Looking beyond this, however, the news has led to a renewed round of debate, exposing the fault line between the Government and the Opposition, one which will dominate the next two and a bit years until the election.
It turns out that Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Vice-President Cheney's chief of staff, and assistant for national-security affairs, served off and on for eight years — until the election brought him into the Bush White House — as one of Rich's most aggressive lawyers.
Not only are there almost two years until the election, there is one year until the first series of primaries and almost a month before Obama's expected "official" announcement of his candidacy, set for Feb. 10 in Springfield, Ill., with all the inevitable Lincolnian symbolism that will attract.
However, with just over a week until the 22 May local and European elections and less than a year until the general election, we'd better get used to them.
With local and European election day fast approaching, and a year until the general election, the established parties have not found a way to knock Ukip off its perch.
WITH a little over a year until the presidential election in the Philippines, the chances of Fidel Ramos, the president, running for a second term are receding.
Noura Saad, the minister of planning and development, ascends to the presidency, but only for a year until the next elections.
If most political analysts believe that the coalition will endure, their judgment rests less on inherent strength in the partnership than in the reluctance of all three major parties, including Labour, which governed for 13 years until the May 2010 election, to agree to an early election.
With less than a year to go until the election, poll data suggest that the Republican "white" strategy has a chance of working.
