The Korangal Valley is the center of one of the most vicious contests of all.
According to the International Crisis Group, tensions within and between the two major political parties, competing claims to the presidency between northern and Niger Delta politicians and along religious lines, along with inadequate preparations by the electoral commission and apparent bias by security agencies, suggest the country is heading toward a volatile and vicious electoral contest.
Cesare Prandelli, who resigned as Italy manager after the vicious, ill-tempered contest, said it was astonishing that no action had been taken.
In the last few months of his term, as the first vicious presidential election contest (between Jefferson and John Adams) geared up, the president did little but hold ceremonial meetings with Indian leaders, accept visits of congratulation and write farewell letters.
He fought with unions, raised the transit fare, ended open enrollment at City University and, perhaps most gallingly to Beame himself, engaged in a contest of vicious racial politics in his 1973 runoff with Herman Badillo, then a liberal democrat -- a campaign during which trucks blaring salsa mysteriously appeared in Jewish neighborhoods in the middle of the night.
Of course, character has always been batted around campaigns, ever since the vicious 1796 and 1800 contests in which John Adams was denounced as a scheming monarchist and philanderer, and Thomas Jefferson as an atheist revolutionary whose election would mean, as The Connecticut Courant warned, that "murder, robbery, rape and incest will all be openly taught and practiced".
He is Arturo Montiel, who is about to complete his term as governor of the state of Mexico (the country's largest).The PRI's internal contest is as vicious as the PAN's is gentlemanly.
Excerpt: What Hark desperately wanted was a will contest — a long vicious fight with packs of lawyers filing tons of legal crap.
South Carolina, famous for ugly and vicious politics, will be an important contest as top-tier candidates like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Trump face off in a southern state which is home to a significant population of veterans.
Or they could just read quotes about Trump from his fellow Republican candidates, to show the vicious nature of the Republican nominating contest right now.
