Mr. Cardona was among 6,500 Colombian New Yorkers who voted in this new-style election.
It's not an American-style election, for sure – more a selection, with hardly a detail left to chance.
"Blood, frogs, lice, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, death of the firstborn, and an American-style election campaign".
For decades, the selection process for corporate boards of directors has had more in common with a Soviet-style system than with an American-style election.
Putin's speech at a US-style election rally in Moscow last week, in which he denounced Russia's opposition as "jackals", got 16 minutes on the main evening news.
And the compressed calendar could resemble a European-style election: a compact but intense primary season where many voters pay attention.
After leading a highly personalised, presidential-style election campaign in which he promised "good times" and decisive, strong leadership, he is in no position to grumble that public expectations are high.At times he will be frustrated.
Democratic Party officials in Michigan have been considering holding a caucus-style election, and a spokeswoman for Ms. Granholm said she was open to the idea as long as no public money was used.
He continued: "Canadians do not want an expensive American-style election campaign that drags on for months and months, and there is nothing more democratic than calling an election.
First, the governor tried to keep Mr. McCain off the ballot, and he and Mr. Bush abandoned that plan only when New York's Communist-style election became a national joke.
