For Trump, family is foremost; general election finances are still remarkably lacking; and that final group remains infinitesimal, given how big the Washington establishment actually is.
First and foremost, these elections were about internal affairs, the middle class, state and synagogue, the draft, with a silent consensus that the occupied territories do not matter that much.
Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, and one of the nation's foremost experts on election law, has published a preview of a new book with a sobering reminder for those of us who oppose the growing body of laws requiring identification in order to vote.
The Brexit-supporting MP said the official should "mind his own bloody business", adding: "How dare an unelected apparatchik comment on an election first and foremost".
One of the firmest conclusions of academic research into the behavior of Congress is that what motivates members first and foremost is winning elections.
With the year's elections foremost on their minds, Republicans and Democrats return to Capitol Hill on Monday ready to announce a set of crowd-pleasing initiatives, few of which Congress is likely to pass.
14 Congress Aims to Please With the year's elections foremost on their minds, Republicans and Democrats return to Capitol Hill tomorrow ready to announce a set of crowd-pleasing initiatives, few of which Congress is likely to pass.
Charles Cook, one of the foremost analysts of U.S. election trends, says that basic public opinion about the election has been so stable now for so many months "that the makeup of the electorate is one of the few critical questions".
Mr Halevy is among a string of former intelligence chiefs to come out against Mr Netanyahu during the election campaign, foremost among them Meir Dagan, Mossad chief under Ariel Sharon, who was the keynote speaker at an opposition rally.
"The result of Germany's election is, first and foremost, a big vote of confidence in Merkel and her handling of the eurozone crisis," said Nicholas Spiro, who runs his own research firm, Spiro Strategy.
