters went to the polls on Sunday, according to the commission.
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A majority of the state's voters went to the polls early in both 2012 and 2008.
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Pakistanis went to the polls in 2008 and elected their first civilian government in 12 years.
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They went to the polls mainly to prevent the radical right from getting into the government.
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Last month, the Puerto Rican people went to the polls to make a remarkable political choice.
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Mississippi's redness showed no sign of abating when voters went to the polls earlier this month.
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Turks went to the polls Sunday to cast their votes in snap presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Trump was having his worst week of the campaign just before voters went to the polls.
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The ad aired for seven straight days before voters went to the polls in New Hampshire.
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On Sunday Tunisians went to the polls to choose from 24 candidates for the top job.
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The results of the Massachusetts primaries are in — two weeks after voters went to the polls.
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Voters in Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia went to the polls in important Republican Senate primaries.
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On Sunday, voters went to the polls, and official results are expected in the coming days.
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But when Mr. García went to the polls Sunday, Mr. Correa was not on the ballot.
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Republicans also went to the polls in Idaho and Hawaii, where voters are still casting ballots.
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But seven other states went to the polls Tuesday, and many held primaries with national ramifications.
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Iran went to the polls on Friday, the country's first election since the controversial 2015 nuclear deal.
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The 2018 midterm elections saw historic highs: Nearly half, 50.4% of eligible voters went to the polls.
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In the 2013 gubernatorial general election, roughly 43% of the state's registered voters went to the polls.
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The country confirmed the cases earlier that day, and citizens went to the polls two days later.
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As the F.A.T.F. deliberated on Friday, Iranians went to the polls to vote for a new parliament.
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New Hampshire voters went to the polls on Tuesday, and we got results several hours later. Amazing!
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That run of winners continued Tuesday night when voters went to the polls in Arizona and Florida.
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The violence came as people went to the polls this weekend to vote in Afghanistan's parliamentary election.
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When Egyptians went to the polls last week, they did not have a difficult choice to make.
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The demonstration took place as Belgium citizens went to the polls to elect regional, national, and European candidates.
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However, they can be useful in discerning trends based on which types of voters went to the polls.
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"Voters went to the polls in record numbers because they want to hold Donald Trump accountable," he said.
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And when voters went to the polls days later, they gave the Prohibition-backing Republican majority the boot.
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Clinton and her allies say this severely impacted her presidential campaign just before voters went to the polls.
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On Tuesday, voters in eight states went to the polls to pick their party's nominee for the House.
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When Georgians went to the polls in May, he trailed Mr. Cagle by more than 13 percentage points.
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Europeans went to the polls last month to choose the 751 lawmakers who will sit in the Parliament.
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But, he said, he was hopeful the mood would change by the time voters went to the polls.
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Voters in three states, Arizona, Florida and Illinois, went to the polls Tuesday to vote in primary elections.
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After voters went to the polls Wednesday, it appeared that he would have to fight a little longer.
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Beginning in 1868, black and white women went to the polls all over the country and got arrested.
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Last week, Kenyans went to the polls in what was a hotly contested and potentially violent presidential election.
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That's the highest voter turnout percentage since 1914, when 50.4 percent of eligible voters went to the polls.
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Six states went to the polls on the Democratic side, with a total of 694 delegates at stake.
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Voters in New Hampshire went to the polls Tuesday in the second contest of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Voters in New Hampshire went to the polls Tuesday in the second contest of the 21100 presidential campaign.
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Some powerful women went to the polls dressed in white Tuesday, but their outfit choices were not a coincidence.
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Voters in Ghana went to the polls in the country's seventh election since the restoration of democracy in 1992.
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In the past month five of the country's 29 states went to the polls to elect five-year assemblies.
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In the plebiscite, 97 percent of voters picked statehood, but only 23 percent of voters went to the polls.
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NEW YORK — After a fierce campaign, especially on the Democratic side, New Yorkers went to the polls on Tuesday.
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Ninety percent of the 2.26 million people that went to the polls, despite a police crackdown, voted for independence.
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Europe's politically supercharged year has ended with a jolt of excitement as Germans went to the polls on Sunday.
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Duterte, for his part, didn't seem too worried about the outcome when Filipinos went to the polls on Monday.
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Even before voters went to the polls, Sanders's campaign was downplaying the importance of a win in New York.
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And votes are being counted after millions of Kenyans went to the polls in a tightly contested presidential election.
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In 28503 Puerto Ricans went to the polls and soundly rejected the current political status with the United States.
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But like so many other pieces of conventional wisdom in 2016, this one disintegrated when voters went to the polls.
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On May 231rd voters went to the polls in elections nobody wanted, as Brexit was meant to happen in March.
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On Sunday 30 December 2018, millions of Congolese went to the polls to elect a new president and national lawmakers.
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Clyburn, for instance, endorsed Clinton just a few weeks before voters went to the polls in South Carolina in February.
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TV: One in five Trump voters gave Obama a positive approval rating, job performance, when they went to the polls.
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Remember the fake pre-midterms middle-class tax cuts that died soon after voters went to the polls last year?
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Voters went to the polls in eight states: Alabama, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota.
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The battle for the House of Representatives took a break on Tuesday when Alaska and Wyoming voters went to the polls.
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In 2016, over 63 percent of eligible female adults went to the polls, compared to 59 percent of eligible male adults.
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A large YouGov survey of Brexit voters conducted after they went to the polls had Remain winning 52 percent-48 percent.
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More than 50% of the country's 36 million eligible voters went to the polls Sunday for the second round of elections.
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The Suez crisis blew up just as America went to the polls to vote on a second term for the president.
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But she was disappointed that only 26 percent of registered voters went to the polls, "after everything that happened," she said.
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So, much to the dismay of the jaded Israeli electorate, they went to the polls for a third time, on Monday.
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When Bee and her mom went to the polls Tuesday morning, there was already a line of people waiting to vote.
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Voters went to the polls in several cities and states on Tuesday, choosing mayors and weighing in on assorted ballot measures.
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But, unfortunately for Democrats, when rural Americans went to the polls last November, they didn't think of the secretary of Agriculture.
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The big Brexit slowdown The United Kingdom was the fastest growing G7 economy when voters went to the polls in 2016.
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Voters went to the polls to choose between Hassan Rouhani, the moderate incumbent, and Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line cleric, above.
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When voters went to the polls last year, they elected a 23-year-old legislator, the youngest in the city's history.
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Later, the white outfits were adopted as a uniform of sorts by pro-Clinton women as they went to the polls.
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One of Donald Trump's accusers already cast her vote for president ... and she went to the polls undercover, out of fear.
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Some said Americans might actually be paying more for gas when they went to the polls to vote in midterms on Nov.
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Instead, Clinton's aides blame reporters for the fact the story didn't fully take hold before voters went to the polls in November.
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On Tuesday, Democratic primary voters went to the polls in New York, giving Clinton more than half of the state's 291 delegates.
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Washington (CNN)The economy was a top issue for both Democratic and Republican voters who went to the polls in Indiana Tuesday.
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Women saw gains across all five states that went to the polls, including scoring a series of major victories in New York.
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Democratic caucus voters in Nevada went to the polls a few days before the Republicans and handed Hillary Clinton her second victory.
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This past Tuesday, nearly 1.5 million Jordanians went to the polls to vote in peaceful parliamentary elections that ran smoothly and efficiently.
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When Chileans went to the polls to elect their first female president, Michele Bachelet, in 28503, I was in Santiago doing research.
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Matt Bevin (R) ahead of his election loss, including a rally in the state the evening before voters went to the polls.
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Last Thursday, the country went to the polls to take part in voting for a new government, with the results released overnight.
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The FBI's investigation into emails on Weiner's computer was announced days before voters went to the polls, and possibly impacted the result.
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In Lombardy, about 40 percent of the electorate — some three million voters — went to the polls, but a quorum was not necessary.
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Before voters went to the polls on Tuesday, North Carolina had looked like a three-way race among Biden, Bloomberg, and Sanders.
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Both the reluctant Trump voters and diehards each wanted the same thing when they went to the polls last November: economic success.
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In 2008, only 61 percent of registered New York City residents went to the polls — the worst turnout for any major American city.
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It was the first presidential election in 60 years where Americans went to the polls with a vacant seat on the Supreme Court.
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Voters in the German state of Bavaria went to the polls this weekend and dealt a serious setback to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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The spring 2018 primary season began in earnest Tuesday, as voters in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, and North Carolina went to the polls.
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FRENCH nationals living abroad went to the polls a week earlier than their compatriots at home in the first round of legislative elections.
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This strategy hit the buffers with a deafening crash on Sunday when Bavaria went to the polls in its five-yearly state election.
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Voters on Tuesday also went to the polls to choose candidates in primaries in Iowa, Mississippi, Alabama, Montana, South Dakota and New Mexico.
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In 2012 only 46% of eligible millennial voters cast a ballot, but 63% of boomers told Pew Research they went to the polls.
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In the 266 presidential race, according to party's own voter files, some 21976,21980 African-American voters in the district went to the polls.
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She received last-minute support from President Trump, who appeared at two rallies with her the day before voters went to the polls.
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They say the referendum lent further legitimacy to their claim, even though fewer than half of all eligible voters went to the polls.
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When voters went to the polls this month, they knew exactly who Jeremy Corbyn was, yet this time they turned away from him.
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NGOZI, Burundi — Millions of people went to the polls in Burundi on Thursday to vote on a referendum to replace the country's constitution.
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But millions of women went to the polls for Mr. Trump on Election Day, including, according to surveys, 249 percent of white women.
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In 2014, when Greg Abbott, the Republican nominee for governor, defeated Wendy Davis, slightly more than 4.7 million voters went to the polls.
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And in the 2016 presidential election, only 61 percent of the US voting-age population went to the polls, according to the Census Bureau.
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MILLIONS of Indonesians went to the polls on February 15th to elect local leaders, from Aceh in the west to Papua in the east.
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More than 85% of Danish citizens participated in the nation's general election in 2015; Only 55% of Americans went to the polls in 2012.
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"If the church went to the polls and voted, you could turn this state around," Graham told the crowd at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds.
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South Koreans went to the polls on Tuesday, in an election that may have already swayed under bombastic rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump.
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As voters went to the polls earlier in the day, the Sanders campaign sent out a fund-raising email with an image of Mrs.
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Voters went to the polls in seven states Tuesday to pick party nominees in New York, Colorado, Maryland, South Carolina, Utah, Oklahoma and Mississippi.
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And on Election Day, Clinton supporters wore white when they went to the polls—honoring those who fought for a woman's right to vote.
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If the community voted its strength and went to the polls, what difference would it make to the lives of the people of Flint?
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Beyond projecting a winner, exit polls can also help explain why a candidate won — indicating which voters went to the polls in bigger numbers.
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"Over half of Louisiana voters went to the polls today and cast a ballot for someone other than John Bel Edwards," noted Nebraska Gov.
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He undercut the Republican nominee in his district by declaring her dead on arrival on Election Day before people even went to the polls.
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KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandans went to the polls on Thursday to choose presidential and parliamentary candidates in an election riddled with irregularities even before voting began.
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But long before Italians went to the polls to return a hung parliament, , similar trends were visible in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Italians went to the polls on March 4 in what proved to be inconclusive national election in which voters shunted mainstream parties to the sidelines.
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Even so, participation was up from 31.5 percent in 2014, and the highest since 1994, when 60 percent of registered voters went to the polls.
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Huge numbers of them went to the polls in the election on June 8th, often for the first time, and they voted overwhelmingly for Labour.
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Maine Attorney General Janet Mills was finally named Democratic nominee for governor in the state — more than a week after voters went to the polls.
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When Pakistan last went to the polls, GDP had been growing at around 22016%, a dismal rate for a poor country with a burgeoning population.
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In a nation of less than 65 million people, 33.5 million went to the polls on day that saw torrential rains, floods and long lines.
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Millions of voters went to the polls on Election Day and chose to put an end to America's nearly century long experiment with cannabis criminalization.
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On March 1, Super Tuesday (Part I), voters went to the polls in states where the NRA had allegedly helped topple candidates in the past.
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Weeks before voters went to the polls, operatives were openly discussing the possibility that Democrats would be locked out of a couple of key races.
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About 46 percent of eligible Swiss voters went to the polls on Sunday, when four other national issues and several regional issues were voted on.
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The last time more people turned out in a midterm was in 1914, which was when 50.4 percent of eligible voters went to the polls.
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Tuesday brought another round of crucial presidential primaries, as voters from both parties in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina went to the polls.
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Millions of Zambians went to the polls on Thursday to elect a president and national lawmakers, amid warnings that the campaign violence could reduce turnout.
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Then, around 90 percent of the 2.26 million voters who went to the polls said they wanted independence, although turnout was low at 42 percent.
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Mr. Joyce's affair was widely known among the press corps in Canberra, Australia's capital, but not publicly disclosed even as voters went to the polls.
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Biden was also boosted by huge jumps in turnout, contrary to conventional wisdom that was already eroding before voters went to the polls on Tuesday.
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Their allegiance is critical to his success; more than 80 percent of white evangelicals who went to the polls in 2016 voted for Mr. Trump.
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He went to the polls for Hillary Clinton in 2016, not because he liked her but because his grandmother and aunt pushed him to go.
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DHS and FBI agents have been on the ground in Virginia, where voters went to the polls Tuesday, to combat any potential Election Day assaults.
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Monday's warning from Seoul came a day after North Koreans went to the polls to vote for pre-selected members to the Supreme People's Assembly.
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So when Libyans went to the polls on July 22014, in what international observers characterized as a fair election with high turnout and little violence, Mrs.
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Exit polls in Virginia showed that one-third of the voters went to the polls to oppose Trump, and only 17 percent went to support him.
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Trump initially said the tax cut proposal would be rolled out just before voters went to the polls, even though lawmakers were out of Washington campaigning.
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When Germany went to the polls on September 24, Merkel was expected to easily continue at the helm of German government for another four-year term.
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In fact, only 2000% of eligible 5003-to-2500-year-olds went to the polls during the last midterm election in 229, according to CIRCLE data.
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The country's elections authority said more than 8 million voters went to the polls on Sunday, while the opposition estimated only 2.5 million ballots were cast.
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The European country went to the polls yesterday and its government confirmed last night that 22012-year-old Emmanuel Macron would become the nation's next leader.
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In September 2017, barely two months before Virginians went to the polls to pick a new governor, the state's board of elections convened an emergency session.
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The two Democratic candidates appeared on the state's primary ballot on Tuesday, when voters went to the polls to make their choice in the GOP race.
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The transaction to buy the rights to the story to keep it out of the press was handled by Cohen before voters went to the polls.
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Oregon voters chose Sanders just before Clinton became the presumptive nominee, but she captured the title before California voters went to the polls on June 22019.
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In the most recent midterms, in 22018, less than 20133 percent of eligible voters went to the polls — the lowest turnout in more than 22013 years.
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The sudden ramp-up and vast destruction from Hurricane Michael last month was fresh in the minds of many Floridians when they went to the polls.
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Yet turnout among voters who physically went to the polls in Maricopa County (home to Phoenix) was actually higher in the 2020 primary than in 2016.
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In 153, Berdymukhamedov introduced multiparty elections, but the last time Turkmenistan went to the polls, in 2017, the President was reelected with 98% of the vote.
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As a result, do not expect meaningful clues to the final result until we learn the votes of people who went to the polls on Tuesday.
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Name the largest country on Earth, where voters went to the polls on Sunday and elected to give their current president another 6-year term. 2.
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Utah Republicans went to the polls on Tuesday to nominate a candidate for the special election to replace former Representative Jason Chaffetz, who resigned this summer.
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The Netherlands went to the polls to elect a 150-seat Parliament, in the first major electoral test for European populism since last year's "Brexit" referendum.
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And after this law was enacted, she went to the polls to vote, and she didn't have ID, or the ID that they were asking for.
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GIGOT: Still ahead, voters in eight states went to the polls on Tuesday setting the stage for some of the most important races of the November midterms.
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Why it matters: The Congo has never had a peaceful transition of power since its independence in 1960, but its citizens went to the polls on Dec.
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Stocks had been gaining ground before Britons went to the polls on what turned out to be the shockingly wrong notion that the stay camp would prevail.
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The race was one of at least a dozen high-profile U.S. contests where the final results remained unclear one week after Americans went to the polls.
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Illinois primary voters went to the polls for the 2000 midterms Tuesday night, where Chicago-style machine politics showed it's still got what it takes to win.
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On October 26, 2000, Colombians from across the country went to the polls to vote for (the "Yes" voters) or against (the "No" voters) the peace referendum.
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One of the most dramatic primary seasons of all time came to an end on Tuesday, after Democrats in the District of Columbia went to the polls.
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The southern state, an island the size of Sri Lanka with a population of 519,000, went to the polls on Saturday with decisive results apparent before midnight.
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What's more, benchmark 85033-year Treasury yields are actually lower and the yield curve flatter than they were in the days before voters went to the polls.
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Violence broke out Sunday when millions of people went to the polls to vote in an independence referendum that Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy insists didn't happen.
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Unfortunately, like other blacks across Orange County, Florida, when Norman went to the polls on the morning of Election Day, he was turned away by white enforcers.
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Abstention was the real protest, with the turnout at 41 percent – even lower than the 47 percent who went to the polls in the previous presidential election.
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In last month's referendum, more than 90 percent of those who voted supported the agreement, but less than 36 percent of registered voters went to the polls.
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In 1871, 200 black women in North Carolina thought direct action might make the point: Dressed in men's clothing, they went to the polls and cast ballots.
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More than 98 percent of the more than two million people who went to the polls in Veneto voted in favor of autonomy, according to regional officials.
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In House District 94, which includes Newport News, almost 0003,000 people went to the polls; the Republican and Democratic candidates there are separated by just 10 votes.
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Kurdish authorities in Erbil announced on Wednesday that 92.7 percent of those who went to the polls on Monday had voted for Kurdish leaders to seek independence.
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Thursday night the British people went to the polls and confirmed that this was the party they wanted to rule from Westminster for the next five years.
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Conservatives saw this in 2016 when they went to the polls, and that's why many voted based on this issue and didn't hesitate to cast ballots for Trump.
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Fujimori's name was one of two on the ballot when Peruvians went to the polls Sunday to choose a new leader in the second round of presidential voting.
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Global stock markets mostly gained on Thursday, as the British public went to the polls to vote on whether to remain in or leave the European Union (EU).
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When Ugandans went to the polls last Thursday in presidential and parliamentary elections, they participated in the most heavily-contested political battle since multiparty democracy began in 23.
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In the endorsement, Trump referenced an affair in Argentina that led to the 2010 dissolution of Sanford's marriage just hours before South Carolina voters went to the polls.
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The thought of another President Clinton kept Kevin on board, and yesterday he went to the polls in suburban Maryland and voted for Trump, as did his sons.
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Ohio voters also went to the polls to choose candidates in the election to succeed Republican Governor John Kasich, who is prohibited from running again by term limits.
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Then came the 2000 election, which remained undecided for weeks after voters went to the polls, as a recount of the Florida vote began and was then stopped.
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And in Texas, at least 2023 percent more voters went to the polls on Tuesday than showed up four years ago, according to an analysis of vote returns.ADVERTISEMENTgoogletag.cmd.
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Kabul (CNN)Voters in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province went to the polls Saturday in legislative elections postponed for a week after an attack killed the province's police chief.
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We asked the FBI to grant us expedited processing because there was an urgent need to inform the public before they went to the polls on November 8.
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" Roos also said that in assisting in paying off Trump's purported paramours to have them keep quiet before voters went to the polls on Election Day in 2016, "Mr.
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In fact, Hungary voted on whether to accept European Union quotas for taking in refugees, and almost all of those who went to the polls voted against the quotas.
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Surveys showed both that the Republican plan was the most unpopular major bill in decades and that voters were preoccupied with health care when they went to the polls.
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At 60%, turnout was higher than at any time since the first properly democratic local elections were held in 1995, when 68% of the electorate went to the polls.
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"The boundary between going forward and going backwards...can be just one vote," Pedro Sánchez, Spain's Socialist prime minister, told voters before they went to the polls last month.
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French voters went to the polls Sunday to elect a new president, and the results could be a huge deal for global financial markets Monday and through the week.
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And you know that if he had won, we'd be hearing nothing all day from the White House but how Kentuckians really went to the polls to defeat impeachment.
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Luther Strange in his losing primary race against Roy Moore last month -- but even before voters went to the polls, he admitted he might have done the wrong thing.
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As Europe went to the polls on May 23, Teen Vogue featured a call from young European voters for older voters to listen to them on the climate crisis.
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New analysis by The Upshot shows that millions more white, older working-class voters went to the polls in 473 than was found by exit polls on Election Day.
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That was nine days during which millions of voters went to the polls under the false impression — created by Mr. Comey's action — that there was new evidence against Mrs.
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This year, voters went to the polls with the race in flux, and it was Mr. Sanders who was hoping that California would prove to be his own firewall.
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Only 26 percent of them went to the polls in the 2013 mayoral election, and that turnout was spectacular compared with the dismal 14 percent in this year's primaries.
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Seven states went to the polls Tuesday, including Utah, where Republicans launched Mitt Romney's political revival in his bid for the Senate seat being vacated by Orrin G. Hatch.
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Overall, 39 percent of voters said they went to the polls to express their opposition to the president, while 26 percent said they wanted to show support for him.
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And after early success in Iowa and New Hampshire, his campaign quickly faded as Democrats from the more diverse states of Nevada and South Carolina went to the polls.
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" One week before voters went to the polls, one of the Kremlin-backed accounts denied that Russian meddling, saying: "Russia's Putin says Moscow not trying to influence U.S. election.
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Separatist leaders called for a boycott of a vote on April 9 for a parliamentary seat representing Srinagar, and only 7 percent of qualified voters went to the polls.
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"The Latino people, we can make a change," said Mr. Paulino, who went to the polls at a high school in the neighborhood with his 78-year-old father.
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Since Australians went to the polls on Saturday to elect representatives to both houses of Parliament, nobody has been able to figure out who will form the next government.
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Important security questions — North Korea's nuclear weapons, Trump's risky moves on Iran, and a trade war with China — didn't feature prominently when voters went to the polls this year.
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AT HIS final rally before Moroccans went to the polls on October 7th, Abdelilah Benkirane, the incumbent prime minister, took a moment from lauding the economy to attack his rivals.
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"I do believe that we have to replace the current Democratic National Committee leadership," Sanders told reporters in Washington Tuesday as the last Democratic primary voters went to the polls.
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Bosnians went to the polls to decide whether their country will pursue a path toward European Union membership and NATO integration or sink deeper into ethnic strife and further fragmentation.
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And where did he rally days before Republicans went to the polls: Macomb Community College Sports & Expo Center in Warren, a venue just miles from where Clinton spokes on Thursday.
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In all, provinces accounting for 175m of Indonesia's 260m people went to the polls on June 27th, including the four most populous: West, East and Central Java, and North Sumatra.
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The public made its judgement about the accuracy, intent and significance of those disclosures and then went to the polls and awarded Trump a chance to lead the country forward.
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Just 58 percent of Americans went to the polls during the 2016 election; in the 2014 midterms, that number was only 85033 percent – the worst voter turnout in 72 years.
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In more ways than one: When voters went to the polls in 1998, they delivered the Democrats a gain in House seats — a rare win for an incumbent president's party.
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The South Carolina congressman's loss in Tuesday's primary was the most stunning outcome on a day that voters in Virginia, Maine, Nevada and North Dakota also went to the polls.
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Though the number of eligible Latino voters had reached an all-time high, the participation rate was actually down from 2680, when just under 225 percent went to the polls.
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That investigation uncovered no criminal wrongdoing, but Democrats blamed Comey for shifting the momentum of the presidential contest in favor of Trump just days before voters went to the polls.
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Voters went to the polls the next day, and that night Kennedy thanked a crowd of supporters in the hotel's Embassy Room before leaving by way of the nearby kitchen.
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Voters in Massachusetts went to the polls today and elected Ayanna Pressley, 26, above, over 10-term Representative Michael Capuano in a Democratic primary that few said she could win.
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Congo went to the polls in December in what was intended to be the country's first democratic handover of power in the 59 years since it gained independence from Belgium.
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In 2016, less than half of voters aged 18 to 29 went to the polls, while a majority in all other age groups voted, according to the US Census Bureau.
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Hong Kong The people of Hong Kong went to the polls this weekend in what was considered a de facto referendum on six months of violent unrest in the city.
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Just 50.5 percent of those eligible to vote, or about 8.6 million people - about a fifth of the total electorate - went to the polls, against some 60 percent two weeks ago.
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A series of recent polls ahead of Election Day show the trend toward favoring legalization has only grown since the last time millions of Americans went to the polls in 2014.
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As voters went to the polls and elected a new president over the weekend, a rare point of agreement between Taiwan's fractious political parties was that the tech industry needs help.
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John McCain's 2008 speech, widely considered one of the best modern concession speeches, was prewritten, perhaps because the likely result of the election was clear before voters went to the polls.
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His infamous announcement in late October that the FBI was looking into new emails revived the specter of the earlier probe into Clinton's emails just before voters went to the polls.
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Voter fraud allegations The National Electoral Council announced that more than 20153 million people -- about 41.53% of registered voters -- went to the polls Sunday, but allegations of voter fraud quickly emerged.
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After the December 1995 shutdown that ended in January 1996, heretofore the longest shutdown in U.S. history, Republicans kept their majority in Congress when voters went to the polls in November.
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Clinton — whose mother was born on the day Congress approved women's right to vote — went to the polls in Chappaqua, N.Y., to vote for herself to become the first female president.
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Nearly three months since Iraqis went to the polls to cast their ballots in a parliamentary election, a new government is yet to be announced — and the wait might be long.
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Voters in the largest cities, where opposition to Mr. Putin is concentrated, tended to stay home, while many rural voters, a bastion of support for the president, went to the polls.
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The evening before Americans went to the polls to cast their votes in the midterm elections, some of the most powerful gatekeepers in American fashion cast a vote of their own.
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In Michigan, exit polls showed that replacing private health insurance with a government program had the support of nearly 60 percent of the people who went to the polls on Tuesday.
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Almost 138 million Americans went to the polls this year, but Mr. Trump secured his Electoral College victory thanks to fewer than 80,000 votes across three states: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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In fact, the FBI went to extraordinary lengths to keep the Russia probe secret before voters went to the polls in 2016, as not to affect the outcome of the election.
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Well, except for John Oliver; the Last Week Tonight host chose to cover other elections rather than join in the maelstrom of primary election coverage months before anyone went to the polls.
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READ: Opinion: Lesson of Trump's big night: Don't underestimate him Trump had a clean sweep of the five states where voters went to the polls: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
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"A TRUE triumph of progress over regression," claimed King Abdullah, boasting about Jordan's elections from the UN podium in New York on September 20th, the day his kingdom went to the polls.
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Voters went to the polls across four Southern states on Tuesday to vote in primary elections and brought with them a sharp reversal of some narratives from earlier in the election cycle.
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On March 1st voters from a dozen states went to the polls—of the 11 states allocating delegates, Mr Trump won seven, Ted Cruz won three and Mr Rubio won just one.
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MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberians went to the polls on Tuesday for a presidential election they hope will mark their first democratic transfer of power in more than seven decades, despite allegations of fraud.
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More than 92% of the roughly 3 million people who went to the polls earlier this week opted for independence, according to official results announced by the Kurdish electoral commission on Wednesday.
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"This is the big bang" of institutional reforms, said Mr. Zaia in Veneto, where at least 60 percent of the population went to the polls, easily reaching the quorum of 50.1 percent.
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BOSTON — Nearly two weeks after voters went to the polls, Lori Trahan emerged Monday as the official winner of a 123-person Democratic primary for the congressional seat based in Lowell, Mass.
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The holdup meant that roughly 3,85033 emails were not released by the time Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire went to the polls in recent weeks, formally beginning the 2016 nominating contest.
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ZANZIBAR (Reuters) - Tanzania's semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago went to the polls on Sunday amid tight security in a re-run of disputed elections that have been boycotted by the main opposition party.
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Adding to worries that a pick-up may not materialise, Sainsbury's, Britain's second largest supermarket, said on Wednesday it hadn't seen any change in behaviour since the nation went to the polls.
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On November 20th more than 2m people from Ethiopia's fifth-biggest ethnic group, the Sidama, went to the polls to decide whether to break away to form its tenth semi-autonomous state.
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ROME, April 17 (Reuters) - Italy went to the polls on Sunday for a referendum on off-shore oil and gas drilling rights, a complex issue that the government hopes voters will shun.
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When the German state on the front lines of the 2015 migrant crisis went to the polls on Sunday, voters were widely expected to abandon the conservative allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Americans went to the polls last November not knowing a lot of important details about Donald Trump's promise to deliver what he said would be the largest tax cut in US history.
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Click here to view original GIFFor the second time in the past few months, Americans went to the polls and voted in a way that will have half the country scratching its heads.
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The same tool was used by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to identify 10,000 bots that Twitter ultimately removed from its platform in the weeks before voters went to the polls last year.
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Neither party managed to land any knockout blows in California Tuesday as voters went to the polls there and in seven other states to pick candidates who will face off in the Nov.
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Midterm election leads to Democratic wins Millions of voters went to the polls across the US this fall in what amounted to a referendum on President Donald Trump's first two years in office.
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"The people went to the polls and voted for a new direction in Madison, not a repeat of the Scott Walker dirty tricks playbook," said Stephanie Bloomingdale, who heads the Wisconsin AFL-CIO.
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"Women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress," Washington D.C. Congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton told The Washington Post in 2011.
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On October 28, in his last Facebook post, Taylor applauded the millions of Afghans who defied the Taliban's threats and went to the polls, calling it a success for a war-weary people.
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Over the weekend, a political activist with more than 30,000 Twitter followers wrote a post saying that Trump supporters with dogs were threatening black voters who went to the polls early in Cincinnati.
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Voters in central Pennsylvania also went to the polls Tuesday, where by a wide margin they elected Fred Keller, a Republican state lawmaker, to fill an open seat in a conservative House district.
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On Monday, 6900 July, the people of Zimbabwe went to the polls in record numbers, and for the first time in three decades, 2628-year-old Robert Mugabe was not on the ballot.
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It's important to put this in context: 22018 saw the highest percentage of midterm voter turnout since 260, when 250 percent of eligible voters went to the polls, as Vox's Emily Stewart noted.
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That statement, made on October 16th, was tested just a week later when Kenyans went to the polls for a re-run of the election on August 8th, which the country's supreme court annulled.
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Going after Rubio Days before New Hampshire voters went to the polls, Christie was struggling to stay in the conversation, falling into the mid-single digits and struggling to rediscover the message that connected.
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And to undertake secret payments to keep stories out of the media, and in the case of Trump, out of the political narrative in the crucial window before Americans went to the polls. Right.
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Only 36 percent of eligible voters ages 18 to 24 and 58 percent of those 25 to 34 went to the polls, compared with more than 80 percent of eligible voters 55 and older.
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Voters went to the polls in October and gave their support to candidates who promised to fight violence with violence by relaxing gun ownership rules and allowing the police to fire on armed suspects.
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"The floodgates have opened," a Biden confidant said last week, in reference to both fundraising and promised endorsements that were rolling in after that poll but before South Carolina voters went to the polls.
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In 2012, when the country last went to the polls, the budget deficit doubled to one of the highest rates in Africa as the ruling National Democratic Congress ramped up spending on civil service wages.
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Vucic went to the polls two years early, saying he wanted a clear mandate from Serbia's 6.7 million voters for reforms to keep EU membership talks launched in December on track for completion by 1563.
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In the affluent Usaquen neighborhood of the capital, Claudia Guerrero, a 28-year-old shop assistant, said she hoped fellow voters did not just hurl insults on social media but actually went to the polls.
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The SNP has long campaigned for Scotland to become a sovereign state independent from the U.K. However, when Scots went to the polls in 2014, they voted to remain by a majority of 55 percent.
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In an election year full of questions, Super Tuesday raised a few more, as voters in 12 states went to the polls and the GOP's Donald Trump and Democrats' Hillary Clinton emerged as big winners.
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The director of the FBI was publicly teasing possible criminal charges against a major-party presidential nominee just days before voters went to the polls in most states (and after early voting was well underway).
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Nearly 66 million of Americans then went to the polls and cast their vote for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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On May 7th, two days before Filipinos went to the polls to choose a new leader, 250,000 people thronged Rizal Park for a rally for Rodrigo "digong" Duterte (pictured above), who promises another political upheaval.
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Call it what you want — the Acela primaries, the Atlantic primaries or one more Super Tuesday — but it was another big night on the electoral calendar as voters in five states went to the polls.
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Most voters in Congo went to the polls Sunday -- after more than two years of delays and countless protests -- to elect the successor to President Joseph Kabila, who has been in power for 18 years.
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ZANZIBAR, March 20 (Reuters) - Tanzania's semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago went to the polls on Sunday amid ramped-up security in a re-run of disputed elections that have been boycotted by the main opposition party.
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While millions of Americans went to the polls on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to attack 2020 Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg, his one-time golf partner, for eating pizza with his hands.
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He paused his monologue only to adjust his cellphone, talking for hours to his Facebook followers about what he saw and heard as Cambodians went to the polls Sunday in nationwide elections of local officials.
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And now the resistance, which took its dressing cues from the candidate last fall, from pantsuit nation to the voters who went to the polls in suffragists' white, has something to wear on its feet.
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The FBI's surprise decision to re-examine Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server before voters went to the polls cost her the election, the "heartbroken" Democratic nominee said Saturday, a source told NBC News.
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Today voters in Austin went to the polls to weigh in on Proposition 1, an attempt to overturn a bill requiring mandatory fingerprint-based criminal background checks for new Uber and Lyft drivers in the city.
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The race for the White House was shaken up again on Tuesday as primary voters in both parties went to the polls in Michigan and Mississippi, while the GOP held additional contests in Idaho and Hawaii.
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Another Conservative MP, who represents a seat in Scotland, told Business Insider that their preference, along with their colleagues north of the border, was for Johnson to deliver Brexit before the country went to the polls.
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Australia's governing Liberal Party announced overnight that it was changing its rules so that the prime minister leading the party at election time would stay in the post until the country next went to the polls.
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Then the public went to the polls just about a year later and … handed the GOP not only broader control of the House but a majority in the Senate for the first time in six years.
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Kenyans went to the polls amid concerns over the credibility of the vote and bitter online hate campaigns stoking ethnic tensions, leading to fears of a return to the bloodshed that followed the disputed 2007 vote.
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The Republican Party holds the presidency and Carson his job because a lot of people went to the polls imagining the swamp was going to be drained, not fitted with handcrafted bronze faucets and a bidet.
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This, as well as the brief recession of 1990-91, cost him the 1992 election, though even as voters went to the polls the figures for growth were ticking upwards, ushering in almost a decade of prosperity.
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Three days before France went to the polls in the first round of its presidential election, a man shot police officers on the boulevard with an automatic weapon, killing one of them before he himself was killed.
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VANCOUVER, May 9 (Reuters) - Voters in Canada's British Columbia went to the polls to choose a new provincial government on Tuesday in a neck-and-neck race between the ruling Liberal Party and left-leaning New Democrats.
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This past Sunday, Puerto Ricans went to the polls in an historic status referendum in which the people decided to end more than a century of colonial rule by joining the union as its fifty-first state.
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More than 92% of the roughly 3 million people who went to the polls this week in Iraqi Kurdish-controlled areas opted for independence from Baghdad, according to official results announced Wednesday by the Kurdish electoral commission.
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With a large refugee population, a decaying infrastructure and growing unemployment, many Lebanese say they have no hope in the country's political players, and less than half of voters went to the polls in this month's election.
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You may recall that millions of Catalans went to the polls two weeks ago to try and vote in a referendum organized by the Catalan regional government, and that the Spanish government did not approve of that.
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He was first criticized by Republicans when he announced he wouldn't be charging then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over her emails, and then by Democrats for publicly reopening the case days before Americans went to the polls.
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Given the scope and breadth of the Kremlin's attempts to interfere in the November election, the Obama administration has faced questions about the timing of its public disclosure, just a month before Americans went to the polls.
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At least 17 people were killed in Bangladesh in election-related violence on Sunday, according to the police, as voters went to the polls to decide an election tainted by widespread allegations of rigging by the government.
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NEW YORK, Nov 73 (Reuters) - Wall Street's major indexes closed higher on Tuesday as voters went to the polls in U.S. midterm Congressional elections and investors hoped the outcome would provide some relief for stocks after prolonged uncertainty.
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DILI (Reuters) - Former East Timorese independence fighter Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres was on track on Tuesday to win the presidency in one round, based on early vote counting a day after Asia's youngest nation went to the polls.
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The Brexit has proved more difficult and complex than imagined when Brits went to the polls, and the dramatic drop in the pound was evidence that the market was beginning to understand the consequences of the referendum decision.
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Democrats' hotly anticipated contested primary for Virginia governor was supposed to be the race to watch when Virginians went to the polls Tuesday, but the surprise of the night was the unexpectedly close race for the GOP nomination.
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"This is the first time we've seen oil threatened as a diplomatic weapon for a while." prices surged 3 percent on Monday as Kurds went to the polls, hitting a 26-month high of $59.49 early on Tuesday.
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The nation's working class had another opportunity to demonstrate its political clout Tuesday, as primary voters went to the polls in Illinois and Ohio, Rust Belt states that have suffered intensely from the loss of good manufacturing jobs.
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On the same day that members of the Social Democratic Party in Germany gave reluctant blessing to another "grand coalition" in Berlin, Italians went to the polls and delivered more than half their votes to anti-establishment parties.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanians went to the polls on Sunday for a presidential election runoff expected to re-elect centrist president Klaus Iohannis, who has pledged to restart a judicial reform slowed down by successive Social Democrat (PSD) governments.
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Polls had consistently shown Macron with a wide lead, but the final day of the campaign got a jolt after a massive hack on the Macron campaign just over 24 hours before voters went to the polls on Sunday.
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Confounding the hardliners' efforts to disqualify well-known reformist candidates, voters went to the polls armed with "lists of hope" of the lesser-knowns on their phones, and unseated the staunchest conservatives, some of Mr Khamenei's relatives among them.
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He touted the delegates he would capture in New York, emphasizing he won them in a primary election where voters went to the polls -- an un-subtle dig at Cruz, who has done better in caucuses or party conventions.
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Its voters went to the polls on April 11th, in the first of seven stages of an election that will not wrap up until May 23rd, when all the country's 900m or so votes will be tallied at once.
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Two days before the French people went to the polls, the campaign of presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was the victim of a "massive and coordinated" hacking attack involving the theft and posting of huge amounts of internal campaign documents.
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Editorial On Tuesday, for the first time in more than 50 years, Americans went to the polls to elect a president without a fully functioning Voting Rights Act — thanks to an insidious decision by the Supreme Court in 2013.
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The seventh Democratic debate of the 2016 season took place against the backdrop of a landslide Bernie Sanders victory in the New Hampshire primary and an electrifying sixth debate that took place just before voters went to the polls.
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But for Democrats who had long hoped for the field to narrow and the options to sharpen, there was still mass uncertainty as people in 14 states from the Eastern Seaboard to the Pacific Coast went to the polls.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Rwandans went to the polls on Friday, appearing to overwhelmingly extend the long tenure of President Paul Kagame, who has guided the country with a steady and at times repressive hand after a genocide two decades ago.
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Ugandans went to the polls to elect a new president and members of parliament on Thursday, in a process that has been disrupted by delays in the delivery of ballot papers, fueling growing frustration among voters and claims of vote rigging.
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As the 2016 US presidential election drew near, fears began to mount that the so-called Mirai botnet might be the work of a nation-state practicing for an attack that would cripple the country as voters went to the polls.
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When voters in Istanbul went to the polls, they voted for city mayor, the local assembly and district mayors, points out Osman Can, a former member of the Venice Commission, but the board cancelled only the outcome of the mayoral vote.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Voters in the turbulent former tribal zones of northwestern Pakistan went to the polls on Saturday in the first provincial elections since the region lost the semi-autonomous status it had held since the British colonial era.
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Renzi denied Sunday's vote was a triumph for the 5-Star Movement, which draws support from voter anger against corruption, saying it had only flourished in Rome and Turin, out of some 1,313 towns and cities that went to the polls.
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Revelations that Trump dictated a doctor's report on his health before voters went to the polls and his ever-shifting story on a hush payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels might have been a debilitating blow to any normal politician.
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While the vote passed by a 90 percent to 10 percent margin, that number itself was enormously skewed: Only 43 percent of eligible voters went to the polls, with voters who wanted to remain in Spain largely avoiding the ballot box.
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"Many Europeans who went to the polls last month actively voted for change, and punished the center right and center left for muddling through, failing to come up with more bold actions on Europe's pressing challenges," Ms. Gostynska-Jakubowska said.
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Tuesday, voters — some angry, some hopeful despite themselves — went to the polls and told a different story: the first openly trans woman elected to the Virginia legislature, a surge of female Democratic candidates across the nation, many of them victorious.
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As the policy analyst Sean McElwee has noted, this means that even if every registered Latino voter in America went to the polls last November, Latinos' overall turnout rate still would have been lower than it was for whites (63 percent).
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Voters went to the polls under a state of emergency; the main opposition party was not allowed to mobilize its supporters; the most charismatic opposition leader is behind bars; and Mr. Erdogan has branded opponents of the presidential system as terrorists.
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South Koreans went to the polls on Tuesday and elected Moon Jae-in, a center-left human rights lawyer, capping a remarkable yearlong national drama that brought mass street protests and the impeachment and imprisonment of former President Park Geun-hye.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Voters in the Marshall Islands went to the polls on Monday in a general election that will determine who will lead the Pacific island country's negotiations with the United States on the renewal of a regional security pact.
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The 29-page indictment lays out how, months before Americans went to the polls, Russians schemed to break into key Democratic email accounts, including those belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
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"There was a complete and utter rebuttal, I'll call it a prebuttal, of Mr. Guiterrez's statement on November 8, when the American people went to the polls and said we want the law enforced and we want our streets safe," King said.
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In 2012, even more black voters went to the polls than in 20083, the increase in black turnout driven in large part by more votes form black women, who were were crucial to Obama's victories in key states like Florida, Ohio and Virginia.
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The citizens of Sierra Leone went to the polls on March 7 but this time something was different: the country recorded votes at 70% of the polling to the blockchain using a technology that is the first of its kind in actual practice.
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Paris (CNN)At stake over this long weekend, when Europe went to the polls to select its new leaders, were the seats of the 751 members of the European Parliament -- but also the very character of an increasingly discordant, even fragmented, Europe.
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"By an historic ten million vote margin, the American people went to the polls and asked for a professionally run Congress that would be more transparent, ethical and committed to debating and advancing good ideas no matter where they come from," she said.
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"Your vote in 2018 is every bit as important as your vote in 2016," he said while speaking at a gala hosted by the Susan B. Anthony List Tuesday night, the same day voters went to the polls in several Southern primaries.
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It was not happenstance that she wore a Gucci gown to the Kennedy Center Honors the same day Italy went to the polls to vote on a referendum widely viewed as a verdict on Matteo Renzi, the country's now former reformist prime minister.
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Clinton has been criticized since the election for blaming her loss largely on Russian interference and the decision by former FBI Director James Comey to open a new phase of his investigation into her emails just days before voters went to the polls.
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That was where the race in House District 94 was headed until Tuesday, in a contest that has had more pirouettes than a prima ballerina since voters went to the polls seven weeks ago, choosing the Republican incumbent, David Yancey, by 10 votes.
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In October 2016, a month before voters went to the polls, US intelligence agencies revealed they were confident that "Russia's senior-most officials" were behind cyberattacks on the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, and damaging leaks of the stolen data.
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NAIROBI — Millions of Kenyans went to the polls on Tuesday to vote for their next president in a tight and crucial race, despite fears that the elections would erupt in the same kind of violence that wrought havoc on the country 10 years ago.
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CRITICISM Several key bankers including ex-Barclays chairman John McFarlane and Standard Chartered Chief Executive Bill Winters were among 1,280 business leaders who expressed support for the Remain campaign in a letter published a day before Britons went to the polls on June 23, 2016.
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His firm's flagship fund benefited, however, from various short positions put on many months before Britons went to the polls, including bearish bets on China, emerging markets, material and cyclical stocks, luxury stocks, and a number of currencies, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The motivations of supporters in Britain for the country to leave the European Union are similar to those sparking the rise of Donald Trump in the United States, two economists told CNBC on Thursday, as Britons went to the polls to vote on the Brexit.
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Washington (CNN)Republican voters who went to the polls in Wisconsin Tuesday saw trade with other countries as a drain, but Democratic voters were equally split between those who said it created jobs and those who said it cost jobs, according to exit poll results.
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This suggests that the recent revelations of the FBI reopening and then closing its investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails and Donald Trump's "locker room" talk and accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior did not have much impact on Americans as they went to the polls.
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Several key bankers including ex-Barclays chairman John McFarlane and Standard Chartered Chief Executive Bill Winters were among 1,280 business leaders who expressed support for the Remain campaign in a letter published a day before Britons went to the polls on June 23, 2016.
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BANGKOK, March 24 (Reuters) - Thai voters went to the polls on Sunday in a long-delayed election following a 2014 coup, in a race that pits a military junta chief seeking to retain power against a "democratic front" led by the populist party he ousted.
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Spain's constitutional court has said any independence vote in Catalonia is illegal and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said he did not recognize the vote on Sunday, which saw 90 percent of the 2.26 million people who went to the polls, vote for independence.
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It was a way to show Times readers, in real time, how the vote was shaping up in the states that went to the polls on March 1 — who was ahead, who had won, how many precincts had been counted, how many were out.
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And as voters went to the polls on the state's Primary Day last Tuesday, a group led by a Detroit pastor began an effort to recall him in a statewide referendum, a repeat of the movement that in 2012 targeted a fellow Republican, Gov.
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Over all, 1.3 million voters in Virginia went to the polls on Tuesday, surpassing the votes cast in 2016 by nearly 70 percent and, even more stunningly, breaking a previous Democratic record of 143,000 votes set in 2008, when Barack Obama was on the ballot.
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In what was coined "Super Saturday", voters in five seats went to the polls after a handful of mainly Labor opposition lawmakers were forced from office after falling foul of the country's constitution that bans politicians from elected office if they are dual citizens.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — In the days after Congolese voters went to the polls late last month, as ballots were being counted, the opposition candidate widely believed to have won the presidency offered assurances to the regime that has long ruled the country.
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The reason why he won in Michigan, despite what everybody said, is because people went to the polls in a secret ballot and voted for someone who they believed would take care of their personal economy, would help their economy grow, would help their job.
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — Voters in Slovenia went to the polls on Sunday to decide a runoff election between a sitting president deeply rooted in the political establishment and a former actor who had appealed to the electorate by tapping into concern about the struggling economy.
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In what was coined "Super Saturday," voters in five seats went to the polls after a handful of mainly Labor opposition lawmakers were forced from office after falling foul of the country's constitution that bans politicians from elected office if they are dual citizens.
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" Maine Dems get their man in competitive House primary - Roll Call: "More than a week after voters went to the polls, the Maine secretary of state on Wednesday night declared state House Assistant Majority Leader Jared Golden the winner of the Democratic nomination in the 2nd District.
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If no workable government can be created after March 4, some politicians have suggested Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni's center-left government should stay in office until new elections are held, as happened in Spain, which went to the polls twice within six months between 2015 and 2016.
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" Added Ainsley Earhardt: "People who voted for him and want the wall and went to the polls to vote for that wall, they want to know how he's going to do this and they want to know why he seems to be softening his stance this morning.
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Disillusioned electorate Voters went to the polls at almost 23,000 polling stations across the country on Wednesday, with ANC leader President Cyril Ramaphosa promising to crack down on corruption in the party, following years of corruption scandals associated with his predecessor Jacob Zuma's time in office.
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Californians went to the polls on Tuesday in a primary election that was a big deal for the country: How the vote went in several competitive congressional districts was being closely watched as a barometer of the chances Democrats have to take control of Congress in November.
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Emmanuel Macron, France's other outsider candidate, is the last chance to stop Marine Le Pen Emmanuel Macron, France's other outsider candidate, is the last chance to stop Marine Le Pen Voters in France went to the polls on Sunday in the first round of the presidential election.
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Ted Cruz and his father, Rafael On what would be the last day of Cruz's primary campaign, as Indiana primary voters went to the polls, Trump channeled a conspiracy theory promoted by the National Enquirer that said Rafael Cruz was in league with JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Still, Democrats who went to the polls Tuesday -- to vote in a race featuring two seasoned politicians -- were more apt than Republicans to say they wanted the next president to have experience in politics, only about one-quarter said they preferred a president from outside the political establishment.
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As California, New Jersey, Montana, New Mexico, and North and South Dakotas went to the polls in the last stretch of the primary-election season, Mrs Clinton was finally able to declare herself the first woman to become one of the two major party's nominee for the presidential election.
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César Valderrama, the director of Datexco, who had predicted a double-digit win for the agreement, said the "no" vote had risen in reaction to the celebratory signing ceremony that took place before Colombians went to the polls, an act of political stagecraft that apparently backfired on the government.
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That left Klobuchar weakened in New Hampshire until, days before voters went to the polls there, the senator delivered an electric debate performance that raised her campaign millions, filled her following campaign events with people and gave her enocugh momentum to notch a third-place finish in the state.
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Voters across the European Union went to the polls this past week to vote for the parties they want to represent them in the European Parliament, one of the legislative bodies of the EU and the only one whose members — known as MEPs — are directly elected by EU citizens.
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The Leadership Losers When Virginia voters went to the polls on June 10, 2014, House Majority Leader Eric CantorEric Ivan CantorThe biggest political upsets of the decade Bottom Line Bottom line MORE (R) was in Washington, confident he would win the GOP primary in his Richmond-area district.
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This opportunity was graciously provided by the Public Theater, where "Women of a Certain Age — Play 3 of the Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family" opened on (and is set on) the very night that Americans went to the polls to select their next president.
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Read MoreTrump, Clinton hold wide Michigan lead: Poll Republican and Democratic voters across five states went to the polls on Saturday, casting their votes in a contest that was initially expected to boost the fortunes of Trump and Clinton in their quests to be the standard bearers of their respective parties.
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He has been backed up by the Republican National Committee, which launched a website "Lyin' Comey" last week that makes the case that Democrats should hate the former FBI director because he cost Hillary Clinton the election by reopening an investigation into her emails days before voters went to the polls.
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On a night when voters in four states went to the polls, Democrats delivered groundbreaking primary victories for a transgender woman in Vermont, a Muslim woman in Minnesota and an African-American woman in Connecticut, while voters in Wisconsin nominated a top state education official, Tony Evers, to challenge Gov.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE clinched the 2016 Democratic nomination in early June just before California primary voters went to the polls.
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KISUMU, Kenya — Kenyan officials were compiling the results early Wednesday after millions of Kenyans went to the polls to pick their next president, the culmination of a campaign dominated by concerns about the potential for vote-rigging and fears that the country would be plunged into violence once the winner was announced.
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On Election Day last year, voters went to the polls and emerged with a political and fashion statement all in one: "I Voted" stickers, handed out by election officials, quickly made their way onto social media, turning up in selfies, on the gravestones of suffragists and even affixed to the occasional dog.
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More than 53 million Democratic voters went to the polls in Texas last night, the first time they've passed that number in a midterm primary since 2002, per AP. And more than half of the 50 women running for Congress in the reliably red state either advanced to the runoff or won their primaries.
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Fifteen years ago, when Ms. Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, shocked his compatriots by breaking through to the second round and again knocking out the Socialist Party, some Socialist voters went to the polls with clothespins on their noses, as they voted for the scandal-plagued candidate of the center-right, Jacques Chirac.
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Shining a spotlight on the Frog Squad's activities, as well as their alliance with Kremlin operatives who support their efforts, might not have been the deciding factor in Macron's victory, but French voters knew a lot more about how the far right operates online than American voters did when we went to the polls last fall.
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The last time D.C. residents went to the polls to cast a vote for or against a D.C. statehood referendum, 52 American diplomats and citizens were being held hostage in Tehran by the Ayatollah Khomeini; the AIDS-causing virus hadn't yet been discovered, let alone controlled; and Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms had only been launched the previous year.
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That success built on Mr. Macron's strong early performance as president, analysts said, but was also greatly helped by the vacuum left when successive parties on the left and right collapsed in the face of his strong showing in the presidential race and by historically low turnout — just 49 percent of the French went to the polls.
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Yonhap also reported that although the rogue regime held off conducting nuclear or missile tests while the U.S. went to the polls, possibly so it could gauge Trump's policy on the country, it was likely tests would be conducted around key dates in December or January, including the fifth anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un's father.
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While Hyde-Smith's lynching comments inserted intense controversy into the 85033 race, she was still able to cross the finish line with some help from President TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP senators balk at lengthy impeachment trial Warren goes local in race to build 2020 movement 2020 Democrats make play for veterans' votes MORE, who appeared at two rallies with her the day before voters went to the polls.
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F.B.I. Agent Peter Strzok, Who Criticized Trump in Texts, Is Fired Embracing Conspiracy Theory, Trump Escalates Attack on Bruce Ohr Citing Costs, Trump Retreats From Massive Military Parade in Capital Voters in four states went to the polls on Tuesday, and a transgender woman in Vermont, a Muslim woman in Minnesota and a black woman in Connecticut all clinched groundbreaking victories in their primaries.
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On June 23, 2016, the British people went to the polls in a vote on whether the U.K. should remain a member of the EU. To much of the country's shock — even, it appeared, to politicians like current Prime Minister Boris Johnson who campaigned to leave — 51.9% of Brits voted to leave the EU with 48.1% voting to remain in the economic and political union.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 28503 crime law authored by Biden MORE (I-Vt.) and Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 22019 crime law authored by Biden Sanders leads Democratic field in Colorado poll MORE (D-Calif.) and boasting of 1,000 volunteers who deployed across the state in the final weekend before voters went to the polls.
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