WASHINGTON -- More than a year after its initial election victory at a Guitar Center store, the union representing the chain's first unionized employees is accusing the retailer of bargaining in "bad faith" and trying to purge the union.
George Lakoff, who advised US president Barack Obama in the runup to his initial election, wrote a book called Don't Think of an Elephant.
None of which is to say that Mr. Villaraigosa has recaptured the electric popularity that he enjoyed in the flush of his initial election, as a mayor of Mexican descent in a city with a vibrant and expanding population of Mexican-Americans.
If he manages to win this year, it is likely to be by less than that, which would make him the first President in a hundred and twenty-four years to win a second term by a smaller margin than in his initial election.
At face level, Walker has indeed pulled off an impressive feat by winning three elections in the past four years – his initial election as governor in 2010, a recall election in 2012 which he survived, and re-election in 2014.
Even though Casson went into the race with an edge over his opponent following the initial election on 31 May – when neither won more than 50% in a crowded field – Brugnaro emerged the victor because he gained the support of conservative allies in the rightwing Northern League party.
Following his initial election in 1972, Biden was re-elected to six additional terms, in the elections of 1978, 1984, 1990 , 1996 2002, and 2008, usually getting about 60 percent of the vote.
But Georgia law requires that individuals who vote in a runoff election must be registered to vote in the initial election, Kemp spokeswoman Candice Broce said in an email.
"Instead, the initial election can only be viewed as an experiment in democracy that must be re-evaluated if it is ever to confer legitimacy".
Not long after his initial election, Erdoğan's agents embarked on a large and sinister campaign to destroy his political opponents, jailing hundreds — journalists, university rectors, military officers, aid workers — on trumped-up charges and fabricated evidence.
