Well yes … "This snap election caught the opposition with its pants down".
The result of the 2016 Presidential election caught many Americans off guard, and academics were no exception.
But Mr. Daley's Sept. 7 announcement that he will not run for re-election caught the city by surprise and set off discussions throughout Chicago's Balkanized neighborhoods about who and what should come next.
Alternatively, they are there to demonstrate elemental connections and fixities, like the agricultural worker of "Fielder" ("...few of us will touch the landscape in that way"), or the protagonist of "Election", caught in a land "voting for change", yet able to "figure the landscape / that is implacably your own".
Was there a deal struck or has the reaction from the Iranians over the election caught the regime off guard and scared them enough of what could ensue that they are giving the revolutionaries against Ahmadinejad their days to vent?
Not surprisingly, the idea of boycotting the elections has caught on.
In 2010, after taking a self-described "shellacking" in the midterm elections, Obama caught an elbow in the mouth while playing ball at Fort McNair.
Because it did not match his more scribbled signature when he originally registered to vote, the local elections division caught this discrepancy and sent him a letter asking for an explanation.
During last year's midterm elections, Republicans caught up with Democrats in using technology and social networks, and now many Republicans elected to the House and Senate are using these tools more than Democrats, according to several political and technology experts.
This, in short, is the result of December's presidential election in Belarus, in which Alyaksandr Lukashenka, a Soviet thug, declared himself the winner with an improbable 80% of the poll and returned to govern for a fourth time.European leaders, who had promised Mr Lukashenka cash as a reward for decent elections, seemed caught by surprise.
