Given the BJP success, Mr Modi can go ahead and pick a candidate of his choice.The third implication of the elections concerns the political long term.
Through a series of simple survey experiments conducted from 2000-2012, hexploreses how political power, personal connections, elections, concerns for reputation, the law and social norms influence property rights disputes from hostile corporate takeovers to debt collection to renationalization.
Invoking a conspiracy that Turkey faces existential threats to its existence and prosperity by foreign-backed enemies, he claimed that the elections concerned the country's national security more than its municipal governance.
In the latest New York Times-CBS News poll, only 4 percent of Americans picked foreign policy as their top election concern.
Two years after 9/11 and one year before the presidential election, concern about terrorism continues to dominate American politics.
In several polls leading up to the election, concern about the federal debt ran well behind jobs, health care, education and terrorism (all expensive propositions by the way).
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An added election concern is a shortage of female security officers, which could discourage women from voting.
Sixty-seven percent of the 23,000 members surveyed by AARP said the future of Social Security is their top election concern.
