Although my initial take is that Martha is right,

Martha Kolln wrote:

>
>         I prefer that we wait a little longer.
>
> I don't think you'd be tempted to use the past here, would you?

Most preferences in the present are stated about a present.


Is it possible to have a preference for a particular result in the past?

  Now, you prefer that the South won the Civil War, but I prefer that it
lost.

Bob Yates