Others
- bread and circuses: satisfaction of shallow or immediate desires of the populace at the expense of good policy; also, the erosion of civic duty and the public life in a populace.
- Government in the sunshine: a government which keeps all its records and documents open and easily accessible by the public.
- lame duck: a politician who has lost an election, or who is serving his last term in an office where the law limits the number of times he may succeed himself, and is simply waiting for his term to expire.
- melting pot: a society in which all outsiders assimilate to one social norm.
- salad bowl: a society in which cultural groups retain their unique attributes (opposite of melting pot theory).
- Spin (public relations), a heavily biased portrayal of an event or situation.
- Turkeys voting for Christmas
- witch-hunt: a hysterical pursuit of political enemies
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