Zaphod decides to visit Humma Kavula, his opponent from the election.

It's not only hope that drives us to him as his opponent claims.

Instead of kicking the ball to win, he aims so that his opponent scores.

After his opponent died, he was re elected in 1349 (17 June) and crowned (25 July) King of the Romans.

His opponent originally derided what has rapidly become the conventional wisdom.

Sensing Zardari s weakness, his main rival, Nawaz Sharif, is said to be plotting a political comeback.

On January 18th, 2016, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geageapublicly endorsed his wartime rival Michel Aoun s candidacy for president.

In contrast, women who were told that their opponent was female performed as would be predicted by past ratings of performance.

Another technique is transference accusing opponents of having motives or using methods that characterize the accuser himself.

A month later, French forces in Côte d Ivoire arrested President Laurent Gbagbo, who had refused to recognize his rival s election victory, putting the country at risk of civil war.

Viktor Yushchenko has been elected with 52 of the popular vote. His opponent received 44 .

His political opponent Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich is violently opposing that move, fueling a bitter constitutional struggle that ultimately will settle Ukraine s future orientation.

Indeed, Sarkozy has an additional incentive, given that he would be scoring a point against the IMF, led by Dominique Strauss Kahn, his likely Socialist opponent in the next presidential election.

If it exceeds 1 of GDP, the excess is subtracted from the budget allowed for the following year, provided that the economy is in an upswing with a shrinking output gap.

He had his skull donated to science so that his brain could be measured, hoping that his brain would be larger than that of his adversary at the time, it was thought brain size was the true measure of intelligence.

Berlusconi and Prodi have ruled out a German style grand coalition an outcome that seems especially unlikely following an election campaign in which both contestants have strongly hinted that their opponent has no legitimate right to govern.

What s striking about Ortega s move is that he is ready to risk so much political capital, not only expelling Lewites from the party but canceling his challenger s permits to hold political rallies and forbidding him to use Sandinista party symbols.

Indeed, Sarkozy has an additional incentive, given that he would be scoring a point against the IMF, led by Dominique Strauss Kahn, his likely Socialist opponent in the next presidential election. So, for once, logic and personal political motivation are pushing in the same direction.

They call it the Bradley effect, first noted during the 1982 governor s race in California, when Tom Bradley, the then African American mayor of Los Angeles, lost the race to his white opponent despite leading in pre election polls throughout the campaign.