After a raucous decade marked by incessant elections and an unprecedented recall that turned a Hollywood action hero into governor, California has settled into a period of rare political quietude.
The candidate wins the election despite his incessant, embarrassing mishaps.
In May 1894, Bryan announced he would not seek re-election to the House of Representatives, feeling the incessant need to raise money to campaign in a marginal district was inhibiting his political career.
CNN national political reporter Peter Hamby wrote in a 2012 election post-mortem for the Shorenstein Center that incessant tweeting made candidates more reluctant to engage with the press.
2. Political Matchmaking: Sometimes the incessant mudslinging and obsessive poll watching hide the fact that the election should really be about the issues that affect our lives and the world we live in.
Of the two, Hillary is by far in the best shape to end up in the general election and win the White House, despite her own problems, incessant attacks, and the hyper-partisan nature of the times reducing her once towering seeming popularity.
And, judging by his conduct since the election, there is also a real possibility that Trump's incessant lashing out on social media could embroil the United States in a succession of international incidents, some of which could be serious.
While scaremongers warn of socialism, the real danger to our democracy is that we are becoming a plutocracy in which moneyed interests buy the votes of legislators for whom the goal of re-election is paramount and the need to raise money is incessant.
A direct popular election, they contend, would depersonalize the campaign, turning into nothing more than incessant money-grabbing and television advertising.
It was the 742nd day of Bakkila's incessant daily tweeting, meant to appear like that of a spambot oblivious to a presidential election, the VMAs or sleep – a human mimicking a machine mimicking a human – and it was to be his last.
But for us to get to the core of what we have in common via our shared humanity requires deep listening instead of the incessant evangelical chatter that I encountered not only throughout my trip but during this 2012 US presidential election cycle as well.
