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Bush busy engaging constituents on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate ahead of the 2004 presidential election.

Just 47 percent of Asian-Americans voted in the 2012 presidential election.

The election of 1964 produced the most liberal Congress since the Democratic landslide of 1936.

The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.

In 1989, a newly registered Republican in Louisiana named David Duke won his only election by a fluke.

Election of representatives from New York to consider the federal constitution held.

The Colonel left, and in a few days the election coming off, each candidate made his appearance at the critical German polls.

“Boom” refers, of course, to the large amount of support which Cleveland obtained on his second election to the Presidency.

In admitting a member, if no form of election has been prescribed, each candidate must be elected separately.

He was all for change and innovation, and managed to get the principle of formal election to the chairmanship established.

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