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What Tuesday’s election results show is that consumers are voters.

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On Tuesday, the self-identified democratic socialist won New York City’s mayoral election by over a million votes, taking more than half the total vote in a three-way contest.

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Reform UK won 57 of the council's 81 seats to take control of the authority in local elections in May, overturning 30 years of Conservative Party dominance.

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Following the gains seen in the year after the election of Obama and Carter, gold continued to surge in year two and three as well, a note by research firm Bespoke Investment Group showed.

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Under the impression that he was responsible for Garfield’s election, he believed the new president owed him a job — ambassador to France would be nice — and when none was coming, turned sour.

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