With about two-thirds of the 31 million votes cast in Friday's elections counted, analysts for the main reform parties said their candidates had already trounced hard-line candidates in key provincial towns and cities. Results from the capital, Tehran, as well as the large cities of Qum and Meshed, have not been announced.
The fundamentals suggest that Obama will go the way of Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy — incumbents who were trounced in hard times.
The question of which side can exert more influence was sharpened by the results of parliamentary elections in February, when moderates trounced the hard-liners.
But, for whatever reason, he did allow Mr. Rowhani to run in last Friday's election and accepted the results, in which Mr. Rowhani, considered the most moderate of the six candidates, trounced the hard-liners.
Harding and Coolidge soundly trounced Ohio governor James Cox (today Cox Communications) and a neophyte to national politics, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
I am really confused about who, exactly, he was congratulating — congratulations to you, handful of New Hampshirites who voted for me but were soundly trounced and I didn't really work that hard to win your votes, anyway?
This strategy didn't work well for Buck, as his Democratic opponent trounced him on the issue anyway, and it's hard to see how it would work for Ryan, since he was a co-sponsor of the personhood bill in Congress, and he'd presumably know something about it if he co-sponosored it.
The result: A 10-term congressman and founding member of the centrist Blue Dog coalition was trounced by a newcomer, Matt Cartwright, a Scranton lawyer who ran hard against Mr. Holden's moderate voting record.
Mr Kerry cannot win the presidency as a second edition of Michael Dukakis, the famously liberal Massachusetts governor who was trounced by George Bush senior in 1988.Still, turning a Massachusetts liberal into a centrist is hard.
'Ultimately, we need to balance the various elements in a way which works, in a way which creates clear accountability between those who govern and those who are governed, which protects rights and respect for the law.' It is hard work trying to make yourself heard when you have been so comprehensively trounced after so long in office.
The Conservative Party, which pushed hard for the police commissioners, seems increasingly embarrassed by its own creation, and could well be trounced by Labour.In this section Could Asia really go to war over these?
