Tragedy collided with an unpleasant side of election-year politics on Friday, prompting the suspension of negative advertising in one of the country's most hotly contested battleground states.
Her own election campaign in 2003 she called "the most difficult point in my life," and she deplored the "dirty side" of elections: money and lies, understandably, but also what she derided as the "million promises" made by her opponent, as though campaign promises were somehow inappropriate.
People are STILL voting on Chicago's north side because of election judge problems @cbschicago #Election2014.
People are STILL voting on Chicago's north side because of election judge problems @cbschicago #Election2014— Elizabeth Godvik (@GodvikNewzGirl) November 5, 2014.
But not this side of the election.
But not now, or not this side of the election.
You cannot expect anyone to commit themselves to anything this side of an election".
Now nothing is likely to happen this side of the election.
I don't actually believe we will see bulldozers this side of the election.
Both ideas are anathema in Germany, at least this side of the election and probably for much longer.
The likelihood is that earnings will not start to rise more rapidly than prices this side of the election.
