Democratic elections are scientific experiments: every couple of years you carefully alter the variables with an election and observe the results. If you want different results, change the variables.

每隔几年，你就会在某个选举中谨慎地改变一些变量，然后观察结果。

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The New York Times publishes a blog post that includes the results of an election poll arranged in descending order by percentage.

FORBES: What It Takes To Find, Scrape And Sell Big Data

At each critical juncture of his career, he has been elevated by the results of an election in which he exceeded their expectations.

NPR: Bush Banks on Elections at Home, Abroad

As the nearby results of an election exit-poll question show, Americans who voted in 2012 are more skeptical of government than they were in 2008 or 2004.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Obama at the Pinnacle