But perhaps too much has happened in the past month for politics to go on as usual.

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Obviously, in a state like Ohio, I'll take, the President has been there making the case for the importance of early voting, making the case for why people should go to the polls on multiple occasions over the past couple of weeks and speaking directly to them in their backyards.

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The BBC understands the commitment to hold the first elections to the Lords in 2015 will be included in the Queen's Speech but the changes will only go ahead on the basis Parliament can reach a consensus on the issue, which has proved impossible in the past.

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In recessions past, people "would go easy on the restaurants and learn to fly coach, " Gregory says.

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Arabs themselves want to move on and are in no mood to go back to the past.

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Off the beaten track, this authentic pub hosts nightly sessions that often result in a closed door, that is, they go on long past the official closing time.

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