We are lucky in Australia to have our elections run by a professional full-time electoral commission.
In which case, if it persists for more than two weeks, should he see an electoral professional, or just declare victory?
August and October picks have become something of an anachronism, and in that way Palin is a throwback to an era when Vice-Presidents were chosen by party professionals, strictly for electoral reasons.
Most agree that the age of the "mass party" has passed and that its place is being taken by the "electoral-professional" or "catch-all" party.
Unfortunately, Washington's involvement wound down before the kinds of steps that would have deepened the roots of Haitian democracy -- like creating a professional police force and independent electoral institutions -- were completed.
Many are independent agencies founded by former political campaign professionals searching for revenue during electoral off years, deploying their voter outreach skills to help companies win.
In 2002, John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira published "The Emerging Democratic Majority," a prophecy of Democratic political success based on the growing electoral clout of professionals, minorities, young people, and women.
This testimony summarizes both our research into public participation in electoral delimitations, and our professional experience in conducting boundary delimitation.
He helped chart the group's steps into electoral democracy, both in professional associations and as the only real opposition in the Mubarak-dominated Parliament. Mubarak-dominated Parliament
He likes to draw a contrast between the ups and downs of his career as an entrepreneur and the narrow experience of his electoral rivals, who are professional politicians and provincial power-brokers for the most part.
