The incoming National Security Advisor, Lt. General Michael Flynn, on the day of the U.S. presidential elections, wrote "We need to adjust our foreign policy to recognize Turkey as a priority.
Generally, in representative government, when a party's positions are so unpopular that it can't win elections, it's supposed to adjust those positions.
In the 10 days since Kaine joined the Democratic ticket, he and his wife have been thrown into the national spotlight of a remarkable election year with little time to adjust.
With less than 10 weeks until the election, Trump increasingly has tried to adjust his pitch to appeal more to moderate voters, as polls show he has fallen solidly behind Democratic rival Hillary Clinton nationally and in battleground states.
The midterm elections could be one step to adjust teachers' wages to Americans' views of them.
If Democrats had invested in meaningful community organizing in 2016, they might have detected the crumbling of the "blue wall" (states like Pennsylvania and Michigan, which had voted Democratic in recent elections) sooner, and been able to adjust course.
In Florida, the Legislature manifestly did not grant the authority to adjust deadlines for election returns to organs of the Florida judiciary.
Still, Mr. McCain's decision to reprise such a well-known symbol of his 2000 candidacy was evidence of the concern in Mr. McCain's campaign about the problems he faces in trying to adjust to an election that is not unfolding the way it had hoped.
(City officials elected in 2015 and 2017 would serve a one-time 51/2 -year term to adjust to the new election schedule). But if he stands to gain from it, all the more reason to explain why it is in voters' interests to pass it — or why it is not.
The mayor says the city could figure out a way to adjust the rules, but election experts, citing Supreme Court precedents, say that is doubtful.
With the Democrats in the midst of some fairly bleak times -- and facing an unusually late primary this year, with little time to adjust for the general election -- party leaders were going to exceptional lengths today to avoid the kind of free-form squabbles that have been the entertaining if politically damaging norm for these conventions.
