Election in sentence

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And in the general election, it's the citizens who get to vote, but in the Lester election, it's the Lesters who get to vote.

In order to run in the general election, you must do extremely well in the Lester election.

What we can say, number one, as the Supreme Court said in Citizens United, that people have the ultimate influence over elected officials, because, after all, there is a general election, but only after the Lesters have had their way with the candidates who wish to run in the general election.

The United States also looks like this, also has two elections, one we called the general election, the second we should call the money election.

In the general election, it's the citizens who get to vote, if you're over 18, in some states if you have an ID.

In the money election, it's the funders who get to vote, the funders who get to vote, and just like in Lesterland, the trick is, to run in the general election, you must do extremely well in the money election.

We have a general election, but only after the funders have had their way with the candidates who wish to run in that general election.

The United States is worse than Lesterland, worse than Lesterland because you can imagine in Lesterland if we Lesters got a letter from the government that said, "Hey, you get to pick who gets to run in the general election," we would think maybe of a kind of aristocracy of Lesters.

It's a pathological, democracy-destroying corruption, because in any system where the members are dependent upon the tiniest fraction of us for their election, that means the tiniest number of us, the tiniest, tiniest number of us, can block reform.

According to a National Geographic survey I just saw, somewhere along the lines of 80 percent of the people who vote in a U.S. presidential election about issues like foreign policy cannot find Iraq or Afghanistan on a map.

As you can see, these works are about family planning, election in accordance with the law and propaganda of the institution of the People's Congress.

There are crisis maps, election maps, corruption maps, and even environmental monitoring crowd maps.

Now, Westerners always assume that multi-party election with universal suffrage is the only source of political legitimacy.

I was asked once, "The Party wasn't voted in by election.

Governments get elected, and then they fall below 50 percent approval in a few months and stay there and get worse until the next election.

So if election is the panacea for corruption, how come these countries can't fix it?

Things like Invisible Obama or the famous "binders full of women" that came up during the 2012 election cycle, or even the fan fiction universe of "West Wing" Twitter in which you have all of these accounts for every single one of the characters in "The West Wing," including the bird that taps at Josh Lyman's window in one single episode.

So during the Chicago mayoral election there was a parody account.

It's just after a special mayoral election, and word has gotten out that there is going to be this citywide planning process, which brings a lot of anxiety and fears among Detroiters.

Now I know there are people out there who will say that the election of Barack Obama meant that it was the end of racial discrimination for all eternity, right?

Gay marriage was on the ballot in the form of Proposition 8, and as the election returns started to come in, it became clear that the right for same sex couples to marry, which had recently been granted by the California courts, was going to be taken away.

There were even reports of racist epithets being thrown at some of the participants of the gay rights rallies that took place after the election.

But then something else happened after that election in 2008.

And my favorite example of this is a question that came from the audience in a Republican debate prior to the last election.

There was a fascinating study prior to the 2008 election where social psychologists looked at the extent to which the candidates were associated with America, as in an unconscious association with the American flag.

Well now, recently, the Machine has started to get involved in actual city politics, and they've engineered the election of a former Machine member, a young, pro-business recent graduate to the Tuscaloosa city school board.

In 2008, Barack Obama was running for president for the very first time, and we surveyed hundreds of Americans one month before the election.

Of these people, 75 percent voted for Obama in the actual election.

One morning, a month before the election, Mary's village was called to another intimidation meeting.

Mary and her friends forced the ruling political party not to use violence during the election, and saved hundreds of lives.

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