FLOHPA n.— «Setting all else aside, most experts would agree, whoever goes two for three in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida (FLOHPA) wins the election.» —“FLOHPA vs. The Edwards Strategy” by...
porky n.— «Mr Hay, whose own record on rates is that he broke an election promise to freeze rates for three years, said the figures showed Mr Hubbard had told “porkies” and misled the public.» —“Mother Hubbard’s jump in...
blue-sky v.— «At a time when North Americans are romancing the political right, however, the woman who once took Tommy Douglas sailing and grew up in a household where M. J. Coldwell was a frequent visitor is not “blue...
shit sheet n.— «But this was no ordinary anti-Green rant from the party of free enterprise. In election parlance, Morrison’s four-page glossy is known as a “shit sheet.”» —“Coalition rolls out Latham...
outstate n.— «He believes President Bush is the first sitting president to bring his own campaign to Duluth since Dwight Eisenhower. “People up here get tired of the ‘out’ terminology, as in ‘outstate.’ Being courted is always nice...
trapo n.— «In the 1987 legislative elections, the National Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL)—which exposed President Ferdinand Marcos’s attempts to rig the 1986 elections—did not contest the election of many traditional politicians...