"A lot of people want democracy here, but they are just not comfortable with elections under American supervision," Mr. Nadhmi said.
Whether he is feared or not, Mr. Tanaka's comfortable re-election solidified his reputation as the country's leading reformist politician, a title he had already won from the prime minister.
Yet the political winners and losers may emerge more quickly.For Mr Brown, a successful G20 and PBR would accelerate the momentum he has gained from his handling of the economic crisis and Labour's surprisingly comfortable by-election victory in Glenrothes on November 6th.
Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, who sits in a far more comfortable re-election position than many of his colleagues, took the fight to them, saying he was "embarrassed by his fellow freshmen Republican lawmakers in D.C.," according to a report in Politico.
"When academics Rob Ford and Matt Goodwin recently ranked every seat in the country in terms of their favourability to a Ukip win based on demographics, this seat was ranked 271, just 15 places behind Newark, where the Conservative party cruised to a comfortable by-election victory.
Board terms are usually only one year, so don't get too comfortable: Annual elections allow for change when it's needed.
Meanwhile DPP candidates in the south, where the opposition is at its strongest, still enjoy comfortable support.Being local elections, this month's votes are more about housing and city infrastructure than relations with China.
Yesterday's results seemed to indicate that, in New York City, with its overwhelmingly Democratic electorate and its tradition of electing both Democratic and Republican mayors, voters were comfortable with the partisan election tradition.
He won by a comfortable margin, although the election was the closest in the PRI's history.
