Richard A. Butler A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.
They are interested, primarily, in avoiding a challenge in the next election from an N.R.A.-backed candidate.
If that is a question for the next election, there is a wider one that we will face over the next couple of decades.
The modellers at Electoral Calculus currently put the chance of a Tory majority after the next election at a slender 2%.
Liberal Democrat members are demanding Nick Clegg make a deal with Labour at the next election, an exclusive poll has revealed.
Are they bad enough to render his reforms an irrelevance, or even a liability, at the next election?
Besides, the Tories need a huge swing to form a government at the next election, probably in 2010.
Parliament is guaranteed a vote and should get it about a year before the next election.
He feared that at the next election, a conservative might carry the White House, calling a closure on his great project.
