Helping her do battle were two of the city's pre-eminent election lawyers, Henry T. Berger and Laurence D. Laufer, a former general counsel of the Campaign Finance Board who now advises campaigns.
After tapping two of the nation's pre-eminent election lawyers to lead an effort to study the way Americans vote, President Obama on Tuesday announced his intention to appoint eight additional members to a presidential commission designed to improve the electoral process after voters faced long lines and other obstacles in last year's elections.
Shortly after the last presidential election, John Haldane, an eminent Thomist who is a friend of George's and an adviser to the Vatican, sent an open "Letter to America" to a Web site of the Witherspoon Institute, a conservative think tank that George helped found.
The BJP's Mr Modi, still the pre-eminent figure of the coming election scrap, has great strengths: he looks forceful, ambitious and has some clear ideas of what he would do in office (his handicap is his failure to address riots in Gujarat that killed over 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, under his watch, in 2002).
The growing divide between the wealthy and everyone else is one of the pre-eminent issues of the 2016 presidential election.
But the trip gives the leftwing candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, who is aiming for an unlikely upset over frontrunner Hillary Clinton, a chance to shine among Catholic voters, especially white Catholics who are considered the pre-eminent swing voters of any presidential election.
The Michigan Catholic Conference has also issued an election paper calling abortion "the pre-eminent threat to human dignity".
Some very senior Labour figures privately contend that the coalition has made such terrible mistakes over the NHS that it could rival the economy as the pre-eminent issue for the voters at the next election.
Modern American choral music has been much enlivened by the contributions of Charles Ives (An Election composed in 1920), Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, and many other eminent composers.
Led by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford and populated by notables from both major parties (with a few eminent civilians thrown in), the commission endorsed an array of election reforms that will not rock many boats.
Chris Patten, the architect of the unexpected general-election triumph of 1992, was perhaps the most eminent example.
