Politics
Politics are one of the most talked about topic on social media. If gives users a chance to express their views and share with like minded people.
Twitter has established itself as one of the forerunners of political discussions for years. And it is also an excellent of up to the minute information about election results.
Ken Mehlman
Kenneth Brian Mehlman (born August 21, 1966, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American attorney and politician who served as the campaign manager for the 2004 re-election campaign of George W. Bush and Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2005 to 2007. On August 26, 2010, Mehlman came out as a homosexual, making him the highest ranking gay politician in the Republican Party. In 2007, President Bush appointed Mehlman to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Mehlman is currently a Managing Director and head of Global Public Affairs for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., he previously served as a partner at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
ALP - Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP; sometimes simply Labor) is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia. Labor currently governs in all states and territories except for Western Australia. Founded in 1891 by the emerging labour movement in Australia, Labor is the country's oldest active political party, having contested and won state seats from 1891, federal seats following the Federation at the 1901 federal election, and gained Australia's first majority in either house at the 1910 federal election. The ALP predates both the British Labour Party and New Zealand Labour Party among others in both party formation and government. The party competes against the Liberal/National Coalition for political office at the federal and state (and sometimes local) level. Learn More
Blagojevich Verdict
Milorad R. "Rod" Blagojevich is an American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. A Democrat, Blagojevich was a State Representative before being elected to the United States House of Representatives representing parts of Chicago. He was elected governor in 2002. Blagojevich was arrested on federal corruption charges on December 9, 2008. The charges involved conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and solicitation of bribery. The Justice Department complaint alleges that the governor conspired to commit several "pay to play" schemes, including attempting "to obtain personal gain ... through the corrupt use" of his authority to fill Barack Obama's vacated United States Senate seat. In a press briefing on the investigation, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald characterized the scheme as auctioning the seat off to "the highest bidder". The federal trial date was set for 3 June 2010.
Ted Stevens
Theodore "Ted" Fulton Stevens was born on November 18, 1923 – c. August 9, 2010. Ted was a former United States Senator from Alaska, serving from December 24, 1968, until January 3, 2009. Stevens was President pro tempore in the 108th and 109th Congresses from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2007. Stevens is the longest-serving Republican senator in history (Strom Thurmond, who might otherwise have held this title, was a Democrat until 1964) and 7th longest-serving senator in history. Stevens was Alaska's senior senator all but 10 days of his tenure. Stevens was replaced as President pro tem by Robert Byrd assuming Byrd's previous honorary role of "President pro tempore emeritus." He is only the third Senator to hold the title of President pro tempore emeritus, having been preceded in this position by Byrd and Strom Thurmond. Learn More
Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Vana Rousseff was born December 14, 1947 and is a Brazilian economist and politician. She is a member of the Workers' Party and was appointed as Chief of Staff by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2005, becoming the first woman to assume the position. Rousseff is of Bulgarian descent. Raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte, Rousseff became interested in socialism during her youth, following the 1964 coup d'état, when she would join the underground resistance against the military dictatorship. She was captured and jailed between 1970 and 1972 and reportedly tortured, although political opponents dispute her accounts of the period. Learn More
Uribe Colombia's 39th President
Álvaro Uribe Vélez, born 4 July 1952) is the 39th President of Colombia and is currently serving his second term in office. In August 2010 he was appointed Vice-chairman of the UN panel investigating the Gaza flotilla raid.
Bill Haslam
Bill Haslam (born 1958) is the mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee and the Republican nominee in the 2010 Tennessee Gubernatorial Election. Click here to learn more about the Tennessee Election Results.
Christina Romer
Christina Romer was born December 25, 1958 and is the Class of 1957 Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and current Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration. Learn More
Tennessee Election Results
Here are the current results for the Tennessee election.