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"This election shapes up to be a perfect storm for that streak to be swamped," said Donald P. Levy, director of the Siena Research Institute, who added that the "outcome seems almost certain".
To some degree, the election shaped up as a referendum on Mr. Schundler's policies, particularly his administration's award of numerous property tax abatements to encourage development of the Hudson River waterfront.
But that political fire appeared to die out in 1995, when Mr. Cheney ended a brief flirtation with his own presidential campaign, dissuaded by an election shaping up over domestic issues, not security matters.
Mr. Paul has responded with accusations of conspiracy, and said he had been threatened — one councilwoman, he said, revved the engine of her Ford Mustang at him twice, and an opponent in last year's election shaped his fingers like a gun in his pocket and pointed it at him during a City Council meeting.
President Obama campaigned for a fourth consecutive day on Saturday as the Democratic Party threw its full weight into preventing a defeat of historic proportions in an election shaped by a sour economy, intense debate over the White House's far-reaching domestic agenda and the rise of a highly energized grass-roots conservative movement.
With the election shaping up as a referendum on Sarkozy's personality, bling style and contested record in office, the president told French radio he had helped steer the eurozone through the worst of its debt crisis, styling himself as the only one with the experience to protect France.
The president said his own experience with social media during the 2008 election shaped his attitudes about the openness of the internet.
The move amounts to a tectonic plate shift in the landscape as the 2012 election shapes up to be the most expensive in modern history.
But with Victoria's state election shaping up to be a referendum on who can be "tougher on crime," it's unlikely talk of Apex, African Gangs, or youth crime is likely to go away any time soon.
