(Mr. Maliki seemed to lose enthusiasm for election challenges after he forged this alliance).
They managed to exchange courtesies, but not to make eye contact.Nevertheless, optimists hope that the relative peace of the two-year interregnum, the chastening experience of detention and the enthusiasm the election itself generated might make it hard for the parties to return to their bad old winner-take-all ways.
The variables chosen to classify respondents were 1) respondents' enthusiasm about the election, 2) whether respondents think the election would make a difference to them, 3) respondents' opinions (favorable or unfavorable) of each of the two major candidates, and 4) how certain respondents were to vote for the candidate of their choice.
The contrast is critical, Democratic campaign strategists say, to their hopes of energizing core partisans at a time when polls show vastly greater Republican enthusiasm about the election.
This virtual edge translated into an enormous real-world advantage — in dollars raised, enthusiasm harnessed and Election Day boots on the ground.
But the mayoral primary is drawing far less enthusiasm than the election eight years ago, when Mr. Villaraigosa rode a wave of enthusiasm and became the city's first Latino mayor in more than a century.
Doris Temkin, New York While I'd like to share Thomas Friedman's enthusiasm over the election in Lebanon, I find myself reserving judgment.
C1 Stocks Abroad Are Mixed Stocks in Mexico continued to rally as investors showed enthusiasm for the election of the opposition presidential candidate, Vicente Fox Quesada.
Even inside the building, the din of honking horns coming from the street was so loud that I asked one doctor if something unusual was going on — election enthusiasm, maybe?
It's President Obama, in a desperate attempt to erase the midterm election enthusiasm gap.
