If gangsters end up getting elected because of their vote-buying power, say some scholars, so be it.
Mr Sarkozy was elected because French voters knew, however reluctantly, that they had to adapt to global capitalism.
But so many of our elected officials, especially in on the House side, get elected because of local issues.
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Brown was elected because he pledged to block Obamacare in the US Senate.
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Liam Fox: No, and I think it's just as ridiculous to say that you should be elected because of one background, as for people to say, you shouldn't be elected because you come from another background.
Before him was a Republican, elected largely because Dan Rostenkowski, his predecessor and one of Washington's most powerful congressmen, had been indicted.
Nevertheless, the rationale for judicial review remains: it is a legitimate check on elected legislatures because they are, by their nature, imperfect representatives of the popular will.
Now, the doubts about its newly elected president, Vladimir Putin, are mounting, both because of the way he was elected in March and because of his conduct since.
If the voter's first choice does not need the ballot, either because he can be elected without it or because he has too few votes to get in with it, the ballot is transferred to the voter's second choice, and so on.
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Greek voters elected socialist politicians because they promised fat pensions, free health care, and lavish early retirement.
But it is particularly tricky for Ed Miliband, who was elected as leader because of their support.
Often it's decided by people who are not elected actually, because they're made up in a different way.
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In other words, he is able to displace a popularly elected official simply because that individual was accused of a crime.
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This is partly because elected local officials shift their efforts from expanding the economy to providing public goods, such as safe water.
Because elected officials, you guys can't hog the mic right now.
And just 16 months ago Kathleen Sebelius, now Barack Obama's health secretary, was the state's Democratic governor, elected in part because her Republican opponent was considered too extreme.
Lord Wakeham, knowing this, has presumably succumbed to the pragmatic argument that Mr Blair would never accept an elected upper house because of the way it would curb his own power.
They were elected in large part because of public opposition to the war in Iraq.
Mr Modi keeps being re-elected in Gujarat mostly because he runs the place efficiently.
Warren was elected to the Senate because of her hard line approach to Wall Street, Roose writes.
Not so much getting elected but getting nominated because of the social positions and social views, which I don't understand completely.
And in the end, because the elected officials who are here are here representing the American people, I think it will get done.
It is important that you keep track of what you have elected to capitalize, because the whole point of the exercise is to have the capitalized expenses in your basis, when you sell the property.
Ros-Lehtinen, the one GOP woman in line to be a committee chairwoman, said she thinks the reason she and her female colleagues have not been in significant elected leadership positions is because they tend to be more vulnerable back home, where they need to keep focused.
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Lord Heseltine noted that local councils had long had the right to switch to elected mayors, but few had done so - not least because councillors rightly concluded that powerful elected mayors drained power from them.
Democrat Joe Donnelly was elected in 2006 in part because of voters' unhappiness over the Iraq war.
The U.S. is not providing direct aid to the Malian military because the democratically elected government was overthrown last March in a coup.
But when I got there, I rolled up my sleeves, because I was elected to help the people who sent me to the Senate.
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Because Mr Brown elected to increase spending faster than capacity could grow to meet it, the opportunities for waste, and even fraud, are great.
The two-hour-long, early evening installation ceremony was a significant one for the church, since a pope is pontiff because he is elected bishop of Rome, and not vice versa.
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