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Answer: Driving the French out of East Texas.
An election is a process, i.e. an organized event in which people go out and elect a person for a political office or other position by voting. For example, we have the presidential election, typically occurring once every four years, since the president has a 4 year term. An example would be the 2016 US election, an election where Donald Trump was named the 45th president of the US.
Factor 1: Who decides to run for office and what advantages candidates have over one another.
Factor 2: Incumbency. Usually the incumbent (the person already serving in the office) has a large advantage over challengers, unless negative events have the voters wanting to get rid of incumbents.
Factor 3: The way congressional districts are drawn. There have been court cases recently about "gerrymandering" -- attempts by a party in power to draw district boundaries in ways that will serve to perpetuate that party's power.
<em>A corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country, Monroe Doctrine had sought to prevent European intervention, the </em><u> Roosevelt Corollary was used to justify US intervention throughout the hemisphere</u>. In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt <u>renounced interventionism and established his Good Neighbor policy for the Western Hemisphere.</u>