Election Year

Congress sure does seem to move faster in an election year: they've got a fast-tracked fix for housing relief just about ready.

Skeptics suspected this was just a bit of election-year candy--and that may have been part of the plan.

Again, the anti-free-trade rhetoric doesn't seem to be enough to helpStrickland this election year.

But don't expect to hear that view in Washington, with unemployment still high and politicians gearing up for an election year.

Pre-selection of the U. S. presidential election is the first phase of the election year, usually from the beginning to the end of the year.

Many news organizations conduct "issue polls" to see what topics are of great interest to the public during an election year.

Chief: At least until the mayor puts my head on a pike for this kind of ruckus in an election year.

For a president about to enter what is already likely to be a perilously tight election year, this can't be a comforting thought.

If she votes in favor of the bill, she will look more like a centrist and be in good standing with the voters during the next election year.

In an election year, with a depressed economy and sentiment turning against the Democrats, passing cap-and-trade was sure to be difficult.

At the beginning of this election year, there were strong arguments against putting another Republican in the White House.

In fact, ABC News tried a version of this at least once before in the run up to an election year, partnering with Facebook in 2007.

But in an election year his arrest has descended into a matter of mutual accusations between Bosnian Serbs and Bosniaks.

For decades states have been moving their primaries earlier and earlier in election year in an effort to have more impact on the race.

Mr Obama's earlier fiscal stimulus is also already starting to fade, and election year politics have poisoned the chances of any more.

God bless America, yes. This being election year, you know, they are wonderful people. Fine taxpayers.

It's not lost on anyone, least of all me, that this is an election year.

A nervous election-year American Congress might just move from threats to action, changing the cold war over trade into a hot one.

Meanwhile, a comprehensive climate bill is hopelessly stalled in the Senate, and its prospects of approval in an election year are dim.

Proving the power of the energy issue this election year, both sides busily tried to undermine the other side's energy policy.

Democrats are counting, too, on the traditional election-year pork barrel to help a troubled candidate here and there.

As the nation prepared for a presidential election year, the South renewed its promise to defend slavery -- or leave the Union.

For a risk-averse Beijing, it all makes for a volatile mix in an election year.

In this election year, let us show our fellow Americans that we recognize our responsibilities and are determined to meet them.

How Chinese leaders combat their economic maladies could inflame election-year trade tensions with the United States.

Electoral College vote in an election year in December after the second Wednesday of the first to be held Monday.

For a presidential appointee to raise rates in an election year requires some steel.

In a presidential election year, he is the top pick for the Vice Presidential Nominee for his party.

When he outlined the theory in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in 1988 - a US election year - it made many waves.

Eighteen thirty-six was a presidential election year in the United States.

It is critical that the shift in the perceptions of the American public not create a momentum for withdrawal during this election year.

In particular, we identify an electoral cycle in which the incumbent spends less on culture in an election year.

This is an election year, so it is fitting that the names of these two birds were chosen through the democratic process.

Every member of the House of Representatives and about one-third of the Senate is up for reelection in any given election year.

Many in Egypt see these events as signs of authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak's vulnerability in an election year.

"This is a cynical ploy on the part of the Republican leadership in an election year, " Cantwell said in a statement.

As the land of the free heads into election year his pictures show exactly how free it is.

It is striking that America got acid-rain regulation passed in an election year under a Republican president.

Obama's proposal will run up against the congressional calendar as well as election-year politics.

Withdrawing the stimulus in an election year shows welcome political maturity.

Although the handcuffing case is not being likened to the 2002 episode, it also comes in a presidential election year.

But the lead is less than expected given some Democratic advantages this election year.

Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, was accused of bowing to populist pressure in an election year.

China is fast becoming an election-year issue with anger running high among voters over continued economic weakness and high unemployment.

To a certain extent, there's the idea that he's saying 'I must go back to Europe before a busy election year.

Equally disturbing is the likelihood that the Republicans will join them in this pre-election year.

In the upcoming election year, the temperature can only rise.

The White House is waging an all-out effort to ease election year fears about the economy.

Nothing much will change during the election year, but 2013 offers a chance for real fiscal reform.

But Google is a reminder that everyone has their snapping point, especially in a US election year.

Politics remain dangerously polarised at the start of an election year.

The debate over free trade has intensified in this election year in the United States.

But 2010 is an election year, with hot contests in many manufacturing states. The language, and the trade policy, could change.

President Bush says America's election-year politics will not affect his commitment to keep U. S. troops in Iraq.

Democrats said they only wanted one that would extend the debt limit through the 2012 election year, a Democratic aide said.

Once a perception of the economy's health takes hold in an election year, it can be hard to shake.

It is an election year and the US economy is in peril of falling into recession or worse.

Bush and Snow are not happy of a rising dollar going into an election year.

Such admonitions, however, are obscured or ignored in what is now a key election-year issue.

With these, a marriage can survive and thrive, even in an election year.

Guns at work could be a useful election-year issue for Democrats.

In an election year, politicians will need a scapegoat.

Every election year, much ink is spilled in the business pages this two-fold question: Who will win?

This will be hard in an election year, when the federal government usually splurges.

But the taxpayers aren't the weightiest American financial constituency, even in this election year.

S. mid-term election year, there will be a new U. S. political landscape changes, Obama government how to deal with spill incident?

That limit is adjusted each presidential election year to reflect inflation.

American voters have their own virtues, though, and both Obamas should keep that in mind in this election year.

The issue has become a hot-button issue in a congressional election year.

Also, it's an election year and the sitting minister of finance is working on his budget.

In the US, the world's other huge advanced economic area, most economists expect the country to enter election year in modest recovery.

In this election year, Americans are looking for leadership that can turn spiritual yearnings into practical realities.

But it's a fascinating collection of talking points in this election year.

But industry executives, analysts and some lawmakers warn that in a US election year, there is a danger of over-regulation.

Falling real wages are exhibit A in the election-year debate over middle-class angst.

Medical insurance is a big issue every election year and we hear stories on the news all the time, but remedies never go past talk.

Campaign donations to both Democrats and Republicans from the financial industry will be more than $100 million this election year.

I know it's an election year. And after last week, it's clear that campaign fever has come even earlier than usual.

The extra revenue will go more to repaying debt than on election-year splurges.

Housing activists and scholars said this election-year bill will ease, but not end, the housing crisis.

As the US enters another election year, it is again open season on China.

But the economy is slowing, and an election year looms.

And especially toward an election year, that's all people talk about.

Whatever their basis in fact, this is an election year and the economy is, as ever, the voters' biggest concern.

Sadly, though, this seems unlikely to happen; least of all before an election year.

Opel's bail-out has become an election-year issue in Germany, where Magna has strong backing.

American election year comes every four years.

And many pointed a finger at America's election-year politics.

"I'm not optimistic that will happen, not going into an election year, " said Henes.

I will not play election year politics with the housing crisis.

The challenge will be to maintain that position into the re-election year of 2012.

Washington's twin- obsessions in election year 2010 will be to create jobs and cut the deficit.

Perhaps the most gratifying election-year assignment I ever had was in 1996.

The other thing that may save us in 2008 is that it is an election year, and election money has an expiration date.

Thses primaries take place from January to June in the election year .

Presidents want to goose the economy before an election year.

When one of them is on the table in a particular [election] year, that is the dominant issue.

He won the first contest of this election year on January 3 in Iowa, a state that is around 90 percent white.

And 2010 is an election year in America, which is always good for business.

Worse, it is an election year.

Worse, it is an election year.

Election of Personal Assessment is voluntary and so you are required to make election year-by-year.

Thus there is plenty of scope for politics to ambush the markets in 2011, even though it is not a presidential-election year in America.

Bernanke will be under more pressure than usual because it's an election year.

That is election year politics, plain and simple.

So why does Mr Sarkozy think that 2011, a pre-election year, is the right time to strike?

President Bush's trip, ending with hat in hand in Japan, was typical election - year politicking: Blame someone else for our troubles.

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