BRITAIN was once renowned for its mercifully brief election campaigns.
During the brief election campaign he was frequently on TV.
The brief election announcement, carried on government radio and television stations in Myanmar, formerly Burma, said, "Multiparty general elections for the country's Parliament will be held Sunday, Nov. 7".
The story the polls tell of the last Parliament is that, after a brief post-election honeymoon boost, the Conservatives were on about 36%, a shade below their 2010 election result, from the beginning of 2011 until the "omnishambles" period, in the spring of 2012.
Zhao Xiaomao, who in a brief pre-election speech had boasted of newly paved roads, new public toilets and better services for retirees, easily regained the post of director, a full-time position paying about $200 a month.
It is just under a year since Nick Clegg was the pride of the Liberal Democrats and hailed as Britain's most popular leader since Winston Churchill during a brief period of election hysteria.
Mr. Poundstone's book asks one overriding question: "Is it possible to devise a fair way of voting, one immune to vote splitting?" The answer requires some historical context: a brief history of elections gone terribly awry.
During the US election, as a brief respite from the normalisation and eventual election of a misogynistic, racist demagogue hell bent on dragging America back several decades, everyone on the internet got rather excited about Ken Bone, a member of the public who asked a question at one of the debates.
After a brief respite during the election campaign, the junta has returned to its old habits.
Yet theState Senate, with a brief exception after the2008 election, has been consistently controlledby Republicans.
