By the standards of today's world the election in South Africa is a political miracle.

But consider the political miracle taking place in Moscow today.

"We're pulling off a political miracle here," he added, sounding remarkably optimistic about the future.

His happy handsome face was everywhere, a political miracle.

But from 1800 on, salons performed a political and social miracle.

Even Lincoln's old friend Washburne still found it hard to believe that such an incredible political miracle had indeed taken place.

A real political miracle has taken place there, which is firmly ingrained in our minds: the country moved from apartheid to democracy.

But getting a consensus on actual legislation was something of a political miracle.

A16 Automatic spending cuts begin at midnight today, barring a political miracle in Congress.

On the eve of a political miracle, her theme was unremitting vengefulness.