"They'll say, 'Oh, I'm just one person,' or 'It's just the same kind of people being elected over and over again,' " she said.
In 1979, the year before Reagan was elected, over-all government spending came to 19.6 per cent of G.D.P.
Though the election belonged to the Democrats, Breckinridge, a Whig, was elected over five challengers for the office.
Mr. Cannella was elected over Ms. Caballero, the target of the attacks by the correction officers' union.
And will it change after March when (supposedly) President Vladimir Putin's successor will be elected?Over coffee, participants competed to cite new outrages in the pro-Kremlin press.
When Labour won its landslide victory in 1945 so many Fabians were elected (over 220) that the parliamentary Labour party was said to "look just like an enormous Fabian school".
Besides 1992, they were 1960, when John F. Kennedy was elected over Vice President Richard M. Nixon; 1976, when Jimmy Carter defeated President Gerald Ford; and 1980, when Ronald Reagan defeated President Carter.
Once a bypassed talking shop with no real power, the Strasbourg parliament, which will be elected over the next four days, has gained greatly expanded powers of "co-decision" with the commission and the national governments represented in the European council.
In February 1801, Jefferson was elected over Aaron Burr after 36 ballots in the House of Representatives when Alexander Hamilton, describing Jefferson as "the lesser evil," used his influence to break a deadlock that lasted all night.
As we saw in Air Product's effort to take over Airgas in 2010, the biggest takeover defense a company can have is the combination of a staggered board, which requires directors to be elected over multiple years, and a poison pill.
