election
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“Buying negative-beta stocks helps a long term oriented portfolio ‘ride out’ volatility events, with interest rate, geopolitical and midterm election uncertainty the catalysts for another such event as September gets underway,” the analysts said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
District Court Judge Indira Talwani, a federal judge in Massachusetts, who will decide in the coming days whether to issue a permanent ban on enacting the system for this election.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Four members of their ranks crossed the floor to the governing Liberals since the April 2025 election, and three others have either resigned or have announced plans to do so.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Mr. Fishback lost the GOP primary to Rep. Byron Donalds, who will face Democrat David Jolly in the general election.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The holograms look just like the one Woo threw at me—like digital campaign posters, advertising candidates for some sort of election.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Wong was among dozens of pro-democracy campaigners convicted in the city's largest national security trial after their involvement in informal elections in 2020.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
California law requires all registered voters be sent a ballot in the mail, and more than 80% of California voters have used those ballots to vote in recent elections.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
A more plausible explanation for polling errors is that primary elections are more difficult to poll than general elections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Regional and international observers described the election day as largely peaceful, but Zambia's Human Rights Commission has called for accountability over people whose whereabouts remain unknown following arrests and security operations around the elections.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
With six full suffrage states and two million female voters, there already existed a readymade voting bloc with the potential to influence state and national elections.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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