Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.

The resolution under discussion at the convention was to require the boards of election to instruct judges to properly display the American flag.

My discussion with reference to the resolution was that we should commend those citizens who serve as judges of election and who properly discharge their duty and polling place proprietors who make available their private premises, and not by innuendo criticize them.

We wish the President would remember that `` fiscal responsibility '' was the battle-cry of the party that lost the election.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

`` This was the coolest, calmest election I ever saw '', Colquitt Policeman Tom Williams said.

The campaign leading to the election was not so quiet, however.

Ordinary Williams said he, too, was subjected to anonymous calls soon after he scheduled the election.

Mitchell said the closeness of the outcome in last fall's Presidential election did not mean that Eisenhower Republicanism was a dead issue.

`` This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated '', he said.

The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavours for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Transcendentalists.

His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederacy.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.

Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.

The Secretary promulgated the Constitution of American Samoa which was approved by a Constitutional Convention of the people of American Samoa and a majority of the voters of American Samoa voting at the 1966 election, and came into effect in 1967.

At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

When a vacancy occurred, the bishop of the diocese chose the abbot out of the monks of the convent, but the right of election was transferred by jurisdiction to the monks themselves, reserving to the bishop the confirmation of the election and the benediction of the new abbot.

In Abrahamic religions the view is generally held that one goes to hell or heaven depending on one's deeds and / or faith while on Earth, or predestination and Unconditional election, or to the intermediate state to await the Resurrection of the Dead.

In the Catholic Church ( both the Latin Rite and Eastern Catholic ), Eastern Orthodox, Coptic and Anglican abbeys, the mode of election, position, rights, and authority of an abbess correspond generally with those of an abbot.

Kings no longer interfered so frequently in their election, and when they did, they generally nominated more worthy candidates for the office.

Moussa Ahmed Idriss and the ODU later challenged the results based on election " irregularities " and the assertion that " foreigners " had voted in various districts of the capital ; however, international and locally based observers considered the election to be generally fair, and cited only minor technical difficulties.

The OSCE found that while the elections failed to comply with commitments to free and fair elections, there were improvements over the 2000 elections, notably the use of indelible ink, transparent ballot boxes, and generally good access by election observers.

In 1993, the Library of Congress wrote " Foreign observers generally reported that the election was fair.

While the term propaganda has justifiably acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples ( e. g. Nazi Propaganda used to justify the Holocaust ), propaganda in its original sense was neutral, and could refer to uses that were generally benign or innocuous, such as public health recommendations, signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to report crimes to the police, among others.

In the Senate, state power was to be based on state legislature election, two Senators generally to be elected by different state legislatures to better reflect the long term interests of the people living in each state.

This clause generally commits to the States the authority to determine the " times, places and manner of holding elections ," which includes the preliminary stages of the election process ( such as a primary election ), while reserving to Congress the authority to preempt State regulations with uniform national rules.

This process occurs in the presence of both houses of Congress, generally on January 6 of the year following a U. S. presidential election.

In September 2006, citizens re-elected President Saleh to a second term in a generally open and competitive election, although there were multiple problems with the voting process and use of state resources on behalf of the ruling party.

The conservatives favored high tariffs on imported goods to encourage consumers to buy American-made products ( as did most progressives ), favored business leaders over labor unions, and were generally opposed to the popular election of judges.

Even before his election as Chancellor, Willy Brandt, the Social Democratic mayor of West Berlin, argued for and pursued policies that would ease tensions between the two German states, generally in the interest of cross-border commerce.

It was generally conceded that had an election been held, Hồ Chí Minh would have been elected Premier.

The Court stated that the per curiam opinion's applicability was " limited to the present circumstances, for the problem of equal protection in election processes generally presents many complexities.

Lund said: Conversely, the majority opinion was criticized by Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz, who wrote: Some critics of the decision argue that the majority seemed to seek refuge from their own logic in the following sentence in the majority opinion: " Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances, for the problem of equal protection in election processes generally presents many complexities.

As he was elected with the help of most delegates of the Free Democratic Party ( FDP / Liberals ) his election was generally understood as a sign of the re-orientation of the FDP with regard to a future coalition with the SPD ( Social-liberal coalition, October 1969-October 1982 ).

The rest of Lincoln County has generally leaned Republican, and heavily favored Republican John McCain in the 2008 election.

The party did not run local or state candidates, and after the 1948 election its leaders generally returned to the Democratic Party.

The scandal rocked the Conservative government, and was generally held to have been among the causes of its defeat by Labour at the 1964 election.

When a qualifying primary is applied to a partisan election, it becomes what is generally known as a blanket or Louisiana primary: typically, if no candidate wins a majority in the primary, the two candidates receiving the highest pluralities, regardless of party affiliation, go on to a general election that is in effect a run-off.