Political campaigns are not often won by the side that concedes how many valid points the opposition has made.
And while boycotting an establishment is a valid form of opposition, I'm much more of a sit-in, Woolworth's Lunch Counter type of person.
But the electoral body said today that the referendum requested by the opposition was valid and should go ahead.
On the first ill-conceived tour of Australia after the second world war, he and the enigmatic Doug Wright alone offered a valid threat to the opposition.
The failure of a massive retail scheme for Galleon's Reach to materialise did not help; neither did the entrenched local opposition – some valid, some nimbyish – that has prevented a river crossing in the area for decades.
"If they do reapply, TransCanada will face the same valid public concerns and fierce opposition as the first time".
"If they do reapply, TransCanada will face the same valid public concerns and fierce opposition as the first time," said Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, a campaigner for the Natural Resources Defence Council in Washington.
Some commentators accepted that humiliating the opposition was a valid objective, while others regarded it as childish and thought Scotland should have won a more convincing victory than the actual 3 2 scoreline.
But though Western diplomats monitoring the recall effort agreed that the opposition had the required valid signatures, the Electoral Council ruled Tuesday that the effort had fallen 600,000 short of the 2.4 million needed.
How often does the argument dismiss or disregard the opposition's concerns or valid arguments?
