Indeed, where else are they to do so if not with the electorate in the run-up to an election?

Just about nothing, in fact, looks like what he must have hoped for in the run-up to an election.

Such a move would be politically unpopular, particularly in the run-up to an election in which the war has become a highly charged issue.

It said that in the run-up to an election, it would comment on planning opportunities based on pronouncements by political parties.

Of course, continuous and insatiable demand for 'immediate' opinion-poll results in the run-up to an election can lead only to inadequate, inaccurate and misleading data.

Though they are not permitted to send election materials, borderline material is often sent, especially in the run-up to an election by those in close races.

The relationship between the stock market's course in the run-up to an election and the election's outcome may be a "statistical fluke or numerical nonsense," Mr. Stack said.

But, it also knew that no politician in the run-up to an election would allow himself to be associated in any way with organisations or groups tainted with crime or violence.

"The only way to do it is with bipartisan support, and in the run-up to an election, it very difficult to imagine such support," said a senior Administration official who insisted on not being identified.

I really do think that this House has, over the past months, shown itself to be responsible, in that not even in the run-up to an election does it add on one project after another indiscriminately.

His remarks caused consternation in Downing Street because Mr Blair is anxious in the run-up to an election to play down the prospect of early British membership of the euro.

This is just a case of currying favour in the run-up to an election campaign. However, consumers are responsible people, many being producers themselves, and they know that the balance of the 1985 directive must not be altered.

America and Germany are countries which are particularly good at recruiting and keeping in regular contact with their supporters, which makes it far easier to galvanise them when you need them most in the run-up to an election.

She has every right – maybe even a duty – to defend the British Government in the run-up to an election, but credible is not a word that can be used to describe the terms in which she did so.

In some countries YouTube is completely blocked, either through a long term standing ban or for more limited periods of time such as during periods of unrest, the run-up to an election, or in response to upcoming political anniversaries.

In the run-up to an election, the PRD candidate in June 2010 accused the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of a campaign of harassment and threats to ensure that the people voted for their candidate.

Finally, the motives for deferring to public opinion pressures are at their strongest only in the run-up to an election, when most incumbent political leaderships anyway try to manipulate government budgets and taxation so that economic and social conditions are favourable for their cause.

Um ... because the trade union that provides a large part of their funding is in the process of massively inconveniencing hundreds of thousands of voters in the run-up to an election in which Labour were already set to get a thrashing?

Moreover, in a volatile period, such as the run-up to an election, all kinds of events may predispose some people to change their minds and their attitudes, and it may well be important to chart this movement in order to decide if it is systematic, persistent or spasmodic.