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Barack Obama’s bid for the US Democratic presidential nomination has been marred by the controversy over remarks made by his fomer pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

And now that relationship is being used by the Republicans in a strategy Democrats say is racially tinged.
 
We sent Max Blumenthal, a writer for the progressive magazine, The Nation, to the southern state of Mississippi. 

He asks if attack ads used in a congressional election there could be a sign of things to come.

Al Jazeera’s Alireza Ronaghi reports on the reformists campaign to try and win the upcoming elections in 2009.
Conservatives in Iran are looking to increase their majority in a second round of parliamentary elections, while reformists are just hoping to gain enough support to get their voices heard.
Reformists are hopeful that the ‘failing economy’ in Iran will encourage people to vote for them.
82 of 290 seats are being contested in a system that is stacked against them. The best the reformers can hope for is to gain from their opponents’ mistakes.

People and Power follows the 2008 Parliamentary elections in Iran, revealing the underlying forces that structure Iranian politics.

Serbs are getting ready to go to the polls to elect a new government.

The pro-western Democratic Party wants to maintain close links with Europe but nationalist leaders are advocating closer links with Russia instead.

Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Phillips reports from Belgrade on the election battle.

Should the Sadr movement be barred from Iraq general elections if the Medhi army isn’t disbanded?