Sentence examples for made general elections from inspiring English sources

Devolution has made general elections more confusing.

The causes of our nation's political polarization crisis are well known: Lightly-participated, closed primaries pushing candidates to the far left or right; self-serving redistricting schemes making general elections uncompetitive; and a hyper-ideological blogosphere and conflict-indulgent media fanning the partisan flames.

Former head of the British army General Sir Peter Wall called for the major parties to make general election manifesto commitments on defence spending.

His comments come after Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, backed calls for the parties to make general election promises to stop the population hitting 70 million.

He said parliament must deal with the "unfinished business" of press regulation and called on Labour, and the other parties, to "accept the John Major challenge" – to make general election manifesto commitments to reform of the press.

Thus, seats grow safer only for the party: gerrymandering makes general-election challenges less likely.

The status quo makes general-election campaigning (and voting) pointless in all but a dozen or so battleground states.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said no final decisions have been made on general election plans and that such decisions would be premature with Obama yet to clinch the nomination.

He said the result would make the general election "impossible to call" and "change British politics".

Put together, all that makes the general election of 2010 inconveniently unanalogous to any other.So, politicians and pundits: you are on your own.

This year, unlike in 2004, the two parties held their conventions in consecutive weeks toward the end of the summer, making the general election that much more concentrated for both of them.