Yes, we could have had an election on competence and I hope people will have understood that we have acted confidently.
On one last election security competence question, respondents again weighed in with the right answer.
He continues to run for re-election on competence: Got bin Laden, stopped the slide, saved the automobile industry, moved America toward universal health care, set up a consumer protection agency, gave young immigrants without papers a legal pathway to stay.
Donald Tusk's Civic Platform (PO) won the 2007 election by promising competence and stability in place of the unpredictable government of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, then and now leader of the Law and Justice (PiS) party.
"We must create a legitimacy of its own for European politics, with European parties, European elections and full competence for a European Parliament to control a European executive," said Mr. Leinen.
(It is unfortunate that Mr Kerry's old boss in Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis, is forever associated with the idea that an election can be about competence rather than ideology).
"There is a clear choice at this election: sticking with the competence and stability of David Cameron and the Conservatives' long-term economic plan that's securing a better future for Britain - the deficit has been halved, there are 1.85 million more people with the security of a regular wage and the economy is recovering from Labour's Great Recession.
Relentlessly emphasising their economic record and framing the election choice as Tory competence vs. Labour chaos might be about as exciting as finding out who's going to sit in for Dianne Abbot on This Week next time she's off, but it presents the Tories with their best hope of winning a majority.
Relentlessly emphasizing their economic record and framing the election choice as Tory competence vs. Labour chaos might be about as exciting as finding out who's going to sit in for Dianne Abbot on This Week next time she's off, but it presents the Tories with their best hope of winning a majority.
Osborne and David Cameron say the election will be about economic competence.
The study's lead author, University of Pennsylvania marketing professor Scott Armstrong, says the students' ratings map closely onto the results of the Super Tuesday primary vote, suggesting that facial competence may predict election results better than opinion polls.
