Military intervention is unthinkable pre-election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ataturk's Long Shadow] Reference

So why is there none of the usual pre-election madness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

At a pre-election rally he called the opposition jackals.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2007] Reference

Final question, why were the pre-election polls so wrong?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2008] Reference

Now, Republicans are looking for a pre-election accomplishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2006] Reference

For her these pre-election days were discouraging and frustrating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference

That number was 10 percent higher than pre-election polls predicted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yugoslavia: The Worst Outcome?] Reference

At a pre-election rally, he said the opposition were behaving like jackals.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2007] Reference

But there were definitely issues, especially ones in the pre-election environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mugabe’s Prisoner] Reference

HOLMES: All right, folks, you may have noticed something in this pre-election season.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2008] Reference

SCHNEIDER: All the pre-election polls indicated that that measure was likely to pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2004] Reference

The pre-election period has also seen rare and limited discussions on economic policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myanmar Loosens Yoke on Farmers] Reference

It's a quarterly pre-election election season in which those who lag lose -- and leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics: The Dems' New Math] Reference

What I'm saying is don't prejudge anyone by his pre-election pledges on the peace process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voting For Peace?] Reference

Big issues at any other time, but now, competing to get on the radar in this short pre-election stretch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Much To Do, Congress Faces Nov. Elections Deadline] Reference

Ed Miliband hinted he would not tackle the deficit as harshly as Darling had planned in his pre-election budget.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labour leadership race: Good for the candidates, bad for the party] Reference

The pre-election financial turmoil had gutted economic growth and forced a steep devaluation of Brazil's currency.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Most Popular Politician on Earth'] Reference

The visit was Obama's first official event after his vacation and kicks off a stretch of pre-election campaigning.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's News: World-Wide] Reference

"Do you think that it's a good pre-election strategy for Democrats to link Republicans to the Tea Party movement?".    From Wordnik.com.  [HUFFPOST HILL - SEPTEMBER 21ST, 2010] Reference

He meant not just fraud but the traditional pre-election spending spree that Americans consider ordinary campaigning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitching The President] Reference

This month, he says, they are "short by one or two," so he thinks a pre-election message is a "very good likelihood.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Qaeda: Plans for an October Surprise?] Reference

But what is important to note is the pre-election environment left a lot to be desired, according to these civic groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mugabe’s Prisoner] Reference

Zhirinovsky, a superb orator with the manners of a playground bully, got into two fistfights during pre-election debates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back To The Future?] Reference

The Telegraph bashes even popular Blair policies like Chancellor Gordon Brown's recent please-everyone pre-election budget.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waterloo For A True Believer] Reference

The possibility of a pre-election bipartisan stampede to extend the tax rates at least to 2013 has been building for weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boehner's Tax Bungle] Reference

The Post's pre-election polling from 2006 found that 60 percent of those who identified themselves as likely voters were black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The District electorate, in black and white] Reference

The political meltdown may also open the door to the pro-Islamic AK Party; its candidates have topped recent pre-election polls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turmoil At The Top] Reference

Democrats in Congress are pushing a flurry of pre-election legislation that aims to help small businesses, manufacturers and workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democrats Push Bills to Aid Small Businesses] Reference

The scheme was first raised in a Conservative pre-election policy document which talked of creating a "new cadre of police reserves".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cameron's answer to budget cuts: get public involved in 'DIY' policing] Reference

THORNBURGH: Well, certainly in a pre-election year there's bound to be a political tinge to most everything that's on the top of the news.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2003] Reference

At the same time, the media's pre-election obsession with Putin obscures the clans 'squabbles while blocking any discussion of Russia's very real problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under A Quiet Surface] Reference