The Public Policy Polling survey was conducted on behalf of Democracy for America, a liberal group, but I'd like to see its result confirmed by a nonpartisan pollster before concluding that the composition of the race has changed again.
An argument as elaborate as this one obviously depends upon a number of controversial premises about the best, most realistic way to help the world's poor and the likely future conduct of wealthy liberal democracies.
Hun Sen's letter to the king said the pardon should be granted "in the spirit of national reconciliation, national unity and to make sure the national election process is conducted under the principle of democracy with freedom and pluralism and jointly by all involved parties".
"We're really negating a lot of the benefits of democracy by conducting elections in such a slipshod manner," said Paul George, a Miami historian.
In 2007, Scola co-directed the Personal Democracy Forum unConference, and in 2008 presidential cycle she co-led (Twitter) Vote Report, a project that brought together independent developers, established election protection organizations, and news organizations like NPR to conduct distributed reporting around the practice of democracy.
Another complaint is about tactics; critics have accused reformers of conducting "democracy by blackmail" — threatening more hunger strikes unless the government bends to their demands.
The health of democracy and companies' ability to conduct business online may depend on it.
Spooked by the surge of democracy sweeping the Middle East, China is conducting the harshest crackdown on artists, lawyers, writers and dissidents in a decade.
Its rulers, contemptuous of democracy, wear hypocritical masks of self-righteousness and conduct their business in a ruthless, clandestine fashion.
