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	Bills Khakis - About Bills - Free Press - Fall 2003
		The term “Khaki Election” is borrowed, as are most things of the color khaki, from the British to describe a democratic election heavily impacted by on-set or immediate aftermath of war.
		In stark contrast to the upcoming 2004 presidential election, the elections of 1968 and 1972 were fundamentally different as it relates to the impact war had on politics in that era.
		Test their legendary ability to hide dirt; see why “khaki” comes from the ancient Persian word for “dust.” When they’ve finally reached the last entry in your evolving definition of “what is dirty, anyway?” a quick hosing and a sunny stretch on the terrace table, and they’re probably ready for the trip home.
	www.billskhakis.com /about_bills/press_fall2004.html (1739 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1945 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United Kingdom General Election of 1945 held on 5 July 1945 but not counted and declared until 26 July 1945 (due to the time it took to transport the votes of those serving overseas) was one of the most significant general elections of the 20th century.
		It resulted in the shock election defeat of the Conservatives led by Winston Churchill and the landslide victory of the Labour Party led by Clement Attlee, who won a majority of 145 seats.
		The result of the election was almost totally unexpected, given the heroic status of Winston Churchill, but reflected the voters' belief that the Labour Party were better able to rebuild the country following the war than the Conservatives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1945 (587 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Death of the by-election?
		By-elections have played an important role in our political history, as shown by a number of examples from recent years.
		In the 19 general elections between 1832-1918, the Ipswich constituency was a two-member seat.
		But here is where 1997 clouds the issue: in the election that year Labour's percentage majority rocketed from 0.6% to 21.6%; and in June this year it barely fell to 20.8%.
	news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/uk_politics/newsid_1664000/1664427.stm (678 words)

	The Hindu : Premature dissolutions
		Elections to the Lok Sabha are likely to be called because the BJP is riding a victory wave after its performance in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
		The main reason for granting a premature election is that in the absence of an alternative government, parliamentary governance is no longer possible.
		But the principles were themselves torn apart when Neville Chamberlain opportunistically called the `Khaki' election in 1900 at the time of the Boer War in Africa.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2004/02/06/stories/2004020603631000.htm (1313 words)

	adamyoshida.com: A Khaki Election
		Well, if conducted in the right way, an election now could give them that choice and, in so doing, it could build a solid plurality, which could hold its position against the massed forces of the left for years and years.
		It is not enough to move into such an election simply arguing for the deployment in technical terms – as part of our NATO commitment, etc. Instead, the Prime Minister must articulate a vision that explains that Canada is in Afghanistan for the sake of Canadians.
		In a normal election, I believe that a weak leader with the disadvantages possessed by Mme.
	www.adamyoshida.com /2007/09/khaki-election.html (2457 words)

	GENUKI: The Merthyr Election of 1906
		As during the previous election the contest was three-cornered and the issues, with the exception of the war controversy, revolved around similar themes.
		The 1906 election re-affirmed Hardie's representation of Merthyr Boroughs.
		Although the election seemed to reflect the extension and solidity of the Labour Movement in the area, this Labour victory was stultified by its dependence on Liberal goodwill and the ideal of independent Labour representation remained a chimera for the workmen of Merthyr Boroughs.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/wal/MerthyrElection.html (1814 words)

	Lessons of a Khaki election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Such elections are often called "khaki" elections, after the British election of October 1900, which was held smack in the middle of the Boer War in South Africa.
		In the general election of 1900, the ruling Conservatives declared that "Every vote given to the Liberals is a vote given to the Boers," and then galloped to a landslide victory.
		So while it is true that incumbent administrations have real advantages in "khaki" elections -- and the Republicans in 2004 are certainly pushing these advantages as far as they can -- the fitness of the opposition party may well be the deciding factor in the final votes.
	www3.sympatico.ca /ian.g.mason/Khaki_election.htm (598 words)

	BBC NEWS \| VOTE2001 \| WALES \| Thursday gets the vote
		The last time an election was held on another day was in 1931, when Britons trooped to the polls on a Tuesday.
		In 1974 Ted Heath was expected to call the election on 7 February at the beginning of the miners strike and three-day week, but postponed it until 28 Feb and then lost.
		There was speculation that John Major might call a "khaki election" in 1991, but having lost a succession of by-elections he did not call it until April 1992 - saying that it would have been 'immoral' to call it on the back of the Gulf War.
	news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/wales/newsid_1373000/1373409.stm (495 words)

	Labour Party (UK) - Biocrawler definition:Labour Party (UK) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The aftermath of the election defeat in 1979 provoked a period of bitter internal rivalry in Labour.
		At the 1987 general election, the party was again defeated in a landslide, but had established itself as the clear challengers to the Conservatives and had fought an effective campaign.
		By the time of the 1992 general election, the party had reformed to such an extent that it was perceived as a credible candidate for government.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Labour_Party_(UK) (4015 words)

	A Brief History Of The Howard Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Since the 1998 election, the ALP had won office in Victoria, trounced the coalition government in Western Australia, been re-elected in a landslide in Queensland, and snatched the formerly safe Liberal seat of Ryan in a by-election.
		In a July by-election in the Melbourne seat of Aston, the Liberal Party retained the seat whilst suffering a 4% swing against it.
		The ensuing election, held on November 10, 2001, was dubbed a "khaki" election.
	www.australianpolitics.com /executive/howard/history.shtml (337 words)

	The Militant - November 19, 2001 -- Communist League candidate in Australia campaigns against imperialism and war
		Campaign supporters have set up tables in the streets and knocked on doors in and around the working-class neighborhoods of Campsie and Lakemba, the district in which the new Pathfinder bookstore and the campaign headquarters of the Communist League election campaign are located.
		Election campaign supporters also took part in a recent stop-work rally organized by nurses, 24,000 of whom walked off the job in protest at chronic staff shortages and increasing workloads.
		Poulsen explained that "these fights, like those by potato farmers in Tasmania and Victoria to defend their livelihoods, are all part of the resistance by working people to the capitalist offensive at home, the biggest obstacle to the rulers' war drive abroad."
	www.themilitant.com /2001/6544/654461.html (835 words)

	The general election of 1945
		Another precedent was what became known as the khaki election of 1900, at which the Conservatives were triumphantly elected as the 'patriotic party' in the Boer War.
		The election was to be held on 5 July 1945.
		With hindsight it is apparent that the opinion polls and the by-election results (and see The Road to 1945 for a fine analysis of the swing in significant by-elections) both pointed to a shift to the Left and a Labour victory.
	www.univ-pau.fr /~parsons/45Elections.html (2784 words)

	Pakistan's election \| Khaki election \| Economist.com
		Is it the chorus of politicians, journalists and activists who insist that the elections to be held on October 10th to the National Assembly and the legislatures of the four provinces will be a fraud, and that the governments they induct will be at the mercy of the president's whims?
		The elections are unlikely to be fully free or fair, and the government they bring in will face an uncomfortable choice between submitting to the president and confronting him head on.
		The elections will end the formal monopoly of power that General Musharraf, who is also head of the armed forces, has enjoyed since he ousted the last civilian prime minister, suspended the constitution and unseated the parliament and the provincial assemblies.
	www.economist.com /world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1370397 (223 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion \| In the next election, khaki may be the colour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In the next election, khaki may be the colour
		Like generals fighting the last war, politicians are tempted to fight the last election campaign.
		There is a consensus in Westminster that Labour won in 2001 because it had the most convincing policies on public services, whereas the Tories banged on about crime, asylum and Europe.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/08/21/dl2101.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2004/08/21/ixoplead.html (453 words)

	Bulletin - The black hole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This particular khaki election does have the advantage from the incumbent’s point of view that it is all happening in a distant country and Australia’s involvement is little more than token.
		One of the most important reasons is directly relevant to the second leg of the khaki election – illegal immigrants.
		But it is possible to say that the open-ended arrangements we have entered into on defence and migration have dramatically changed the fiscal outlook – for the worse.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/eddesk.nsf/All/445BF1F96DB30D9FCA256AE30008A091 (1682 words)

	When are you quitting, Tony Blair?\|7May05\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The election results were still coming in when angry Labour MPs with reduced majorities, the press and pundits delivered their damning verdict on Tony Blair.
		Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, a longstanding Labour cheerleader, said, “This was a khaki election.” Damningly, she concluded that Labour cannot campaign in next May’s local elections with Blair at the helm.
		News of his election flashed across the globe, signalling a rejection of Blair and of the continuing war in Iraq.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php4?article_id=6453 (761 words)

	Lateline - 24/10/2001: Major parties fight for power following Labors surge in polls . Australian Broadcasting Corp
		MARGOT O'NEILL: There are signs that the khaki is beginning to wear a little thin with the electorate, with a resurgent Kim Beazley in the opinion polls and talkback radio dominated by issues much closer to home like the GST [goods and services tax] and illegal immigration.
		GERARD HENDERSON: We had big military commitments and big debates in Australia in the 1960s but I don't recall Robert Menzies ever standing in front of an armoured personnel carrier, even when we had thousands of troops in the field, to pose as the leader of a nation at war.
		And, then, at the moment, the news editors are choosing that above the election campaign as the key message for the day.
	www.abc.net.au /lateline/content/2001/s399915.htm (585 words)

	TARIQ ALI - THE COLOUR KHAKI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Qazi Hussain’s election as Amir of the Jamaat-i-Islami marked a generational shift in an organization that had remained under the control of its founder Maulana Maudoodi and his deputy, Mian Tufail, since its origin in 1941.
		The functionaries of the khaki state regularly bullied and cheated their tenants: they were denied permission to build brick homes; the women were molested; and management approval had to be obtained—and paid for—to get electrification for the villages or build schools and roads.
		The authorities, khaki and civilian, had been attempting to loosen the grip of the tenants over the land by offering short-term contracts and replacing battai—share-cropping arrangements that allowed tenants to keep half of what they produce—by cash-rents.
	www.newleftreview.net /NLR25301.shtml (8620 words)

	Bulletin - Election 2001: Image makers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		On the footpaths and concrete squares and within the occasional deep green park sunk in the shadows of the towers, Chinese citizens danced the slow and hypnotic ritual of tai chi.
		While the media has labelled this a “khaki election”, just how khaki it will be won’t be known until polling day.
		During an election campaign, the images sent home are the important things, and Howard knows it better than most.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/eddesk.nsf/printing/C581F3B117F1C0FBCA256AEC00298854 (1582 words)

	Battlelines Drawn As Howard And Beazley Enter Election Campaign [October 5, 2001] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Within an hour of the announcement of a November 10 general election, the battlelines were quickly drawn at press conferences held by the two leaders, John Howard and Kim Beazley.
		Jobs, job security, health and education are the key issues in the election, according to Kim Beazley.
		He ridiculed the Prime Minister's refusal to commit to serving a 3-year term and claimed that the government's stability was in question due to the number of senior ministerial departures.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2001/01-10-05c.shtml (170 words)

	UK general election, 1945 - TheBestLinks.com - Khaki election, Labour Party (UK), Liberal Party (UK), United Kingdom ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Khaki election, UK general election, 1945, Labour Party (UK), Liberal Party...
		The British general election of 1945 held on July 5th 1945 was one of the most significant general elections of the 20th century.
		Churchill and the Conservatives are also generally considered to have ran a poor campaign in comparison to Labour; Churchill's statement that Atlee's program would require a Getapo-esque body to implement is considered to have been particularly poorly-judged.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Khaki_election.html (289 words)

	Socialism Today -The message of the June elections
		The election of the 78 UK members of the European parliament (MEPs), with every registered elector eligible to vote, was the first all-Britain poll held since the invasion of Iraq.
		Turnout in the European elections increased from 23.3% in 1999 to 38.2%.
		The local elections saw a nine per cent rise to 40%, while turnout in the London elections was up, less dramatically, from 33.6% to 36.9%.
	www.socialismtoday.org /85/britain.html (4586 words)

	News & Analysis: Blair's Bloody Nose: Britain's General Election And The Power Of The Anti-War Vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		It is a peculiarity of the British 'first past the post' system of elections that the Labour Party received only 3 per cent more of the vote than the runner-up in the election, the Conservatives (35.2 to 32.3 per cent), but received nearly twice as many seats as them (355 to 197).
		However, during the election campaign, commentators (and Labour politicians) asserted constantly that the war on Iraq was a fringe issue with little significance for the election.
		Before the election, I suggested that there were two main criteria by which the Establishment might judge the effect of the war.
	electroniciraq.net /news/1959.shtml (4214 words)

	Tony Blair Alone Bears the Blame
		It was he who set up the Jenkins review of the electoral system, at the time genuinely persuaded of the need for a proportional system.
		This election has again shown the urgent need for reform, with a low turn out and angry voters denied any meaningful choice in parties to vote for.
		Under PR the parties of the left would be in a permanent coalition, instead of this pointless battle between parties with hardly a shred of difference between them.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0506-27.htm (1012 words)

	Khaki and Camo \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Paul Krugman writes that the Bush administration will fight a "khaki election" next year, taking advantage of the general good feeling after the Iraq war.
		The original khaki election was the British election of 1900, contested during the Boer War.
		I long for the "all our exes live in texas" election, but my worst fears are for an asleep at the wheel election.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/26163 (1870 words)

	printarticle.
		IF WE are talking about truth in last year's election campaign, it didn't just fall victim with the children.
		He got $343 million for the war and for border control in additional estimates (the war alone was $320 million).
		And, in the chatter about the future deputy leadership, the Education Minister, Brendan Nelson, is being praised by the Costello camp as a good parliamentary performer.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/04/18/1019020682520.html (1072 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World
		Labor leader Kim Beazley, admitting he entered the election as the underdog, said he expected voters to turn from the U.S.-led hunt for Saudi-born fugitive Osama bin Laden and start focusing on domestic issues once the campaign was underway.
		"I have never been more committed to winning an election or a political campaign in my life," he said as he kicked off the five-week campaign for what is being dubbed a "khaki election", a reference to military uniforms.
		But political analysts are expecting a tough election that must be won in marginal seats as Labor only needs a 0.8 percent national swing from the last election in 1998, or six more seats in the 150-strong lower house, to seize power.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,60911-1-9,00.html (709 words)

	Resources - Not much mandate for majors - 13 December 2001
		In the lead up to the vaguely "khaki" election of 2001, numerous experts predicted that the election would see the squeezing of the minor parties and a stampede back to the major parties as voters sought out security.
		Indeed, on primary votes, the Howard 2001 victory was the 5th weakest mandate of the 24 elections held in the last 60 years.
		The rise of the "micro" parties, combined with the ability of such parties to direct their block votes in Senate elections, raises serious issues about the need for reforming rules of registration of political parties and the role of preferences.
	www.brisinst.org.au /resources/brisbane_institute_minors.html (1085 words)

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