Until polling day these fantasy plans made for an arresting contrast with the caricature of a spendthrift Labour party; with the election out of the way, Mr Osborne allowed the day the books will be balanced to slip by another year, creating room for somewhat smaller cuts.
We lost in 2015 with an election out of the playback from the 1980s, from the period of Star Trek, when we stepped even further away from it and lost even worse.
With the election out of the way the chavista movement may once again live up to its reputation as a "nest of scorpions", as it was once described by a former deputy-chairman of the party.Chávez's legacy is a country beset with problems which Mr Maduro looks ill-equipped to solve.
With the election out of the way and the main parties less fearful of alienating their own nationalists, common ground might again be found.Yet even if a plan could be hatched on which the main Sinhalese parties and the moderate Tamils agreed, would not the Tigers simply ignore it, and carry on fighting?
How many of those delegates cheering in the arena for their candidate in 1980 would find themselves, within a year of Reagan's election, out of a job and with no health benefits as unemployment in Michigan rose to become the highest in the country?
With the presidential election out of the way, the 2018 gubernatorial race has begun in earnest.
Julio Recinos, 57, a casino hotel maintenance worker, said he boycotted the midterm elections out of disillusionment with Obama, for whom he had twice voted, but vowed to vote anew now that his Honduran wife, Doris, 37, had the prospect of legalisation.
With elections out of the way, the full size of the regional overspend should now become apparent.The most dramatic event in yesterday's elections was the collapse in the Socialist vote.
"With elections out of the way, the AKP could seek peace, but it obviously has chosen not to," said Ziya Pir, a deputy for the Kurdish-rooted Peoples Democracy Party HDPDP) who visited Silvan on November 11.
With the elections out of the way, the tension should drop off again.
With both elections out of the way, India will now face much greater international pressure to talk.
