Now they have elected more than 40,000 people.
If Britons did not trust the Labour Party to run their country for the next five years without having to compromise with other parties, surely they would have elected more Conservatives or Liberal Democrats, resulting in a minority Labour government?
But since 1945 South Dakotans have elected more Democratic senators than Republican ones.Mr Johnson hopes the voters will remember their liking for pork-barrel spending (a universal preference, but understandable in a poor state).
Probably not the GOP voters of Massachusetts, who have elected more Republicans statewide in recent years, including the current governor, Charlie Baker, and former senator Scott Brown, a Tea Party candidate who has endorsed Trump.
And while states with independent expenditure bans may have elected more Democrats before 2010 than did states without such bans, this does not necessarily have anything to do with how the states regulated election finance.
States that were forced to lift their bans on independent expenditures may have elected more Republicans in 2010, but this surge could have been caused by a reaction to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the recession or any other issue on voters' minds at the time.
The Green Party, he said, seems more stable because it has elected members to more than 70 local offices and built significant organizations in major states like California and New York.
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It has more black elected officials than any other state in the nation and has elected a black member of Congress, Mike Espy.
To hear Republicans on the campaign trail, the United States could not have elected a more left-wing president than Barack Obama, one more hostile to business or more eager to expand government power.
