Three Republican state representatives who had voted with the Democrats to organize the legislature switched sides and voted for Hanna, who triumphed with a bare majority in both the short and long term elections.
Opora's 251 long-term election monitors have been producing regular reports listing dozens, if not hundreds, of election violations.
Labour's long-term election prospects may depend on it and, from the nature of Mr Reid's speech, the leadership knows it.
So if Twitter is able to link an active disinformation campaign with spambots lurking in waiting to carry out the next operation it could successfully disrupt the long term planning of election fiddlers.
I think the marking point, the point that marks the transition from short term to long term, is called elections.
Like pensions, energy and defence, healthcare needs policy which is focused on the long term, not the next election.
Republicans want to win over Latinos in the long term, but for this election, they have to contend simultaneously with pro-immigration-reform Latino voters and other GOP supporters who are less open to reform.
Her long term ability to win elections is still in doubt.
In the long term, the implications of this election are becoming clearer and clearer as all the numbers come in: Mitt Romney won 59percentt of the white vote, which is more than any candidate who has lost ever has before.
Whether the strategy could have ever swayed the results of an election in the long term is debatable (similarly, the supposed success of subliminal advertising is disputed) but it seems likely that other kinds of priming do have some effect on behaviour without you realising it.
