Much of the debate was on Democratic grounds: Who benefits?
It's always a little ridiculous when Russian leaders criticize the United States on democratic grounds.
"I've never believed it was strong Democratic ground," Mr. Racicot said of economic issues.
Westminster and Whitehall won't suddenly embrace a constitution on democratic grounds.
Rogers's well-trodden narrative of democratic ground planes, metaphorical transparency and the cappuccino-supping passeggiata of public life is certainly present in the exhibition.
I know no critic of Corbyn who isn't intensely queasy about any move against him any time soon, on both political and democratic grounds.
But Rove came away from the 2000 election convinced that Bush would have won by a comfortable margin had it not been for Democratic ground forces.
In 2004 much of the Democratic ground game here consisted of cobbled together teams from disparate groups, such as 527s and unions.
The House of Saud, comprising some 8,000 princes, seems remarkably reluctant to give democratic ground, although women have been promised the vote in the next round of local elections and may, perhaps in 2012, at last be allowed to drive.
Michael Whouley, the storied Democratic ground-game guru, and Curt Anderson, who helped mastermind President George W. Bush's successful mobilization of voters in 2004, say getting voters to the polls will be even more critical this time.
