So what does that mean for Iraq policy as the American election draws near?
To compete with America, Mr Medvedev even scheduled his recent state-of-the-nation address to coincide with the American election.
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Just days after the American election, the Canadian prime minister proposed a continental cap-and-trade system to control carbon emissions something the oil industry in Canada adamantly opposed.
Even if the American election itself seems inscrutable to Japanese voters, the result -- a leader who is in office for at least four years -- looks good.
"If, as Bob Woodward reports, it is true that gas supplies and prices in America are tied to the American election, then tied to a secret White House deal, that is outrageous and unacceptable to the American people, " he said during a campaign stop in Florida.
And even if his policies on Iraq and the Middle East turn out to be much the same in practice as Mr Bush's, Mr Kerry would enjoy the benefit of the doubt at least during those crucial months between the American election and the British one expected in May.
Some Iraqis predict a flurry of attacks on the eve of the American presidential election in November, with the rebels hoping that they may thereby help bring down George Bush.
Most of the leading candidates in the American presidential election are more progressive on climate change, but the new president will not take office until January 2009.
It has been interesting to watch in the recent American presidential election groups within the electorate referring to themselves as Irish American, Italian-American or African American.
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Kennedy's own published view was that he was committed to supporting South Vietnam at least until the next American election in 1964.
And the American presidential election was only eight weeks away.
The law was written about a decade after the last truly chaotic American election, the Rutherford Hayes-Samuel Tilden race of 1876, when Hayes became President after the wheeling and dealing of competing slates of Southern electors.
"This will be the election in which the most people have ever voted in an American election in the history of our country, " he said.
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The distractions of an American election year will further weaken the fraying connection with the ex-communist countries that were once America's most admiring and loyal friends.
After all, Rosa Parks, and so many others who fought and sacrificed for equality and justice of all, paved the way for the election and re-election of the first African-American president.
The American decision to recognise the election followed a change of policy.
Huang was the Democratic party's chief fund-raiser for the Asian-American population during the 1996 election cycle.
All of the major candidates for the 2008 American Presidential election have support on Facebook and profiles on MySpace.
At the same time, our focus and the President's focus has always been putting on blinders, implementing our ground game, implementing laying out for the American people the choice in this election.
Ignoring voices in their own party and the clear message sent by American women in the last election, they instead decided to side with the far right wing of their party by allowing the bill to expire.
Given the history of racism and segregation and slavery in this country, to have the inevitable outcome of the presidential race be the election (or re-election) of a black American would be a historical event, and good for the country.
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He understands that the message of the election was that the American people want action, not political posturing and argument.
Meanwhile, the White House and Congress are staging a dizzying series of negotiations to offer up a stimulus package to rescue the American economy from the doldrums in an election year.
The closest election in American history was a product not of division, but of indifference.
And it is I think the central issue for the American people in this election year.
In the 2012 American presidential-election year, social media will make us more engaged and involved than ever.
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"I'll provide it, John McCain won't, and that's the choice for the American people in this election, " he said.
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