America's new president will be elected against the backdrop of a shrinking economy and on taking office will face months of economic malaise.
But had Mitt Romney been elected against the backdrop of charges of minority voter suppression, the argument for removing one of the few protections against discrimination in voting would have been a nonstarter.
A Court that has nine judges who owe their careers to one party and who have been elected for 12-year terms can make it difficult for any non-Fidesz government to govern, even if a new government could be elected against the background of an ever-changing landscape of new electoral barriers that the opposition has to hurdle.
He would be elected against anyone by a landslide.
Even if he turns out to be an average president, Obama will be remembered worldwide hundreds of years from now as a man who changed the way the world looked and thought, simply by being elected against a set of seemingly insurmountable odds that had statistically and historically been stacked against him.
(In retrospect, Kathleen Brown, a very promising but unseasoned figure, should have waited until 1998, when she would almost certainly have been elected against far right Attorney General Dan Lungren. She would have gained needed experience, developed a strong team of her own, and avoided running against an incumbent governor, which is almost never a good idea).
Months later, when Peña Nieto was elected, protests against him were occurring nationwide.
Walker, a Tea Party supporter, was elected in 2010 against Democrat Tom Barrett, with 52% of the vote.
has voted for nearly every job killing trade deal that has come before her since she was elected, while voting against expanding the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, the federal lifeline for workers who have lost their jobs to global competition.
