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A day before the Maryland primary, Ian Jannetta attended a Barack Obama rally back in February at the University of Maryland, in College Park. He brought back this report.

In an effort to balance out her international political bias, Meghan Forbes supplements her previous post on the recent Czech presidential elections with its Russian counterpart.

After months of controversy, the Russian presidential elections closed with a bang last Sunday. Dmitri Medvedev was the inevitable victor, lifted up and placed on the presidential pedestal by his right-hand man Vladimir Putin.

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Meghan Forbes, of Morning Edition at NPR-W, reports on a less reported presidential election taking place this very day.

Yesterday, Romney dropped out of the Republican race for the presidential nomination, making John McCain the indisputable leading man. Meanwhile, the war still wages between Clinton and Obama for the Democratic slot. But today, a very different kind of presidential election is taking place. For this is the day that Parliament meets in the Czech Republic to vote on the relatively powerless figure-head of President.

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Meghan Forbes visits El Camino Real High School in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley to talk to the under age about who they would vote for, on this day of many primaries. Who they would vote for, that is, if they were old enough to vote.