I restarted my pre-election habit of holding public question-and-answer sessions.
For decades in politics, Republican and Democratic strategists have put their faith in the so-called rule of three, which says that patterns in youth, once established by votes in three consecutive elections, become habit and identity.
Why he would put ballot box in quotes is unknown, but it's of a piece with his efforts to discredit democratic elections, a habit that neatly dovetails with Russian President Vladimir Putin's effort to undermine Western democracies.
Its "Jasmine revolution" in 2011 unseated a corrupt dictator relatively peacefully and ushered in a transition to democratic elections and habits.
At its last party conference before the general election, this old habit re-emerged.
Research continues to prove that civic education and early participation in elections creates a habit of ongoing engagement, which is why it is necessary to target this generation of high school students to bring them into the political process and encourage their involvement at an early age.
Opposition groups say that in a fair vote he would not be re-elected, but they say he has a habit of rigging elections.
No, we shouldn't get into the habit of delegitimizing election results we don't like.
He is so unwilling to shoulder responsibilities that he has barely spoken since the election, reverting to an old habit of slinking into the shadows after a loss.
Social media obviously reinforces this tendency -- which has now, after numerous Internet election cycles, become a civic habit -- to react, rather than to act, to shout and scorn rather than deliberate.
One possible answer is that because little is at stake in these second-order elections only those with an established habit of voting, acquired in previous national elections, can be counted on to vote.
