In 2010 mid-term elections, a cast of ultra-conservative Republicans won election, powering the GOP takeover of the House.
Senior members of Myanmar's ruling junta have been purged in a pre-election power struggle that saw security forces occupy its offices.
We're into day five of the post-election power vacuum and, as Patrick Wintour reports in the Guardian today, the Lib Dems are saying today is "crunch time".
The conversation ranges across her upbringing, her ambivalent relationship with the Labour party, the state of the Middle East, and her current focus on Respect's prospects in Bradford, where their candidates are standing for 12 council seats and aiming to be post-election "power brokers" whose support will be needed to keep Labour – who are currently a minority administration – in office.
North Carolina's Republicans might regret their extraordinary post-election power grab.
"Look at why the baddies win these elections," Power says.
There has been a long-running debate amongst constitutional engineers between those who favour the proportional representation of parties (usually via PR-Closed List systems) and post-election power-sharing (Lijphart) and those who favour attempting to induce pre-election inter-ethnic 'vote-pooling' (Horowitz) as a more effective and stable method of governing divided societies.
Seaga's J.L.P. lost the 1989 general election, and power shifted to the P.N.P.
Why not give the president upon election the power to appoint an additional justice, with Senate consent?
