preelection

It was a dramatic shift from pre-election polling, which had McAuliffe up by seven points for most of the last week.

While there is no evidence that Sharpton participated in any of these pre-election activities, he was a leader in the Beatty army.

Both accepted that Obama faced a political imperative, in this pre-election year, to announce a sizable pullout of U.S. troops.

Second, despite some pre-election hype, New York's 26th isn't one of the most Republican districts in the country.