The Socialist government has recognized the electoral defeat but they don't see it as legitimate, they don't see any reason to change, they don't see any problems with their policies, there's been no sense of reflection or change or collaboration or recognizing the opposition so far.
Mr. Haass said Republican leaders are beginning to recognize the electoral power appeal among some voters to Mr. Paul's foreign policy views.
"It's difficult not to recognize an electoral process in a democratic country," Lobo said at a news conference with foreign reporters.
"We do not recognize this electoral process as valid," Falcón told local media.
Since the mid-19th century, there have been calls to recognize the electoral significance of the blank vote in France.
This is a move that reverberates throughout the western hemisphere given recent U.S. activity in Bolivia, Honduras, and most recently the U.S.'s refusal to recognize the electoral victory of socialist president Nicolas Maduro victory in Venezuela.
White House aides in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations, as well as members of Congress, consistently recognized and followed this electoral calculus.
Over and over again the DNC has ignored protest movements while the Republicans, with the Kochs and the Mercers, recognized right away the electoral potential of the "Tea Party" and spent millions of dollars to absorb it into the GOP ranks.
Gerrymandering takes its name from the governor of Massachusetts Elbridge Gerry (1744 1814), who recognized the possibility of influencing electoral outcomes by manipulating the boundaries of electoral districts (critics charged that one of the districts he designed resembled a salamander).
Zapatero said that, nonetheless, he had a "certain consideration" for Bush, because "I recognize that my electoral success has been influenced by his governing style".
The resulting alliance of organized labor and Wall Street proved extraordinarily effective for the Democrats as a matter of national politics (for a time, anyway), and it is critical to recognize that this electoral strategy has profoundly affected corporate governance.
