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saw the election of barack obama	Witnessed, experienced	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
a carpet-bagger	A candidate for election who has no roots or interest in the constituency he wishes to represent. The original meaning was a Unionist financier or adventurer who exploited the cheap labour in the American South after the Civil War. The carpet bags carried by these adventurers were made of carpet material.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
front runner	The most likely winners in a contest, election, etc.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
che sera sera	Used to express a personal philosophy of fatalism1604, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus:Why then belike we must sin, / And so consequently die. / Aye, we must die an everlasting death. / What doctrine call you this ? Che, sera, sera: / What will be*, shall be; Divinity adieu. / These Metaphysics of Magicians, / And necromantic books, are heavenly.	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
blue state	A state of the United States voting Democratic in a given election, or tending to vote Democratic in general.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
knock up	In the morning as by knocking at the door; rouse; call; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also knocker up.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
put him in to get him out	An election poster catchphrase, and rallying cry, for imprisoned Republicans to be elected to parliament.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
go red	Of states or counties, to be carried by a Republican candidate in a given U.S. election.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
go blue	Of states and counties, to be carried by a Democratic candidate in a given U.S. election.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
voice in the wilderness	A person, publication, or other source of assertions that expresses an opinion, doctrine, or point of view which is ignored or rejected by almost all others; the actual utterance of an unpopular opinion, doctrine, or point of view.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
caucus race	The competitive process in which a political party selects their candidate, esp. presidential; a primary election via caucus.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
comitia magistratibus creandis	meetings for the election of officers.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
drop the writ	To call a federal or provincial election.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
finders keepers	The doctrine that whoever finds something is allowed to keep it	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
habemus papam	Annonce de l’élection d’un nouveau pape.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hell-bent for leather	Cowboy Poetry Expression; Storm-Out, Fast n Furious!, hell-bent fer an Election!	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
I'm not religious	Indicates that the speaker is a not a follower of religious doctrine.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
l'arbre se connaît à ses fruits	Une doctrine se juge par ses conséquences.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
man is the measure of all things	the doctrine that all knowledge is subjective, being derived from observations made by humans, and there can be no objective truth	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
measure the drapes	To make premature or unwarranted preparations for victory, especially election to public office	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
measuring the drapes	Making premature or unwarranted preparations for victory, especially election to public office	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mobilia sequuntur personam	Common law doctrine holding that personal property held by a person is governed by the same law that governs that person, so that if a person who is legally domiciled in one jurisdiction dies with property in a second jurisdiction, that property is legally treated as though it were in the first jurisdiction.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
more Catholic than the Pope	Adhering more stringently to Roman Catholic practices and doctrine than is required by church doctrine.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
one-horse race	An election campaign or other competitive situation in which only one competitor is entered or in which only one competitor has a realistic chance of winning.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
possession is nine-tenths of the law	One who has possession of a thing has some right to it; a popular statement of the doctrine of adverse possession.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
put one's name in the hat	To run in an election or to nominate oneself for consideration in some other selection process; to nominate someone other than oneself for such consideration.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
red state	A state of the United States voting Republican in a given election, or tending to vote Republican in general.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rig out	to expel the holder of an office or other position by means of rigging the election.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stuff the ballot box	To commit fraud in an election by depositing extra or otherwise illegitimate ballots into the container holding voters' ballots, in an attempt to predetermine the outcome.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sweep the board	To get enough votes in an election to gain all the seats.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
swing state	A state which may vote Democratic or Republican, in a given election or generally; a purple state.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
true believer	A strict follower of a religious doctrine.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)

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