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The All Progressives Congress on Sunday said the party was yet to pick a running mate for its presidential candidate, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

The APC, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, said the public should ignore all the permutations that had been made on who would be Buharis running mate, saying the choice of the running made would be made within the context of the best democratic ideals.

The party spokesman said the leadership of the APC were yet to meet and had not picked a running mate for its presidential candidate.

He said, We are using this opportunity to tell Nigerians to pray for us as we get set to pick a running mate for our presidential candidate. This is because this choice is not just for us but for all Nigerians.

We are assuring Nigerians that the choice of our presidential running mate will also be guided by best democratic ideals.

We appreciate the nationwide interest that the choice of our presidential candidate and his running mate has generated.

It is a mark of the confidence that Nigerians have in us and we want to assure Nigerians that we will not disappoint them.

Meanwhile, the Professional Youths for Good Governance of Nigeria on Sunday described the emergence of Buhari as the presidential candidate of the APC as a good development that would deepen democracy in the country.

The group, in a statement by its National President, Mr. Tunde Daromosu; and National Coordinator, Mr Nasir Abdulquadri, said the APC presidential convention showed that Nigerians were determined to make the right choice and create impact to take the country back on track.

It said, The party showed its preference for democratic principles through a very transparent, credible and hitch-free presidential primary that produced a Nigerian of impeccable and incorruptible character, which has restored hope for a better future for Nigerian youths

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A re-count of votes in the Fisher by-election in South Australia will begin this morning after Labor's Nat Cook claimed victory over the Liberals' Heidi Harris by 23 votes on Saturday.

The Liberals have raised concerns about whether ballots marked with crosses as well as numbers should be considered as valid.

Electoral Commissioner Kay Mousley said the re-count was approved to remove any doubt of a fair result.

"I think for transparency reasons it's best that we give a recount," she said.

"It is a close outcome and this way there can be no doubt in anyone's mind that we have got the right result."

She said the Liberals were concerned with some of the formality decisions.

"So we will go back through all of those informal ballot papers to ensure that there has been a determination made and it quite will be that we still won't agree, but that's fine," Ms Mousley said.

"We know the provisions of the electoral act and what is formal and what's not.

"So we'll discuss those on a case by case basis to ensure that everyone is comfortable that we've looked at the papers again and given due consideration to all those that might have been excluded from the count originally."

Political commentator Dr Clem Macintyre told 891 ABC Adelaide this morning the Liberals had nothing to lose by asking for a recount.

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Alex Jones misleading his audience AGAIN about DEMOCRATS
Alex blames democrats for Glass Steagall act repeal , but the facts just do not add up to his narrative. STOP LISTENING TO THIS GUY He is a right wing think tank corporate shill poisoning your...

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In the six weeks since their repudiation in the midterms, Democrats have seen the opening of fissures within their once-disciplined ranks, marking the start of an internal struggle between now and the 2016 election over the ideological identity and tactical direction of the party.

The tension shown in high relief during the messy final days of the congressional session is in some ways a mirror image of the stresses within the Republican Party, which has been divided between its tea party and establishment factions in recent years.

In the case of both parties, the argument pits the more populist, purist elements of the base against the more pragmatic center.

For Democrats, it is a conflict that was looking for an occasion, said William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who was a policy adviser to former President Bill Clinton. The election provided the occasion.

Having lost big in November, two wings within the party have been trading recriminations over which was more to blame while jostling for position to be the face of the Democrats going into 2016.

They are personified by former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, the presumptive presidential front-runner by virtue of her stature and fame, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the anti-Wall Street clarion favored by many on the left to challenge Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

If the loss of the Senate intensified strains within the party, the $1.1trillion spending bill that passed Saturday night raised two issues that acted as matches to gasoline. One was a provision rolling back portions of the 2010 financial regulatory law known as the Dodd-Frank Act. The other loosened campaign donation limits, allowing the wealthy to give three times the current maximum to the national political parties. That means even more clout for rich donors and the interests they represent.

In both instances, the question was not whether Democrats supported the individual provisions they generally do not. It was whether individual members considered them so egregious as to merit blowing up a wide-ranging deal to which Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) had been a party and for which President Obama was personally lobbying.

What we saw over the last couple of days is an example of a debate that is probably going to go on for a while in the party, said Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist and former aide to Reid.

Proponents of the legislation argued that they had succeeded in preventing even more provisions weakening Dodd-Frank from being inserted in the bill. And at any rate, they said, the legislation was far better than anything Democrats could expect should they allow the debate to continue into next year, when Republicans will be in control of the House and Senate.

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Democrats divided on their path to 2016

By Sara Fischer, CNN

updated 4:02 PM EST, Sun December 14, 2014

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Washington (CNN) -- One might think Democrats are in disarray, given the recent legislative battle that pitted the Obama administration and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid against top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Not so, argue New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and outgoing Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.

"The differences among Democrats are small compared to the huge chasm of Republicans," Schumer said to Candy Crowley on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "You look on issues like minimum wage and equal pay and infrastructure construction, helping people pay for college -- the Democratic Party is unified."

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Schumer called economic issues "the soul of the Democratic Party" and reiterated his belief that party members are on the same page -- name-checking Warren, a newly minted member of the Senate Democrats' leadership team.

"Elizabeth Warren is, even if people don't agree with her, she's constructive," he said of the senator who advocated for Democratic opposition to a spending measure because she felt it rolled by banking regulations. "She's not like Ted Cruz saying, 'Shut down the government or don't fund things if I don't get my way.'"

Patrick, in a separate interview with Crowley, said Democrats suffered heavy losses in the 2014 midterm elections because they lacked a resonating economic message, not because of an emerging rift.

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