Even Paddy Ashdown, leader of the Lib Dems, ever-closer ally, and potential beneficiary of electoral reform, was moved in September to ask Mr Blair to come clean.
"The opposition parties have jumped on this bandwagon because they would be direct beneficiaries of electoral reform," said Ibrahim Suffian, director of the Merdeka Center, an independent polling firm in Kuala Lumpur.
On the other hand, various studies on Mexico show that CCT assistance does promote greater electoral turnout among its beneficiaries.
For better or worse, mining magnate Clive Palmer is the most conspicuous beneficiary of their electoral wisdom.
In each case, the intelligence officer reminded me, the beneficiary of those electoral victories is allied with and, to some degree, dependent upon Iran.
Now, after months of railing against what he called a "rigged" election, he has become the unlikely beneficiary of an electoral system that enables a candidate to win the race without winning over the most voters.
Politicians who are the beneficiaries of a particular electoral system naturally wrap themselves in the mantle of democracy and need to be reminded occasionally that this mantle can come in different styles, all of them with patches.
Scioli, the candidate for the Peronist Justicialist party (as head of an electoral alliance called Front for Victory), is poised to be the primary beneficiary.
And it calls for electoral and political changes, but it must depend on the beneficiaries of the old, unreformed system to make them law.
I utilize this particular survey because it allows us to distinguish individuals' electoral participation patterns and statuses as remittance recipients and CCT beneficiaries.
