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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the national organization tasked with getting Democrats elected, has been absent from the scene.

The unlucky situation provided evidence that Mr. Bloomberg, who vowed to use public transportation every workday if elected, has been keeping his promise.

With bailout funds expiring on 28 February, keeping Greece afloat and in the single currency – while not being seen to ditch the anti-austerity platform on which Syriza was elected – has been a balancing act of almost existential proportions.

A1 Vice President Dick Cheney's core message, that Mr. Kerry will "say or do anything" to get elected, has been repeated in every appearance for the last few weeks.

Cash is expecting a baby in August, but yesterday a Sunday newspaper reported the senior party official in charge of helping to get Cash elected has been overheard saying the sight of a pregnant woman's stomach "made him sick".

Campaign fund-raising of the more than 700 trial-level judges around the state who are elected has been a persistent source of complaints and allegations of corruption, with some judges doling out lucrative assignments to lawyers who were political contributors.

Arab rulers, none of them elected, had been lobbying for a different policy but hastened to endorse Mr. Bush's approach.

Upon learning of Mr. Espada's conviction, Mr. Rivera said his priority since being elected had been to restore his constituents' faith in government.

Since that time, however, four of the six presidents elected had been governors who never served in Washington and who made systemic reform their central campaign themes.

The new mayor and most of the city's freshly elected elect had been sworn in over the weekend, when their terms legally began.

The Labour leader's most recent announcement in the contest to get himself re-elected has been to make 10 pledges to the country.