After the Dayton accords at the beginning of 1996 he was involved in the preelection campaign.

"The breadth of Ahmadinejad's support was apparent in our preelection survey.

The preelection period was a turbulent one.

In the preelection polls of 1996, Clinton generally led by thirteen to fifteen points, yet his election day margin shrank to nine.

"Hell," he said, in a magnificent preelection gesture, "if nature thinks we're the Yukon, let's roll with the punch.

Still others traditionally wait until their final preelection poll when they feel accuracy counts most, and when they think people's decisions about whether to vote are firmest.

Mr President, the first thing I would like to say is that President Moi must deliver on his preelection promises for constitutional reform.

According to Texas Monthly, when Keller was asked in a preelection interview if she was bound to follow the law, even if it meant an unjust result.

But persistent exposure to the same paper-type at least three times a week for a whole year may well have some effect, particularly if it is a preelection year when the political temperature usually rises.

In the preelection shadow cabinet of Andrea Ypsilanti, candidate for prime minister of Hesse in 2008, Scheer was pegged unsuccessfully as minister for development, environment and economics.

In the south, the vote represented a rejection of the men who had cooperated with the government-voters defeated all three southerners in the preelection cabinet-and a victory for advocates of autonomy within a federal system.

With an eye to the fury ignited by Israel's bombardment of southern Lebanon last month, King Hussein sent word that Mr. Peres would not be welcome in Amman for what was to have been a preelection photo opportunity.

Indeed, the Cook Political Report (which is to elections what the racing tout sheet is to the track) ranked only 55 House races nationally as competitive in its preelection listings, compared with 121 in 1992 after the last reapportionment.

OLD aldermen with beards on their jowls, monomaniacal ward captains, party officials, ex-mayors, and precinct hacks insisted as one that the preelection debates embrace a topic or two other than the holiness of winter and the theory of balance and grace.

The Republicans countered by accusing the Democrats of scheming to annex the suburban counties to Philadelphia (a preelection bugaboo that was repeated in succeeding elections in various forms), plotting to levy a wage tax on county residents and running a "Fifth Amendment sympathizer" for governor.