Welcome to another mind-bending episode of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! I hope that everyone got out on Tuesday and exercised their voting privilege. The elections were definitely worth following, both at the national and local level, with many races being too close to call until the very end. In honor of our great democratic process, here is one last political term for 2008:
Faithless elector: (noun) a member of the electoral college who votes for a candidate other than that pledged. -- "Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang", Grant Barrett, Ed., Oxford University Press, 2004.
Example: In a close-run election such as this, there is always the concern that faithless electors may exert undue influence and swing the vote for one candidate or the other.
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