American officials expect all the political parties to implore them to take their side in what promises to be a fractious post-election period.

Obama, at a press conference Wednesday, called it "the most productive post-election period we've had in decades."

Will this post-election period and the next Congress be a time of renewed gridlock or bipartisan progress?

Those officials said they wanted to take advantage of that personal chemistry during the critical post-election period.

The post-election period was something of a political netherworld for Mr. Bush.

"They have increasingly been concerned with protecting their freedom to maneuver come the post-election period."

In particular, Ter-Petrosyan said "during the current post-election period we have seen everything but political processes."

His presence as deputy leader would also help the left to breathe beyond this immediate post-election period.

We would like to know how the police behaved with demonstrators in the post-election period.

"It seems to me that this is something we want to start doing in the immediate post-election period," he said.