The reasons for this may be many but the issue of whether the early front runner 'Red' Ken Livingstone may be allowed to stand lies at the heart of the matter.
The Eastleigh News website this week had a story about the spat between Theresa May and Ken Clarke over her conference cat speech.
You may recall that Ken Clarke had originally proposed increasing the discount for offenders who pleaded guilty.
If re-elected in May 2008, Ken Livingstone will demand inflation-busting increases again.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asked the academy in May to probe the Gulf disaster, saying he wanted "a set of fresh eyes on the issues surrounding" the incident and an independent, science-based understanding of what happened.
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After a two-month investigation, Scotland Yard detectives handed over a file to the then director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, who announced in May 2007 that he was recommending Mr Lugovoi be charged with murder.
Although its problems may have been extreme, Ken Reardon of the University of Illinois's East St Louis Action Research Project estimates that about two dozen Illinois cities are in similar straits.
And that may be what separates former Enron chiefs Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling from countless other executives who have driven their companies into bankruptcy.
For his part, Bank of America's head, Ken Lewis, by now consumed with buyer's remorse, may have known more about the handouts than he let on.
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The usefulness of the e-mails may also strengthen the hand of those who, like Sir Ken Macdonald, formerly Director of Public Prosecutions, want Britain to admit domestic intercept evidence in court, as many countries do.
The decision, which Dailymotion may appeal, could also be bad news for Google, says Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center.
Ken Caldeira of Stanford University, another of the authors, reckons that it may be feasible to place sulphates in the stratosphere near the poles and thus cool the Earth in a place where global warming manifests itself most strongly, though that would scarcely please the Russians and the Canadians.
Ken Bell was standing in Pendle Central in the Lancashire County Council elections on 2 May.
CreditKarma CEO Ken Lin says that even though the scores are highly correlated with FICO scores, some may still be off by 100 to 150 points.
Last May Jack was kind enough to write up his reasons for holding Depomed and contributor Ken Kam published them on our Intelligent Investing contributor page ( click here to read his write up).
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But with Tories in charge of home affairs (Theresa May), foreign affairs (William Hague), defence (Liam Fox) and justice (Ken Clarke), they will not get their way on these issues.
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