Little more than two weeks ago, Dick Cheney visited Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee in his office on Capitol Hill and Mr. Frist made his pitch, explaining why his experience as a heart surgeon managing life-and-death situations made him the right man to accompany Gov. George W. Bush along the inevitably rocky road to Election Day and, perhaps, the White House.
22 Road to Election Revisions New York City's election rules could be rewritten soon, if the voters approve Mayor Bloomberg's plan to abolish party primaries in 2009.
It fell to Kinnock to rebuild his party and put it on the road to three election wins under Tony Blair.
And the sight of Fallujah's streets, smashed by American artillery and littered with corpses, was hardly an advertisement in the campaign for Iraqi hearts and minds.But the road to an election was bound to be fraught, and the decision to assault Fallujah in the hope of destroying the nerve-centre of the most extreme of the insurgents was taken in the full awareness of heightened political risk.
Principled, perhaps, but the road to re-election just got steeper.
Times are tough and the road to re-election hard, but this is now the Obamas Democratic Partyy as much as the Republicans were Ronald Reagan's party in the 1980s.
The group are looking at welfare, migration, benefit and the road to the 2015 election.
Karl Rove, the White House's chief political planner, spent years preparing the 2000 campaign; he already, it is said, has the road to the 2004 election mapped out.
Today's speech has the potential to mark a pivotal moment in the road to the 2015 election.
Exchanges like this fed concern among some Democrats that the party had taken a wrong turn on the road to the general election.
