It was not entirely surprising: in the Democratic primary, held on August 2nd, he took 43.6% of the votes to Mr Luckett's 39.2%, and then promptly won the endorsements of all the other candidates.
On May 2nd, he was elected with the support of 31 of the OAS's 34 member states.Mr Insulza is an experienced and pragmatic politician.
When he and Mr Humbert were finally pushed out on July 2nd, he insisted in a statement that he had "no responsibility in the A380 delays".Mr Forgeard tried to cling to his job partly because he is under investigation by French regulators for having exercised his share options in March when he should have had an inkling about Airbus's looming problems.
From a poorish location in the first cut – as Augusta National calls its carefully manicured light rough – beside the fairway on the par-five 2nd, he hit a fine shot with his rescue club and took two putts from 40 feet to recover the earlier loss.
After that pause on the 2nd he hit his second shot right on to the front of green, then rolled a putt 70 feet from around the lip of a bunker to set up his first birdie of the day.
On May 2nd he won a clear victory in a presidential election, gaining some 47% of the votes to 31% for Guillermo Endara, a former president installed in power by the American invasion of 1989, which toppled General Noriega.Mr Torrijos ran a clever campaign.
So when Sonny Perdue, Georgia's governor, signed an ambitious and comprehensive transport bill that was three years in the making into law on June 2nd, he did so not by bridging those divisions but by codifying them.The bill divides Georgia into 12 regions, and gives each the power to decide on its own transport projects.
"Park reopens January 2nd," he said.
On December 2nd he invited donors to lunch.
On September 2nd, he wrote to the chief justice.
