To a degree, the malaise is the inevitable result of the political cycle.

When a party reaches this point in the political cycle, it starts to please itself, rather than the electorate.

At this point in the political cycle, we're normally due for an insurgency.

"But later in the political cycle I will endorse one of them."

McKinley has also commented on the historical link between political and economic cycles.

The elites held much power within the political cycles.

Labor leaders said the money would help finance its $34 million program in the two-year political cycle.

It's far, far higher than we've ever been at this point in the political cycle two or three years after a general election.

It can only be natural in two jurisdictions going through such separate economic, political,and social cycles.

When political cycles have run their course, the old actors must often leave the stage-voluntarily or by defeat.