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Since this presidency came a bit early (3 years too early), here's a brief summary to Wulff's resignation back in February, which also comes as a disadvatage to Merkel. I'm trying to find videos since they're always more entertaining, but here's what I got so far. P.S: Sorry for bombarding you with so many pages on a Sunday!

By Gareth Jones and Alice Baghdjian BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans resoundingly elected Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor and human rights activist from communist East Germany, as president of the European Union's largest country on Sunday, posing a potential political headache for Chancellor Angela Merkel.

According to an opinion poll, 80% trust Gauck, yet two thirds think he'd be an "uncomfortable" president for the country's political parties.

I had no idea Germany was even electing a new president, so I was totally surprised when I read news headlines today morning.

A slideshow of the five leading candidates for the French presidency

Speaker of Bundestag lower house of parliament says 72-year-old won 991 votes in federal assembly German MPs have elected Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor and human rights activist from east Germany, as the president of the EU's largest country by a large majority in a first round of voting.

We wanted infotainment, we got infotainment ;-) 

This is another part of the episode, covering the Secret Service Prostitution Scandal, some replies to twitter questions and a good point made about Super PACs and their role in negative advertising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEG31QE4y9w&feature=relmfu

still makes me laugh!

wish someone tagged this earlier

True that

"because we know their future and all of our children's future is at stake in this election and I don't want to be the guy who has to sit with my granddaughter, 20 years from now, and tell stories about an America where people once were free." -rick santorum CAN I JUST KILL MYSELF NOW??

3 March 2012 Last updated at 13:15 ET Webcams have been installed at polling stations in response to fraud allegations Russian voters are going to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president. Vladimir Putin, who was president from 2000-2008, is hoping to return to the post after spending four years as prime minister, a step he took to abide by the constitution.

Guys, I found this completely useful especially since we all got the Tunisian president question wrong. The video is beautiful. I want to write my position paper on this so badly! Thoughts??

thats the video link previously shared http://kefteji.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/5-best-tunisian-elections-videos

Dina :P

It's really close.

First time in French history that the incumbent president loses in the first round! Big blow to Sarkozy! Plus it shows how a lot of people are not voting for Hollande, but rather against Sarkozy..

18%... 18% - Sorry, still not over it! -

"Here's the buzzed-about anti-Obama political ad in which Barack Obama's oppressive coolness is exposed. There's a lot about this strategy I don't understand. Is being cool a problem when you're a president? Does this ad make Obama's fans like him any less? Could Mitt Romney ever pull off Al Green?"

Obama's humor once again

And this isn't the first time that a dog is the subject of the American presidential campaign trail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fala_(dog) (Scroll down to "Fala Speech")

Socialist voters face a nervous wait for the results of today's presidential election runoff between Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande after final opinion polls following Wednesday's fiery television debate revealed a late surge in favour of the outgoing president, who has trailed his leftwing rival throughout the race.The polls indicated that Hollande was still on track to win the second round runoff vote, but revealed that the gap between the presidential rivals had narrowed from 10 percentage points a week ago to between four and six.

Rick Santorum plans to endorse Mitt Romney in the general election against President Barack Obama, that much is clear. The question is, how strongly will he support his former rival after months of brutal back-and-forth attacks during the Republican primary season? The answer could become more clear on Friday, when Santorum and Romney plan to [...]

The socialists did it!!

REUTERS - President Nicolas Sarkozy leads his Socialist challenger Francois Hollande for the first time in an opinion poll on Tuesday for round one of France's presidential election, but is still shown losing in the second round. The Ifop/Fiducial poll put support for Sarkozy at 28.5 percent in the first round on April 22, up from 27 percent at the end of February.

Thank God.

Gingrich accuses the president of dividing the country using racial politics.

As Crowley points out, Mitt Romney was pretty well-poised to seize on Obama's open mic moment, in which he told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he'd have "more flexibility" on missile defense after his re-election. Romney dug in on the issue Monday, hammering the White House on the stump and calling Russia "without question our number one geopolitical foe" on CNN.

"you can call a napkin a car, but it doesn't make it a car." the deep philosophies of Rick Santorum.

I think the interesting question is, who is responsible for this? Could this be Obama firing back at Santorum's Obamaville ad?

Actually Dina, Abraham Lincoln had a similar quote that said something like if you call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs does it have? Four, because calling the dog's tail a leg doesn't make it a leg... :p just sayin'