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How much money did you raise for your presidential campaign?

Michael Bloomberg, the post-partisan billionaire mayor of New York City, claims right now not to be interested in a presidential run.

As a presidential candidate, several times Mr. Obama said something like this comment he made in July about the war in Iraq.

The president said he had fulfilled a pledge he made as a presidential candidate to bring the Iraq war to a responsible end.

In the vice-presidential matchup, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has refused to provide any health records or to be interviewed on the subject.

All three candidates in the presidential race offered cautious endorsement of at least some parts of the Treasury's plan.

But after the election, some people in his company began to call for Ford to be the Republican presidential nominee in nineteen twenty-four.

Poland's presidential election, originally due to be held in the autumn, is now expected to take place in June.

Al Gore did not try hard enough: he wore too much make-up in his first presidential debate.

Presidential hopefuls did not spend much time in Iowa this year because favorite son, Senator Harkin, was one of the candidates.

Senator John McCain, a Republican presidential hopeful, has said he wants to see the United States in the ICC.

Who was going to win the French presidential election in a few weeks, she wondered aloud to several seat mates in the front row.

The White House said the president is reading the assessment at the presidential retreat, Camp David, over the Labor Day holiday weekend.

And he won about 70 million popular votes more than any other presidential candidate, of any race, of any party, in history.

Imagine, though, how grim things would have been if yesterday's announcement had instead been a presidential no-show.

It was the most viewed story on the Web site all day. So was a recent story on (Democratic presidential hopeful) John Edwards's hairdresser.

The Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has been a novelist, journalist, a film director, political leader and a presidential candidate.

Broder said he does not believe wearing Yankee baseball caps will help either Clinton or Giuliani in their presidential bids.

When Calvin Coolidge learned he was nominated to be Warren Harding 's Vice Presidential candidate, his wife asked if he would accept.

Niger's Consultative Council has suggested that only those with a university degree should be allowed to run in presidential elections.

With the left in triumphant mood, and just two years left before the 2012 presidential election, how much trouble is Mr Sarkozy in?

"We have so much material, it's going to be a joy, " exulted Michele Bachmann, a congresswoman and presidential candidate.

Now, a presidential decree has made a small but significant change: honour- killers must face at least two years in prison.

In 1992, the President of the United States presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work.

Until just a few months ago, 51-year-old Senator John Edwards of North Carolina was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

This week, however, a presidential adviser talked of an "organised plot" to destabilise Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni.

This projection of financial might comes just a week before the presidential election.

Pre-selection of the U. S. presidential election is the first phase of the election year, usually from the beginning to the end of the year.

His demise throws open a presidential election due next year in which he had been expected to run.

He remains stiff at his presidential podium -- there's a bit of a shoulder sway, a few finger flourishes.

Cutting corporate taxes is not the kind of idea that normally pops up in presidential campaigns.

McCain began a week-long tour of poor communities around the country that generally get little attention from presidential candidates.

Since the 1920s, the presidential power had begun to expand and the congressional power had become weaker relatively.

The U. S. Presidential Election is around the corner. Take a wild guess, who will be the next president?

Instead the visit is more of a nice photo opportunity, burnishing the presidential image in the lead-up to a tough election campaign.

Mr Putin is well placed to serve two back-to-back presidential terms that would keep him in power until 2024 at which point he would be 71.

If the constitution did not prohibit consecutive terms, Ms Bachelet would be strongly placed to win the presidential election in December.

BIG, peaceful demonstrations in the run-up to a presidential election may look like signs of a healthy democracy. Not in Russia.

Just over a week until election day, and the Presidential candidates are rallying voter support over the weekend.

Niger's military rulers have suggested that only those with a university degree should be allowed to run in presidential elections.

The US President highlighted what he said were differences between him and his rival , Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

As an ethnic Luo, Mr Odinga is proud of his friendship with Barack Obama, an American presidential candidate whose father was also Luo.

MCCAIN: And I guarantee you he would not -- he would not say that presidential top level.

Juan Manuel Santos resigned as defence minister to launch a presidential bid but said he would not run against Mr Uribe.

The first lady said the presidential pooch celebrated his first birthday earlier this month with a Rose Garden party.

He made no mention of disputed presidential elections in Iran in which hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner.

Maradona told journalists at the presidential palace as he stood alongside Chavez. "I'm with him until death. "

He said he was not ill. Nor was he quitting to run in next year's presidential election.

German political observers described that this presidential election was exciting like the World Cup.

Barack Obama and his wife Michelle said during the presidential campaign that they had promised their two girls a dog after the election.

He said it was a victory "for socialism, for revolution" and that he would be a candidate in the next presidential election in 2012.

Agreement on policy is easier than action, he adds: "thousands of regional presidential directives have never been implemented. "

The tone of the rhetoric in the U. S. presidential campaign is sharpening with less than a week to go until Election Day.

President Niyazov made the announcement in a speech broadcast on Turkmen television, which in effect made it a presidential order.

After all was said and done, what was Bridges' impression of the subject of his very presidential impression?

It doesn't take a crystal ball -- or reams of data -- to say that the 2012 presidential election is going to be close.

Manuel Valls, a fellow Socialist presidential aspirant, said he had tears in his eyes at the sight of Mr Strauss-Kahn in the dock.

Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who's been impersonated several times on the comedy show, showed up to show off her sense of humor.

The Democratic presidential candidate had previously said he would accept public funding which limits the amount campaigns can spend.

In Latin America, the ongoing machinations surrounding last month's disputed presidential election result continued to dominate the news.

During the presidential campaign, he said he would redeploy troops from Iraq to Afghanistan.

Are we witnessing the emergence of the Long Tail of politics over the course of this presidential election cycle in the United States?

Huawei has become a hot-button issue leading up to the U. S. Presidential elections as well.

The 47-year-old presidential candidate planned to present the flowers to his wife ahead of their anniversary meal in Chicago Friday evening.

The company declined the suggestion and said it would wait out the next step in the process, which is a 15-day presidential review.

It was overshadowed by the presidential campaign, but last Dec. 5 a bit of environmental legislative history was made.

He found a voting system that he says would have helped Florida avoid its problems in the two thousand presidential election.

Presidential advisers are as likely to decide policy as ministers. The prime minister's job has been downgraded to that of manager.

Many legal experts believe the U. S. Supreme Court could review the case law on abortion during the next presidential administration.

The prisoner asked to see Obama's two books last August, at a time when the US presidential elections were entering the home stretch.

The company declined the suggestion and said it would wait out the next step in the process, which is a 15-day presidential review.

It was overshadowed by the presidential campaign, but last Dec. 5 a bit of environmental legislative history was made.

He found a voting system that he says would have helped Florida avoid its problems in the two thousand presidential election.

Presidential advisers are as likely to decide policy as ministers. The prime minister's job has been downgraded to that of manager.

Many legal experts believe the U. S. Supreme Court could review the case law on abortion during the next presidential administration.

The prisoner asked to see Obama's two books last August, at a time when the US presidential elections were entering the home stretch.

Despite calls for a million-person march to the Presidential Palace some 10 kilometers away, there was no apparent move to leave.

In that way, Twitter is a very poor tool for judging popular sentiment in Iran and trying to assess who won the presidential election.

For his part, Mr Seck is probably trying to weigh up his options with a view to maximizing his chances in the next presidential poll.

He said that he witnessed the shooting attack on Suleiman's vehicle in an area near the presidential palace in Heliopolis in Cairo.

Mr Duvalier's return coincides with a dispute over the result of a presidential election.

He began the tour in the southern state of North Carolina, a state that has not voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in 30 years.

Under Eisenhower presidential meetings with foreign leaders had not ordinarily been for the transaction of business.

It was a presidential pep talk delivered at a time of economic uncertainty for many American families.

The nationalist conservative had said he would seek a second term in presidential elections this fall.

Later, presidential aides and officials at the Unification Ministry said South Korea isn't ready to rejoin the six-party talks immediately.

Two years into a presidency, it is now getting late to be touting presidential potential.

Mrs Clinton has also positioned herself brilliantly for a presidential run after the traumas of her White House years.

Bill Scranton's father had been a popular governor and a viable presidential candidate during the 1960s.

Fatah then won backing from the United States to turn the presidential guard into an elite force to counter that of Hamas.

Bill Scranton's father had been a popular governor and a viable presidential candidate during the 1960s.

Fatah then won backing from the United States to turn the presidential guard into an elite force to counter that of Hamas.

It was an improvement on the embarrassing 37 he had rolled during a stop on the presidential campaign trail a year ago.

Russian politicians sometimes sound like opposition leaders, and Mr Medvedev makes pledges as if he were a presidential candidate.

Not to have done so would have derailed any hopes he might nurture of running for a second presidential term.

They were people from the presidential guard, since the police were a little behind.

In the emerging presidential campaign, it's easy to see a version of these questions dominating the debate.

She said the Democrats can only do so much and that the Presidential election in November 2008 will make all the difference on the war.

Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber.

Chosen through the general, or presidential election, the President is the most prominent figure in the United States.

Chosen through the general, or presidential election, the President is the most prominent figure in the United States.

One person beginning to articulate this idea is Mitt Romney, one of the frontrunners to be the Republican presidential candidate.

The share market euphoria that greeted Barack Obama's victory in the U. S. presidential election did not last long.

The country was in a state of siege, and tanks were lined up in front of the Presidential palace.

And how much is a presidential suite for a night?

More than two years before the next presidential election is too early to rule out a Republican return to the White House.

Smoke billowed from a shopping center overrun by the insurgents just a few yards from the presidential palace.

As is often the case, Iowa was the end of the campaign trail for some presidential candidates.

Controlling the flow of public information has never been less obtainable by a presidential administration -- or more pursued by one.

Tsvangirai withdrew from the presidential runoff election Sunday saying that it was an illegitimate, violent sham.

"We are sorry to let you down. Our efforts were not enough, " said the island's first female presidential candidate.

Presidential Power Hand & Body Wash: I know some of the Beauty Brains are happy to see the White House get cleaned.

You have helped us kick-off the general election on the strongest footing of any presidential challenger ever.

BBC reporter in Abidjan said there had been fierce clashes around the national TV station, near the presidential palace.

The proposed overhaul is a major test of Mr. Sarkozy's capacity to govern, less than two years before the next presidential elections.

Opposition to embryonic stem-cell research has been somewhat subdued since the last presidential election; but it has never gone away.

As the US gears up for another presidential election, the situation in Washington is not any better than it was four years ago.

She also cited the 2008 race's significance as the first to produce a major party nomination of an African-American presidential candidate.

The next presidential campaign, moreover, will open in about a year.

Ultimately, members of her staff say, she had no interest in lurching from crisis to crisis as presidential advisers see fit.

In a recent Pew poll, 25% of Americans said they would be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who was a Mormon.

He praised the army for taking over a presidential office in the city center and invited the people to come with him to occupy it.

One of Mr Lee's prospective ministers and several presidential aides have had to resign after questions were raised over their ethics.

In a clear bid to influence next January's presidential election, Mr Medvedev said he was waiting for new leadership in Ukraine.

SEGOLENE ROYAL, the French Socialist presidential candidate, is trying to pull off a heroic political trick.

"This will also be America's first wartime presidential transition in four decades, " he said.

Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain supported the surge. His Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama, did not.

The Constitution of the United States says that there must be a presidential election every four years.

French politicians, in the run-up to the presidential election next year, are unlikely to have anything useful to contribute.

Last used in the Carter administration, such a credit was touted by Barack Obama during the presidential campaign.

The court did not comment on its order today, rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio to intervene in the presidential election.

Rather than regretting how the Republicans in Congress have behaved, Mr Obama should look harder at his own use of his presidential power.

In subsequent years, he repeated anti-Semitic remarks at large rallies, but he did not inject himself into the 1988 presidential campaign.

It was the first major Obama presidential news conference at which he was not asked questions about foreign affairs.

And she will have to shelve any presidential aspirations of her own that she may still harbour.

More recently, it has vigorously opposed Zuma's presidential bid and is legally challenging the dropping of his corruption case.

He is probably trying to hold on until the presidential elections in September.

The EU has refused to recognize the result of the June 27 presidential run-off poll in which Mr. Mugabe was the sole candidate.

Lately, however, the White House has been striving to transform Mr Boehner from the genial butt of presidential jokes into a mortal foe.

China is trying to avoid making trade issues a big theme of the American presidential election campaign.

China is trying to avoid making trade issues a big theme of the American presidential election campaign.

He was an adviser to President Bush and advised Mitt Romney in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

A further sign of the presidential trappings that will soon be part of his daily life was the motorcade.

I shall not interpret the number of Facebook friends I have like a presidential poll to determine popularity.

Conservative television pastor and one-time presidential candidate Pat Robertson said the policy invites the revenge of God.

The night before he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995, a woman at the Cosmos Club asked him to fetch her coat.

Although South Africa's media continue to talk up his presidential prospects, he says he has no interest in returning to politics.

The Republican presidential candidate set out his economic plan in a speech this week in Pennsylvania.

What passes for a government is protected by an African Union peacekeeping force guarding the presidential palace.

He had defended himself in court for years and had even asked for a presidential pardon.

He has been awarded the Presidential Scholar Medal by the President of the United States at the White House.

The GOP presidential field, while hardly dominated by political giants, appears far less outlandish than one might have predicted.

The Republic Presidential candidate set out his economic plane in a speech this week in Pennsylvania.

Clinton, 60, acknowledged in a speech charged with emotion that she had lost the struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination.

White House officials had assumed making Mr. Huntsman an ambassador removed him from the presidential running.

Security around the presidential palace at Bogor, where Bush met his Indonesian counterpart, was nothing less than a military operation.

But this year other presidential hopefuls did not spend much time in Iowa because Senator Harkin from Iowa was a favorite son candidate.

Rules within parties for nominating presidential candidates are not spelled out in the U. S. Constitution.

In the next week , Dick Goodwin began the White House review of Latin American policy in preparation for the presidential speech .

Chang supported Chen when he ran for President in 2000. After Chen was elected Chang was named as one of his senior presidential advisors.

Betty Kwan Chinn was one of 13 recipients of the 2010 Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation's second highest civilian award.

A presidential associate inevitably tends to overrate the significance of the things he does know about.

Carrying a mobile SCIF around is an important part of any presidential trip, he says, adding that they are getting easier to transport.

In some places, primary turnout was triple that of the last presidential election.

In the run-up to a presidential election, US intellectuals compete hard to shape the foreign policy agenda.

For the top two presidential candidates, the debates are over, the conventions are far behind us, the election is less than two weeks away.

Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and another Democratic presidential candidate, is also up in arms.

In the British sense, the job of "opposition leader" exists only for a month or two before each presidential election.

We often cite 1992 as the last presidential year when the environment was as gloomy and ripe for disruption.

For together with the peculiar presidential itinerary, the White House made a first move to put some substance on the table.

The GOP presidential field, while hardly dominated by political giants, appears far less outlandish than one might have predicted.

The former governor of Minnesota is looking casual and yet somehow presidential in a yellow shirt and jeans.

The Republic Presidential candidate set out his economic plane in a speech this week in Pennsylvania.

The ultimate aim of an ambitious peace document is for a presidential election, already postponed twice, to be held within ten months.

Clinton, 60, acknowledged in a speech charged with emotion that she had lost the struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination.

White House officials had assumed making Mr. Huntsman an ambassador removed him from the presidential running.

Security around the presidential palace at Bogor, where Bush met his Indonesian counterpart, was nothing less than a military operation.

But this year other presidential hopefuls did not spend much time in Iowa because Senator Harkin from Iowa was a favorite son candidate.

Rules within parties for nominating presidential candidates are not spelled out in the U. S. Constitution.

In the next week , Dick Goodwin began the White House review of Latin American policy in preparation for the presidential speech .

Nigeria's Transitional Monitoring Group dispatched thousands of election observers around the country to watch the presidential poll.

In Tamil-dominated Jaffna, however, presidential portraits, plastered all over the south for the inauguration, are scarce.

Typically, he said, presidential approval ratings hover about 20 percentage points above the national 'right direction' number.

Big money is necessary to support a presidential candidate's campaign, and the candidate himself must be rich enough to pay his share.

In a clear appeal to young voters, a YouTube video asks viewers to vote for Clinton's presidential campaign theme song on her Web site.

By 1936, only a dozen states continued to hold presidential primaries.

Final preparations are taking place in Nigeria for Saturday's presidential election, the biggest such poll in Africa.

Both the presidential election and various statistical measures appeared to bear out the conventional wisdom.

Mr Norquist, 55, was a confirmed conservative by his teens when he volunteered for Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign.

The last presidential candidate to be able to afford similar programming was Ross Perot, in 1992.

Media reports say up to one million eight hundred thousand people attended the presidential inauguration Tuesday.

SIXTEEN years ago an American presidential election was fought against the backdrop of a weak economy and a grumpy electorate.

The electorate was heavily skewed to the right in 2010, whereas presidential years tend to draw out a more middle-of-the-road crowd.

I hadn't figured it all out yet, but I had begun to make plans for my presidential library.

However, with a stroke of the presidential pen, Mr Bush has bypassed all the expected wrangling over the area's management and use.

Somalia's central government controls little more than a few blocks around the presidential palace in Mogadishu and the airport.

Enrlichman had his hands full, for a Presidential trip is a major logistical undertaking.

Deep in the corridors of the Kremlin, it is clear the starting gun has been fired for presidential elections just under a year from now.

Had this been a presidential poll, Mr Ma would be in trouble.

He says that while he has no presidential ambitions himself, the job is not a bad preparation for being in charge of the country.

SHE arrived in the presidential palace with a reputation as a no-nonsense manager, but one who had never previously held elected office.

Mr Hollande, a strong runner for the Socialist presidential nomination, replied that he had "no knowledge" of the gravity of the charges.

As of now, the presidential election is expected to be very close, whoever ends up running against Obama.

If he faced corruption charges, he could not be nominated presidential candidate under the rules of his party, the Kuomintang.

The age of social media has empowered amateur journalists, fledgling presidential candidates and creative corporate marketers.

Finally, the conditions to have credible presidential and parliamentary elections do not exist as yet.

Graduate student Qian Jin succeeded in getting into the event and got to shake the presidential hand.

At the end of a weeklong foreign trip, a ride on the presidential plane, Airforce 1, is always well received.

The Afghan president said it was a "transparent" process "to help the presidential office" .

The first "Internet election" took place in 2008 with the U. S. Presidential election.

But it was a symbolic knock for Mr Sarkozy just seven months before a presidential election, and it has crushed morale in his party.

That's stronger than the last three winning presidential candidates at this point in the campaign.

But poll numbers are not the only, and not perhaps the best, way of judging presidential performance.

Traditionally women are more likely to vote Democrat in the presidential election - and a majority of women are supporting John Kerry.

Several potential Republican presidential contenders are expected to announce their plans within the next few months.

Neither of the front-runners in the presidential election is a mainstream politician.

A book that he wrote a year before the 2007 presidential election, intended as a draft manifesto, contained barely a word on the subject.

They simply did not want slavery to spread to other areas. The Republican Party held its presidential nominating convention in Philadelphia.

This week, the two major presidential candidates gave new details of their plans to help Americans deal with the economic crisis.

And a Presidential Assistant soon learns that his only strength is the President's confidence; without it, his position will rapidly erode.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain laid out a detailed foreign policy blueprint in a speech in Los Angeles.

With five years of his presidential term still left, he has the luxury of reconsidering the method while retaining the same goals.

The first and the last Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa fly to Samara during presidential campaign in 1996.

Shepard Fairey is a street artist who became famous for his image of Barack Obama that became popular during the last presidential campaign.

Taiwan's presidential election might prove to be a perilous watershed in its relationship with China. Can Beijing rein in the renegade?

In the background, a reporter chatters on about the Vice President's possible running mates for her Presidential campaign.

In that capacity, Lincoln invented the concept of presidential war powers that are again at the center of controversy today.

He was also forced to rule himself out of the 1972 presidential election, which Nixon won with a landslide.

Tolo plans two more presidential debates, and Thursday night's host said he hoped Karzai would participate.

Obama took the presidential autopen out of the closet and into a new realm.

Federalist opponents of Thomas Jefferson spread rumors that he was an "infidel" during his first presidential election.

With these credentials, "Obama could have done anything he wanted, " noted David Axelrod, now his presidential campaign strategist.

THIS time a year ago, shortly before a presidential election, Iran seemed on the verge of momentous change.

Its next job will be to come up with a plausible presidential candidate, capable of communicating with ordinary Venezuelans.

ONE of Barack Obama's riskiest decisions, on winning the presidential election, was to choose Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state.

Hughes, Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm roommate, was an online organizer for the Obama presidential campaign.

In the 2008 presidential election, celebrities like Bono and Oprah Winfrey came out for Barack Obama early in the campaign.

Much to our bewilderment, nowadays everything from a presidential campaign to a heavy weight fighter's rape trial is show business.

Expect to hear a chorus of presidential candidates blame unfair Chinese competition for America's manufacturing woes.

The United States first female presidential candidate Hillary Clinton subsequent to this political novice expressed congratulations.

The imminent presidential elections and current downward slope of the American economy are enough to induce fear and anxiety in all of us.

US presidential race hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton walked somberly into a press conference Tuesday and stood before microphones.

Potential presidential candidate, Fred Thompson, says he's been diagnosed with a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer.

On the face of it, this presidential reaction, though traditional among chief executives, is rather puzzling.

Back when he was a presidential candidate, Obama expressed surprising admiration for Reagan's game-changing, tax-cutting presidency.

It couldn't have been a more dramatic prelude to the presidential handover.

"Our military immediately fired back in response, " a Seoul presidential official told the news agency on condition of anonymity.

Air Force One is maintained and operated by the Presidential Airlift Group, part of the White House Military Office.

First, it is the latest example of an arrogant, unilateral presidential decision to send American troops into a combat setting.

And it's more than just a savvy fashion choice: The hat will be incorporated into his symbol on the upcoming presidential election ballots.