The board was around two meter square, and a few neat A4-size election posters and notices by Bhutan's Election Commission were pasted on it.
Despite the Independence Party's small size, its primary election for governor matters.
But he said the problems identified were small given the size of the election, with nearly two million voters casting ballots for president, Parliament and local councils.
It derives largely from numbers: the size of the election victory, the poll ratings, the breadth of partisan support in Congress.
Including his most recent contributions to American Crossroads, he has given more than $13 million to outside groups able to accept donations of unlimited size in this election cycle.
Better yet, the ruling party is allowed to do things like vet the others' platforms, choose the size of their election posters and tear them down if it does not like them.
The unexpected size of its election victory in 1997 forced Labour to come up with a rural policy, he argues, if only because it suddenly found itself with MPs from rural constituencies.
These qualitative factors are important because a sample size of 16 elections since World War II is insufficient for persuasive statistical evidence.
(To avoid repeating countries or because of gaps in election sizes, in some instances we've strayed gently from the closest match. Hence Uttar Pradesh's 81m voters are closest in number to Russia, where 72m people participated in the 2012 elections).
These qualitative factors are important because a sample size of 16 elections since World War II is insufficient to provide for persuasive statistical evidence as to which economic indicators (from among dozens or hundreds of credible candidates) are really best for predicting election outcomes in the long-run.
All three have quadrupled in size since the last election.
