Schleswig-Holstein had to undergo early elections because its grand coalition had failed in July.
But during the subsequent two weeks, Mr. Barak said, he came to believe that many members of Parliament did not really want to undergo new elections.
Since 1990, the government has required that members of artistic ensembles no longer be treated as permanent employees but undergo re-election every two years.
But before Mr. Bush had departed Maine, the Kerry campaign was already turning out comparisons of Mr. Bush's environmental record with Mr. Kerry's voting record in the Senate, and arguing that Mr. Bush was undergoing an election-year conversion to appear proactive on environmental issues.
Mr. Lotfy said he hoped that Egyptian Islamists would undergo a similar, election-driven evolution, though activists themselves cautioned against drawing too close a comparison.
Political parties that have undergone a traumatic election defeat invariably require at least two elections to recover, he points out.
What can surely be predicted is that in today's election Mexico will undergo either a larger tragedy or a smaller tragedy.
It is time for the PLO and the PNC to undergo overdue reform and finally hold elections.
Congo, now undergoing a shoddy election, still looks barely governable and hideously corrupt.
Then again, after the tumult she underwent in 2008 — election, Clinton, Palin, newborn, transition — Ms. Poehler said she could do with a 2009 that was more stable.
