In place of news there have been recorded peace messages or reporters listing actual results one constituency at a time.
Jammu and Kashmir, with six constituencies in total, takes five separate days, to allow the security forces to concentrate their efforts on one constituency at a time.
The administration has made an aggressive effort to hold on to Republicans who returned to their constituencies this month at a time of rising antiwar sentiment.
Their eccentric elements notwithstanding, the Tea Parties have something vital to offer the country: a vocal, activist constituency for spending cuts at a time when politicians desperately need to have their spines stiffened on the issue.
The release from the daily constituency grind has also come at a time when a relatively new organisation inside the Liberal Democrats - the Social Liberal Forum - has grown in influence, putting down some of the key amendments and motions for the spring conference, as well as the one coming up in a fortnight in Birmingham.
He was criticised for doing so at a time when parts of his constituency of Witney, in Oxfordshire, was experiencing flooding.
Hillary never had a real core constituency here - but she handed Obama his, one sickening soundbite at a time.
The chairman of Reigate and Banstead Conservative constituency party, Andy Mountney, said that he believed the statement had been issued at a time chosen by the family.
David Davies, the Conservative MP for Monmouth, said on Monday that appointing another Welsh secretary who represents an English constituency would be "politically very difficult for us on the doorstep to explain" at a time when the Tories hold eight Welsh seats.
The answer has less to do with some Greek sense of the inevitability of Western individualism triumphing over Eastern authoritarianism — an attractive reading to various constituencies at various times — than it does with the scientific milieu out of which Herodotus drew his idea of historiē.
