Labour hopes to construct an election-winning coalition from lefty Liberal Democrats, new voters and disillusioned non-voters.
After the 2006 election, Sean Trende constructed a graph comparing the incumbent campaign spending advantages with their eventual margins of victory.
Since then, however, it has become clear that Medvedev is not the liberal reformer that some had hoped but part of Russia's managed democracy construct, in which elections are stage-managed and dissent swiftly squashed.
They also did things like map Cairo (which was larger than Paris at the time), illuminate its streets, construct hospitals, supervise elections and even help feed the population by building modern bakeries.
More than content, in fact: To date, his general-election campaign seems carefully constructed to be as cautious and boring and even attention-repelling as possible.
Worst of all: the model of democratic rule painstakingly constructed since 2001 collapsed, in the presidential election, under an avalanche of fraud.
Female leadership impact was constructed using a quasi-experiment involving mayoral elections, and our research used a sample of 8.3 million organizations distributed over 5600 Brazilian municipalities.
Edward J. Markey has constructed an extraordinary legislative record since his first election to the United States Congress in 1976.
Now we are engaged in a great uncivil election testing whether that nation, so constructed, has enough losers to make me president of the United States.
