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4 hours ago · Puerto Rico congressional representative Jenniffer González has defeated Gov. Pedro Pierluisi in a surprise upset during a primary election held by their pro-statehood party. The two ran on the ...
21 hours ago · History Home of former Governor Jim McGreevey. Plainfield was settled in 1684 by Quakers, and incorporated as a city in 1869. Formerly a bedroom suburb in the New York metropolitan area, it has become the urban center of 10 closely allied municipalities, with diversified industries, including printing and the manufacture of chemicals, clothing, electronic equipment, and vehicular parts.
21 hours ago · Instant-runoff voting ( IRV ), also known as alternative vote ( AV) [1] or plurality loser, [2] is a ranked-choice voting system that modifies plurality by repeatedly eliminating the last-place finisher until only one candidate is left. [3] [4] In the United States, IRV is often mistakenly conflated with ranked-choice voting (RCV); [5] however ...
21 hours ago · Oakland, California. / 37.80444°N 122.27083°W / 37.80444; -122.27083. Oakland is the most populous city in and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the third-largest city overall in the Bay Area.
21 hours ago · On September 4, 2008, the Obama campaign announced they raised $10 million in the 24-hour period after Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin 's acceptance speech. The RNC reported raising $1 million in the same period. [92] On October 19, 2008, Obama's campaign announced a record fundraising total of $150 million for September 2008.
21 hours ago · Website. zoranealehurston .com. Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [1] : 17 [2] : 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [3]
