It made me wonder whether, in covering the campaign for the by-election in Mid Ulster due one week later, a reporter could get away with a piece to camera explaining that "the stakes could hardly be any lower".
Tony Blair, meanwhile, is clearly eager to neutralise the row for the election campaign, also fearing it could prove a vote winner for the Tories.
"The Commission is planning a campaign for the next general election which will include a range of activity targeting young people, " Mr Streeter said.
Many white farmers do, indeed, support the MDC and some helped bankroll its campaign for the presidential election in March.
Council leaders have blamed the severe winter and tasks linked to the general election campaign for failing to meet a target to reduce CO2 emissions.
During the campaign for Scotland's election last May, the two parties inadvertently painted themselves into opposite corners and could find no compromise when they agreed later to form their coalition.
Obama would be the first major presidential candidate to drop out of the modern campaign financing system for the general election since its creation in 1976 in the post-Watergate era.
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For Obama, according to the UK's Independent, the challenge in office will be to strike a balance between the "poetry" of his campaign for election and the tough "prose" of government.
Mr Latham gave a hint of the populist approach he plans for the election campaign by making a bus tour of rural constituencies in New South Wales during the first week of February and speaking to packed public meetings.
Fellow recipient Sue Nye, who will join the Lords for the Labour Party, found herself in the spotlight during the election campaign when Mr Brown appeared to blame her for his encounter with Gillian Duffy - the Rochdale pensioner he was recorded privately calling "bigoted".
In the end, what will matter most for the election campaign is money.
Among them is Rep. John Barrow, D-Georgia, who is facing perhaps the toughest re-election campaign out of the 435 House seats up for election come November.
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By contrast, the campaign for the second round of the presidential election, on September 20th, lasted only three days.
All that would happen now, muttered the worldly-wise, was that the election campaign would last for eight miserable weeks instead of four.
Saturday's vote allowed lawmakers to return to their home states to campaign for the 6 November election.
That is where Golkar could find itself at an advantage in its campaign for the re-election of President B.
He managed the 1977 election campaign for the right-wing Likud's Menachem Begin, and became the first Likud defence minister.
Beyond that, I'm not sure if really things will change a lot because we have too many interests involved, two parties joining into a coalition that has actually fought against each other in the election campaign for weeks.
He has carried out four of the five chief policies he set out in the election campaign: money for child care, a cut in the sales tax, tougher laws against street crime, and legislation to make politicians and the civil service more accountable.
The last full week of the United Kingdom's general election campaign for 2010 began with the focus on the economy.
But the biggest decision it's unable to make right now involves McCain's public funds for the general election campaign.
Time out, that is, for the election campaign in which the Republicans will proclaim themselves the anti-terrorism party.
He had worked for the election campaign of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who introduced him to Lauder, 54.
These went down a storm with a Labour Party audience, but may possibly need fine-tuning for the election campaign.
Is he simply waiting for the election campaign before getting to work?
An observer mission from the Organisation of American States said that the campaign for Peru's presidential election was flawed, in part because of media bias, but noted that opposition candidates and voters were keen to take part.
In the campaign for a mid-term election on July 5th involving all 500 seats in the lower house of Congress, PRI candidates across the country have solemnly trooped into public notaries' offices to turn their campaign promises into formal pledges.
Indeed, so many staff have been ferried up from London that its Scottish headquarters is beginning to take on the proportions of the machine it assembled at London's Millbank for the last general-election campaign.
Dr Murphy said seeing more police on patrol in communities was "far and away" the biggest issue for people he had met during the election campaign.
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The first, and perhaps most important, contest of the new election campaign will be the battle for the Likud party's nomination.
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