"The most harmful thing was the stops and starts caused by the elections decisions from Harris's office," said Mr. Newton, the Gore lawyer.
He is also effective in contrasting points made by the majority in their election decision with previous judgments.
Her pre-election decision to shut down seven nuclear-power plants looked panicky rather than principled, and may have made matters worse for the CDU.
The failed vote to choose a Greek president which led to the election decision helped push European markets lower in the immediate aftermath, but most recovered ground.
The principal objection is to the post-election decision by Mr Gove, who is also Lord Chancellor, to implement a further 8.75 per cent cut to legal aid fees, on top of a similar fee reduction enforced last year.
Shorten also defended Labor's pre-election decision to back the Coalition's plan (and bank the $1.3bn savings) to cut the clean energy supplement – a move that effectively cuts the welfare payments of 2.2m welfare recipients.
Unlike the television networks, which depend on their combined exit polls in calling elections, The Times prefers to look at real numbers in addition to exit polls, said Janet Elder, an associate managing editor who is part of The Times's election "decision desk".
The American ambassador to Egypt, Anne W. Patterson, had advised officials in Washington against making a lot of noise publicly until after the election decision, for fear of exacerbating the already tense political brinkmanship under way in Cairo, one senior administration official said.
There was talk of a military coup or other moves aimed at restoring authority to the monarch.Instead, Mr Deuba's fully legal election decision gives him a six-month breathing space as head of an interim government, free of political interference, even though his party has tried to make things difficult by expelling him for three years.
"The governor surprised both supporters and opponents with his re-election decision in 2010, and he's capable of surprising everyone again, a capacity he's played to the hilt this time around," said James Henson, the director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.
