Those hopes dimmed on election day, with Republicans retaining clear majorities in both houses.
"Hair" ran at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park in the summer, garnering strong reviews and packed audiences; but the tickets were free, and interest in the show's antiwar-agitator characters may have dimmed with the election of Barack Obama.
The vote showed that the prospect of winning the next election is dim for him," Laylaz told Reuters.
Americans overall have pretty dim views of the election and their candidate choices - HuffPollster: "Trump, who's especially fond of assigning nicknames to his critics and opponents, dubbed Clinton Crooked Hillaryy,' The Democratic National Committee came up with 'Dangerous Donald' last month in attempt to coin a comeback phrase.
Peña Nieto's reluctance to criticize Donald Trump has further dimmed his party's election prospects.
Its prospects grew dimmer after the special election in Massachusetts last week was won by Scott Brown, a Republican who repudiated the federal cap-and-trade proposal in his campaign.
If he cannot muster a first-place finish, the chances that the couple will continue their political dynasty in the 2011 presidential elections will dim badly, political and investment-risk analysts said.
Then, abruptly, the spotlight dimmed.Days before the election, it was revealed that she had improperly accepted an inheritance from her mother when the old lady was getting public assistance in a nursing home (the money should have gone to the state, for her mother's care).
The electoral tribunal's 4-to-2 decision to annul the election also dimmed the political aspirations of the departing Tabasco governor, Roberto Madrazo, who had hoped that a PRI victory in his home state would help him attain the party presidency.
So with each decision she made that the Bush camp liked -- and she made quite a few, including the critical one to reject post-deadline results from hand counts of ballots in the counties where the Al Gore campaign hoped to find a margin for victory -- her chances of being rewarded with a plum patronage job after the election grew dimmer.
