All leadership elections disappear into a cognitive poker basement, all smoke and no natural light, where qualities and assumptions become self-evident and barely worth stating, and the heightened atmosphere makes bizarre behaviour seem normal.
Joe Bafumi, Bob Erikson and Chris Wlezien have done great work on midterm elections and found that, on average, a 5pt Democratic lead 300 days before the election can disappear completely in that time.
Ukip insiders say that they have concerns that the Tory vote that has migrated to Ukip during local and European elections could disappear at the general election when the electorate starts to get serious.
"C.H.G.O.'s story is a tutorial on how to break campaign finance law, impact elections, and disappear — the political equivalent of a hit and run," Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, wrote in a new report.
"In the '04 election, the gap –- what they like to call the gender gap –- that gap in the '04 election almost disappeared.
In fact, Zogby has since discovered in a poll of women that the gender gap in this election has disappeared altogether.
The Rusape chairman of a group of Zimbabwean independent election monitors disappeared on Saturday night and his whereabouts are not known.
If marketers are striving to "build and foster a community of advocates," Mr. LeBrun said, they ought not be like "politicians who go online around election time and then disappear after the election".
"All the political parties come here and make big promises, but after the election they just disappear.
Even after Darmody helped make his election fraud charges disappear, Nucky repaid him with two shots to the head, an abrupt end of the line for one of the show's most compelling characters.
