And if you ever wonder how candidates can spend that kind of money, just look at your television set, listen to your radio or open the extra junk mail around election time.

假若你纳闷他们怎能花掉这么多的钱，那么在竞选期间打开电视看看吧，听听收音机，或者拆开那些拉圾邮件看一下。

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THE election date had been an open secret for so long that its announcement this week might have come as an anticlimax.

选举的日期成为一个公开的秘密如此之久以致于这星期正式通告可能没那么大的反响。

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But the door to talks is still open, and the most likely outcome appears to be a six-month election timetable.

但是谈判之门依旧开着，而且最有可能的结果是一个六个月选举的计划。

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Critics say this leaves the window open to push the Maoist party, which won 40 percent of the seats in last year's election, out of the picture - paving the way for any number of smaller parties to bid for the prime minister seat.

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Egypt's first pretty open election in decades has not been free of mischief, but nobody disputes its broad outcome.

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But with Congress still favourite to win this vote, the BJP's burst of optimism was a useful reminder of how open the election really is.

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Mexico's ruling party, the PRI , announced that it would hold an open primary election in November to choose its presidential candidate, breaking a long tradition in which incumbent Mexican presidents have chosen their successors.

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