"The more we can involve the broader membership in conversations about how we set campaign priorities, electoral priorities, achievement priorities, the more secure and strong the party will be.
On the other hand, the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters have little to show for their millions spent on electoral politics, except the worthy achievement of slowing the rate at which conditions worsen.
Its main achievement is to skew the electoral map even further in favour of the Conservatives.
Perez, a career civil rights prosecutor, has a long list of progressive achievements, though little experience in electoral politics.
Unlike more quietly effective African-American leaders of his era – a Bayard Rustin or Philip Randolph, let alone a Martin Luther King – he pioneered no legislative or electoral victories, no mass movement, no obvious concrete achievements.
I asked Fadwa if she thought that the twin successes of the Muslim rejectionists — Hamas's electoral victory in January, and Hezbollah's military achievements against Israel — have made it more difficult for advocates of compromise with Israel to be heard.
The three parties in the "grand coalition"—the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), plus the Social Democratic Party (SPD would spend much of 2009 talking up their economic achievements while probing one another for electoral weakness.
The founders valued English electoral democracy as one of humanity's greatest achievements, but they were acutely aware that Parliament was as corrupt and short sighted as the worst of kings.
Since his death, Paraná has been widely praised by historians and others for his political achievements, although the detrimental consequences of the electoral reform in his Conciliation cabinet were generally ignored by historians until recently.
Our current system guards against a powerful third party, and the main achievement of the Lib Dems has been to remove electoral reform from the political agenda.
