Jeff Graber, Target's manager, is letting bus supporters use the store's parking lot for a pre-election rally.

At this year's pre-election rally of the Christian Coalition, Dr. Elders was bashed far more frequently from the podium than the President or his wife.

At his pre-election rally, Mr. Izso fielded questions from farmers anxious about their future and then promised, "We are not going to sell out on the land issue."

On 6 June 2008 he was again stopped at a police checkpoint and blocked from attending a pre-election rally at How Mine, near the southern city of Bulawayo.

Mr. Sharpton, 48, noted that at pre-election rally the other night for H. Carl McCall, he and Bill Clinton were among the youngest political figures present.

The defeat shocked the Sandinistas as numerous pre-election polls had indicated a sure Sandinista victory and their pre-election rallies had attracted crowds of several hundred thousand people.

In December 1999 the LTTE attempted to assassinate President Chandrika Kumaratunga in a suicide attack at a pre-election rally.

They thought that, as at the pre-election rallies outside Luzhniki Stadium, they would be able to win you over and sweep aside everything blocking their advance to the head of the Congress.

In preparation for the impending elections in 2011, the Singapore Democratic Party organized two pre-election rallies at Hong Lim Park in September and November 2010.

Mr. Pataki then went off on his own, stopping in Binghamton, Elmira, Utica and Scotia, before heading to Farmingdale on Long Island for the final pre-election rally.

At a rowdy pre-election rally during the 1993 election campaign in Toorak, as vice-president of the AMA, he declared via a megaphone that "I have never voted Liberal in my life!"

The Governor told 800 Democrats who attended the county organization's annual pre-election rally that people who were suffering in the current recession should "send a message" to President Bush by voting against Republicans on Tuesday.

At the TUC conference, which was intended by its chairman, David Basnett, to be a pre-election rally, the premier displayed some unwonted frivolity, singing an old music-hall song about 'There she was, waiting at the church'.

Politicians in Delaware County were also caught up in the excitement at a pre-election rally, with War Board chairman and state Senator McClure stating: "I doubt his sincerity" in describing President Roosevelt's efforts to improve the economy.

As John F. Kennedy arrived at the Chicago Stadium for a pre-election rally, Jaime Cruz Alejandro forced his way through the crowd to get as close as he could to Kennedy's open convertible, then fought with police after running from them.

He said the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal advocacy group, had offered to "defend for free any pastors if they're challenged" by the I.R.S. Focus on the Family and its affiliates are holding pre-election rallies in Pittsburgh, St. Paul and Nashville, but no candidates will be invited to speak.