"Americans who do not vote are saying, basically, 'Elections are all manipulated by different interest groups, so it's no use.' " It's a fair point — even if it's an opportunistic one, from a newspaper that praises the virtues of the one-party system.
"It's only the regime supporters who participated, so there was basically no elections in Homs".
"If you don't have a state which can deliver things, then you are basically having elections which can't deliver on their promises".
Again, political scientists have done a lot of work on this--the underlying factors, the economy, whether you're at war--can predict the outcome, but that's, of course, because, basically, most elections are referended on an incumbent administration, and I think this one isn't.
Basically the general election is coming up next month, and this is a way of showing the public that he's human.
As Jonathan Chait observes, "If Republicans kill a bill, Democrats can run on it again in 2016, and basically every future election, and the underlying dynamics will get continuously better as the nonwhite share of the electorate rises every cycle".
"To whoever thinks San Francisco is loopy and left-wing, this election basically said, 'No, it's really not,' " said David Latterman, associate director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco.
A prime minister who basically won an election by holding up Liam Byrne's "I'm afraid there is no money" note has effectively dumped Oliver Letwin on to his successor's desk – in all senses of that verb.
Well, then we'd give every toss-up and near toss-up to Romney and basically declare the election over.
JS: Well, just to drive that, conclude that point, that the democrats know how to sabotage a campaign, and they've done so consistently for, you know, ever since George McGovern's election, basically.
