He has seen his popularity slip and decided not to run for re-election this year, but could help the Dems lock up a state most observers currently put in the "showdown" category.
U.S. officials have condemned pre-election violence and planned to send observers, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said.
Unless they do so and the army lifts the state of emergency, foreign observers are unlikely to lend legitimacy to the elections.
For many observers outside of Penn State, however, such fidelity appears blind and insensitive.
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The Sunday public affairs program, which was seen in more than 200 countries around the world, featured interviews with presidents and heads of state, politicians, candidates and observers.
The United States, most Arab leaders and many international observers favor establishing a Palestinian state separate from Israel as the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Observers say a new Libyan state is slowly starting to take shape, but it still could be years -- generations even -- before the revolution will bear fruit.
Observers say relations between Church and state have warmed in Cuba in recent years.
Many industry observers seem to assume (but rarely state outright) that Hadoop is HDFS and HDFS is Hadoop.
Few observers fully appreciated just how dysfunctional the Russian state was at the time.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, is involved in a power struggle with his predecessor, the observers said.
Meanwhile, China said it will send observers to join the U.N. monitoring mission, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported, citing a foreign ministry spokesman.
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Given that Perry and Dewhurst have worked together for almost a decade, some political observers characterize the race as a possible referendum on Perry, the state's longest-serving governor in history.
The US state department condemned the attacks in Damascus but said they must not deter the Arab League observers from doing their work.
When the franchise was renewed in 2008, more than a few observers cringed at the short-sighted decision to deed the land to the state.
However observers warn against over-stating the existence of one unified insurgency against the Pakistani state.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported Sunday that a delegation of U.N. observers was visiting the al-Khaldiyeh neighborhood of Homs.
The American State Department urged the Algerian government to attend to the issues raised by the opposition and the observers but stopped short of commenting on the outcome.
Some observers say their influence is now on the wane, adding that this has allowed the state to exert greater control over the press.
Observers may well compare the seemingly cushy deal Mr. Baldwin got for his New York State tax flub with the harsher treatment fellow actor Wesley Snipes got from the feds.
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International and Nigerian observers have so far praised this month's parliamentary and presidential polls (contests for state governors are scheduled for April 26th), marking a contrast to a widespread rejection of the previous ones in 2007.
There are plenty of learned observers who laud this trend, ranging from former Secretary of Defense William Perry to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
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