By virtually every electoral measure — including age, sex, race, religion, income and region — Mr. McCain lost ground won by George W. Bush four years ago.
Like the United States, Romania has an election scheduled for November, and since the Romanian diaspora is allowed to cast ballots, focusing on their cultural desires at the expense of the international public and younger, globalized Romanian expatriates "is transparently an electoral measure, to cajole their votes," he said.
The Tories agreed to virtually all the Lib Dems' demands: fixed-term parliaments, scrapping ID cards, a referendum on electoral reform, measures to tackle climate change.
The Council of Europe this week noted with dismay, for example, the failure to introduce promised electoral reform measures, or to allow the opposition unrestricted access to CCTV footage of polling stations.It is hard to overstate Georgia's importance for the West.
"As part of a national engagement process, we will ensure that electoral reform measures, such as ranked ballot, proportional representation, mandatory voting, and online voting, are fully and fairly studied and considered.
While there was little suspense in the electoral contests, ballot measures drew strong interest.
As well as a new electoral law and measures to untangle the conflicting web of powers between different levels of the administration, he promised to overhaul parliament to remove the Senate's power to vote no confidence in the government.
With Mugabe still firmly in control of the military, whose chiefs have vowed never to serve Tsvangirai, the MDC is calling for reforms to electoral procedures and measures to ensure the security sector will not sway the election before voting goes ahead.
Politicos throughout America are busy digesting the lessons of Donald Trump's electoral success, and measured language did not win electoral votes.
("Performance" refers to measures of electoral performance, rather than of governance).
