After Mr. Kruger resigned his seat and pleaded guilty in December, a seemingly straightforward election between a longtime politician and a newcomer turned ugly.
Instead of a straightforward reelection campaign for Iran's incumbent president, the question of supreme leader succession now looms over next month's election.
The problem of money in judicial elections has a straightforward solution: appointive state judiciaries.
The Conservative general election strategy is a straightforward appeal to patriotism.
What should be a straightforward quality assurance check on the election result seems impossible to get.
The federal court ruling halting the recount in Michigan illustrates why; what should be a straightforward quality assurance check on the election result seems impossible to get.
The election will be conducted on a straightforward, one person, one vote basis and the result announced on the weekend of 12/13th September.
One is a straightforward through a mirror darkly vision of the US election through Russian media machine eyes.
However, when reporting the results of the 2016 election, the BBC will ignore the results of these to allow for a straightforward comparison with 2011's seats.
The US presidential election, in spite of some uncertainties about Mr Romney's real position on many issues, is a straightforward and dramatic electoral contest.
David Cameron's New Year statement was a straightforward political message urging voters to stick with austerity and to put the Tories back into power in the May election.
