Mr Truman managed to win an election on the basis of his national security credentials.
That may be a plan to win an election, but it's not a plan to create jobs.
So a politician can be a chameleon and change direction to garner enough votes to win an election.
We're up against the idea that it's acceptable to say anything and do anything to win an election.
Ms Powell is not the first Labour MP to win an election in Greater Manchester while expecting a baby.
Why is it so difficult for third party candidates to win an election?
Someone once said that it takes just one vote to win an election, and the rest are for bragging rights.
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For Labour, which would struggle to win an election without its Scottish MPs, it is a matter of almost existential import.
With good reason: in a country with an 85% Hutu majority, a Tutsi-led government would be hard pressed to win an election.
Obama's recent post-election trash talking directed at Congress is "defiance politics" that misunderstands what it means to win an election, Navarrette said.
But thanks to Mr Thaksin, in future no Thai political party can expect to win an election without a popular and well-promoted platform.
Gasp, a candidate doing what is expedient to win an election!
"To try to exploit a tragedy to try to win an election is one of the saddest things I've see in my life, " he said.
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The Liberals have done nothing to alter the perception that they do not deserve to win an election that has merely been delayed, not cancelled.
As he sat down, supporters were getting emails urging them to join a new campaign, not this time to win an election, but to fulfil its promise.
It would take only two New Democracy defections to bring down the government, but opinion polls suggest that Pasok would be unlikely to win an election outright.
And it's not just because we want to win an election -- which we do. (Applause.) We are here because of the values we believe in.
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But it remains probable that with Chavez's party backing him, Maduro has the necessary strength and support to win an election, said Carlos Manuel Indacochea, a professor at George Washington University.
Telling everyone what they want to hear and getting away with it is a great way to win an election but the inherent contradiction in such a policy will emerge soon after.
But there is a huge difference between wagging the dog (inventing an unnecessary war in order to win an election) and wagging the donkey (wringing partisan advantage out of a necessary conflict).
As people on the left began to mutter that Mr Amato was a competent prime minister but an unconvincing candidate to win an election, the mayor let it be known that he is available.
Because they know they can't sell their actual plans -- they don't have plans. (Applause.) Their message is designed to try to win an election, but it's not a plan to create jobs.
As the campaign approached, his brother Quintus a practical and sometimes violent man who would later help Julius Caesar conquer Gaul decided that his older sibling needed to learn a few things about how to win an election.
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The new adviser is expected to try to lure members of the opposition to support the Muslim League and seal Mr Sharif's control over a province in which he would be unlikely to win an election.
Yang Zhimin, Latin America expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, tells Global Times that the Venezuelan opposition is unlikely to win an election within 30 days and says Chavez's death does not signal the end for the Latin American left.
"She's contributed greatly to her own problems because she's had a series of controversies that have built on each other to the point where her negatives today are nearing 50 percent, and it's very hard for anyone to win an election with those kind of negatives, " said Axelrod.
Mr Howard exploited public anxiety about boat arrivals to help win an election in 2001.
But one done in haste, and mainly to help win an election, could yet do more harm than good.
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