Sentence examples for electoral nightmare from inspiring English sources

A party despairs if it senses an avoidable electoral nightmare is about to unfold.

RedState.com, the conservative journal, heralded a "massive meltdown in Pennsylvania" early in the day, citing "widespread reports of an electoral nightmare shaping up in Pennsylvania with certain types of electronic voting machines".

It's a bit of an odd choice for Turnbull to come out with straight off the blocks, before an election when he needs quick policy runs on the board, not the risk of becoming bogged down in a Hewson-esque tax-based electoral nightmare.

Now those taxes account for fifteen to twenty percent of government revenues, and shifting them to other sectors of the economy would be an electoral nightmare".

And in 2012, according to 270toWin.com, there were 32 combinations of swing states that could have resulted in an electoral tie -- a nightmare scenario.

The spontaneous event is the nightmare of the electoral battle.

Drama is playing out in Longmont, where campaign laws thought to prevent corruption by limiting expenditures and contributions is instead corrupting free speech, dividing a community, eating up precious courtroom time and turning the electoral process into a bureaucratic nightmare.

Adding two Democratic-leaning senators, five representatives and seven presidential electoral votes would be a political nightmare for the GOP.

Everyone agrees that the nightmare scenarios of the popular vote going one way and the electoral vote going the other would be a sphincter-tightening moment in American politics.

And so, the staid Ottawa political establishment is suddenly faced with the nightmare of a what-the-heck-let's-try-a-fresh-face electoral turnaround.

One nightmare involves Scotland leaving the United Kingdom to rejoin the EU, crippling Labour's electoral prospects (the party depends on Caledonian votes).Others point out that the Labour Party simply lacks campaign-winning fire.