It was one of the dismal aspects of the general election that green issues barely featured.
Those documents, comparable to certificates of election that are issued to advise Congress of the election of its members, must be submitted by Dec. 18, the date set by federal law for the electors to meet.
"As voters are increasingly not finding economic differences between the parties – they are increasingly not believing parties can make a difference to the household finances or to the country's finances in this recent election – that social issues will increasingly play a role in the next few Australian elections," Sheppard said.
But the idea got little play in an election that largely ignored the issue of climate change.
Since his re-election, that issue has faded, and the debate has shifted to the talking points.
Voto Latino, formed in 2004, says it registered more than 100,000 new voters since last November and expects a "record turnout" of Latino voters in a historic presidential election that's fraught with issues of ethnicity and immigration.
And that will end the litigation that currently exists in the state of Florida, which were the opinions of the secretary of state's Division of Elections that were issued and also the state of the law as it existed at that point in time.
The monarch refused to co-operate and voters punished the party in a general election that was called over the issue.
One of the most striking characteristics about the political climate in the months since Mr. Obama's re-election is that on issue after issue, it is no longer entirely clear what it means to be a Republican.
Mr. Zelaya has also agreed not to try to change the constitution so he can run for re-election — the issue that prompted the coup.
They might win the mid-term elections on that issue, but the Republicans' instransigence has allowed the White House to abandon bipartisanship altogether.
