Not exact matches
There were of course
electoral, political and policy
matters to be taken
into account.
And as a
matter of fact, some of the battle men Buhari came
into the warfront with may actually be more corrupt that those his
electoral victory edged out of power.
Given how the First Past The Post
electoral system works, concentrated support can translate
into huge gains in seats (the PCs came third in the popular vote — in fact, they almost came second — but a distant fifth by seat count, which is all that
matters).
«It was just a
matter of time before someone sought to tap
into the rich
electoral potential inside of a group of people as sizeable as the white working class,» says Justin Gest, a political scientist at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.