It doesn't take a Ph.D. in behavioral economics to understand that consumers typically elect the default choice, because doing otherwise requires effort.
When Gilbert Foliot, the Bishop of Hereford, objected to Becket's candidacy, Hilary took the position that the king desired the election, so the bishops and electors should elect the king's choice.
Just elect the candidates of your choice president and keep electing them.
But in the Senate, it took four attempts to elect the centre-left's choice, Franco Marini.
They have the power to elect the candidates of their choice, the state argues in a brief filed this week.
The difficulty facing the so-called consensus candidates is that their election would represent a victory for the opposition in denying the parliamentary majority the chance to elect the candidate of its choice.
Although there have been some calls for repeal of the amendment, because it disallows voters to democratically elect the president of their choice, it has proved uncontroversial over the years.
We can start assessing the damage to American democracy caused by the Supreme Court's decision to allow corporations, unions and their lobby groups a free hand to deploy their money to elect the candidates of their choice.
The senators in those districts argue that theirs are "coalition districts," where no one ethnic or racial group has the majority, but where minorities have sufficient strength to elect the candidates of their choice.
Instead, they are demanding that their votes be counted and, numbers permitting, that they be allowed to elect the candidate of their choice, from among the few whom Khamenei's Guardian Council had preapproved to run for office.
Otherwise, "they would be hammered from the other side, saying you are discriminating against African American voters because you're not giving the voters a sufficient opportunity to elect the candidate of their choice," he said.
