If Mrs Arroyo wins (as currently expected), she would have a much clearer mandate the next time round.
For American stocks, the fourth quarters of presidential election years have tended to provide good returns, particularly when the incumbent wins, as is currently expected in investor polls.
Last week, BBC Radio Manchester hosted the first of three live election debates in Withington, a seat currently held by the Lib Dems and tipped for a Labour victory, if the swing in support remains as is currently expected.
The aim is to be off the site by 2014, rather than 2022 as currently expected, by switching to 24-hour waste removal.
Those could include sea levels as much as 3 feet higher than currently expected — a potentially devastating problem for large coastal cities in Asia and Africa.
Senate Democrats are currently expected to vote on a proposal to restore unemployment benefits as soon as Monday.
An online petition urging the government not to let Britain's population hit 70m by 2027, as it is currently expected to, attracted over 100,000 signatures in seven days, according to its sponsor, a lobbying think-tank called Migration Watch.
As a result, rates could either rise later, or more slowly, than currently expected.
If such inflammatory Trump comments are either muted, or simply seen as old hat by the time of the election, and if Clinton has her current lead in the polls, it is possible that Trump-hating turnout might not be as high as many currently expect it to be.
