Let's examine the Final Four in terms of their wins and losses over the span of this season.
For Pidgeon, who has already served all but the final months of two terms as an assembly member, the goal is to restore the Lib Dems as London's undisputed third party.
That perception grew particularly strong in the final years of the two terms of Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr., who was seen as too friendly to big business as the city struggled to cope with the collapse of the dot-com economy.
Still, in the years from 1946 through 2009, 62 percent of the American economy's growth came during the final two years of presidential terms, compared with 38 percent in the first two years.
What kind of greeting the Clintons will get is unclear, with the news today that he had suffered the final indignity of his two terms with the suspension of his law license for five years and a $25,000 fine to end disbarment proceedings against him.
Mr. Scott was not appointed to complete Mr. DeMint's six-year term; in 2014, an election will be held for the final two years of the term.
But his popularity has been declining as he enters the final two years of his term.
And so during the final two years of his term, Governor Romney's balance sheet included a new and weighty set of considerations.
Now the army is in its barracks, and although Philippine politics remain rambunctious, few doubt that Mr Aquino will complete the final two years of his term.
