He argued that Islamists like those in the Muslim Brotherhood who embraced elections committed a "mix up" of Western and Islamic systems.
Since Mr. Khashoggi disappeared, it has also become clear that he had close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an international Islamist movement that in recent decades has embraced elections as the best way to bring change to the region — another reason the prince might have felt hostile toward him.
Most progressives believe that President-elect Obama, who sponsored legislation against deceptive voting practices and worked on voting rights cases, will embrace election reform.
However, as much of sub-Saharan Africa embraces elections, they have also set up a death match between competing elites turning elections into the single most destabilizing event in Africa.
Ghani also embraced his election opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, with whom he has agreed to form a government of national unity.
The voters embraced the election initiative in 1998 by two to one but have been frustrated by the refusal of the Legislature -- a club of largely unopposed Democrats -- to finance the law.
Women have also embraced the elections with a first-timer's zeal, and have been more willing than many Kuwaiti men to skip World Cup games to hear candidates' speeches, for example, and to study the candidates' qualifications and platforms.
Newt Gingrich, who slammed Ryan's "radical" budget as a piece of "right-wing social engineering" last year, has already embraced the election-year version of the plan as "courageous".
Whatever your political affiliation, whatever one of hundreds of passionate causes you embrace, this election season will be both virtual and geographic ground zero for making one's voice heard.
I think Labour should embrace European elections just as we should welcome a general election that might get rid of this broken government.
