W. Bush learned when his Gulf War popularity numbers had disappeared by election time, people have short memories about foreign policy successes.
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You know, I guess we'll have a May election but by the time the election comes this will be regarded as rather insignificant because I don't believe - I can be proved wrong - but I don't believe any major wrongdoing is going to be proved.
Early voting and absentee ballots will ensure that, by the time election day comes around, a significant amount of votes will already be in.
Some, especially those who lead big churches, are courted by politicians at election time, not to mention that as in many countries around the globe, churches are exempt of taxes in Brazil, which can sometimes create a very convenient loophole.
By the time the election ends -- on November 2, 2004 -- the Election Express will have racked up thousands of miles carrying as many as 15 CNN correspondents, anchors and crew members at a time to political hotspots nationwide.
Icahn's proposed slate of directors will be up for election by shareholders at that time.
By the time of the election, thousands of Iraqis will have been trained to man polling centers.
All this assumes that by the time of the election, credit for the expansion will still be viewed as an asset.
But the possible victory of the leftist Workers' Party (PT), led by three-time presidential election loser Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has also made investors nervous.
We started the year running at about 3 or 4% in the opinion polls: by the time of the election in the summer we came second.
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By the time of the election or referendum, whichever comes first, the Tories' insistence on a decade-long pause for reflection may have come to look more evasive than bold.
Perhaps the real question is whether by the time of the election the voters will simply have become bored with Mr Jospin and all too ready to forget his valiant efforts over the previous five years.
The whole point of front-loading the big reforms the Coalition is pushing through almost wherever you look is so that they are bedded down and delivering visible benefits which voters notice, by the time the next election hoves into sight.
Leasing out the infrastructure was meant to have been completed by the time of the mayoral election next May.
Julia Gillard, the Labor prime minister, has promised a vote by the time of the general election due next year.
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By the time nominations for the election closed on September 4th, a total of 29 parties had thrown their hat into the ring.
It had pledged to reduce waiting lists by 10, 000 by the time of the 2001 election - with health an issue devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
That would take the rate of corporation tax to 21% - and makes it almost inevitable that by the time of the 2015 election, the mainstream rate of corporation tax will be 20%.
But Nick Clegg knows he has no choice but to stay the course, hope the economy picks up by the time of the next election and that voters will reward his party for acting in the national interest.
In a conference week peppered with dire warnings, the party's former Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott suggested that if the economy does not improve by the time of the next election, the government and the Lib Dems could be "slaughtered".
Strategically, the calculation is that it is better to get the shock of any spending cuts out of the way quickly - and if the coalition really does last for five years then, as the economy recovers, voters will be feeling the pain less severely by the time of the next election.
Mr Farage stood in the Eastleigh by-election in 1994, the first time the party contested a seat.
Originally, the SNP believed the spring conference would precede the general election by only a short period of time.
By the time of the 2004 general election, he was well enough placed within the party to challenge Mr Papandreou after the Socialist defeat.
He said the "historic" by-election was "only the second time a Conservative victory has been had in a Labour seat in the last 27 years".
Last month Prime Minister David Cameron said he wanted troops home by the time of the next general election - set to be in May 2015.
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The party is unlikely to eclipse the SPD by the time of the next federal election in 2013, but it could catch up soon after that.
But was it still such good sense by the time Labour had won the 1997 election?
She fussed over me when I visited Downing Street at the time of the Chesterfield by-election and was keen that I had whatever support I wanted in that epic struggle against Tony Benn.
Probably by 2000, and certainly by 2001, time will be short: an election will be looming.
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