In Europe, the state helps pay for campaigning and forces television networks to give time to parties; America prefers to keep elections, mostly, in the private sector.
Despite the painful and needed changes, GM is still unprofitable, and huge challenges remain before it can go public again and pay off the U.S. Treasury, all the while trying to keep election-year politicians at bay.
Facebook has recently undertaken a massive apology ad campaign on TV, bus stops and elsewhere, touting that it understands its responsibility to keep elections and users' data safe.
Mr. Christopher We've tried to keep these election matters out of the courts.
Germany's chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, is under strong popular pressure to keep his election promise to oppose a war in Iraq.
But the Israeli public seems stoical, and though Mr Sharon is patently unable to keep his election promise to restore security, he faces little criticism.
Hunt hailed this as evidence of the government's deep support for renewable energy and the fact that it was always going to keep its election promise.
Hunt and the responsible minister, resources minister Ian Macfarlane, are understood to be determined to keep the election promise to keep the RET, but several MPs are pushing that it be scrapped altogether.
The Australian government has been accused of failing to allow either asylum-seeker boat to arrive in Australia in order to keep its election promise to "stop the boats".
The prime minister, Lionel Jospin, this week seemed to throw doubt on his intention to keep this election pledge when to the horror of his allies on the left he called it "anti-economic".
