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But with opinion polls showing his popularity diving, on November 5th he said he would not stand for re-election.

One theme that Bush found resonated with voters in his 2004 re-election campaign was that of the "ownership society. "

The Management Committee members are elected by the General Assembly for one year, re-election is possible.

To his political strategists, worried about re-election, his message was that nation-building should start at home.

How can I be assured as a voter that the money being lavishly spent by you and your campaign for re-election is not public finances?

McCain said he intends to run for re-election to the Senate in two years, but laughed off the prospect of another run for president.

Mr. Obama plans to follow up the official beginning of his re-election bid with a series of campaign stops across the country this month.

Fleischer said he wanted to leave the hard-driving job before Bush's re - election campaign geared up.

He did not always win popularity, or re-election.

Hager, who has been a White House aide and worked on Bush's re-election campaign, is the son of John and Maggie Hager of Richmond, Va.

Candidate Obama promised change in his last campaign, and he claims to have created change in the run-up to his re-election bid.

"I'm sure then he (Max Mosley) will take his holiday and not stand for re-election. He would have no reason to stay, " said the Briton.

The chairman had a violent disagreement with the committee and as a parting shot said that he would not be seeking re-election.

The photo of him dressed in this tiger suit was sent to a staffer in November 2010, shortly after his re-election.

Just a few weeks ago, Barack Obama's re-election bid was beginning to look like an easy downhill jog.

Questions have been raised over the financing of the petition campaign with which the re-election drive began.

Wu's spokesman said the congressman has no plans to resign and will seek re-election in 2012.

The next day, January 6th, Democrats were stunned when Mr Ritter announced that he would not stand for re-election this year after all.

Obama himself said last week that if he failed to heal the economy, he would be out of a job by 2012, when he faces re-election.

At any rate, Mr Obama says his desire to raise taxes on the rich will be a prominent part of his campaign for re-election.

The next leader in the crosshairs was the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who was up for re-election the following April.

There was speculation there could be a protest vote at the annual meeting next month against Sir Victor, who was up for re-election.

In the Senate, 12 Democratic incumbents are seeking re-election, and only one seems to be facing a serious challenge.

Her strong performance so far has put paid to that idea, and Lula himself has said he will support her re-election in 2014.

Mr. Chen seems to be quite confident about his campaign for re-election.

Harry Reid is surely aware a U. S. clash with Iran, with him at the president's side, could assure his re-election.

He said nothing about the English attempt to forestall his re-election. His friends said it for him.

And if Mr Obama does win re-election, it may turn out to have made more sense for Mr Huntsman to stay put.

The president's re-election campaign sent an email urging supporters to call Congress, including Mr. Boehner.

So why did he decline to stand for re-election himself and impose his wife as the Peronist candidate?

But Mr Reid is in a desperate fight for re-election in November in his home state of Nevada, where Latinos make up 15% of the electorate.

This week, President Obama gave his State of the Union speech, the last one before he seeks re-election in November.

I think you can't really fault the Obama administration for some of the friction, some of it is congressional short-term re-election stuff.

Mr Barzani, following his re-election, said he rejected UN proposals for sorting out the territorial row.

Sharon's massive stroke on Wednesday showed him a heavy favorite to win re-election to a historic third term as prime minister of Israel.

His defeat was such a foregone conclusion that he had decided the previous April not to bother seeking re-election.

Therefore, we will try to re-election of your style with a similar style to help you adjust.

All directors retire from office by rotation and are subject to re-election at an annual general meeting at least once every three years .

Its General Council, elected by the Natives will be composed of representatives of the General Council re-election chairman.

Meanwhile, with all H-P's 13 directors up for re-election at the next annual meeting, investors can voice their displeasure.

Mr. Ahmedinejad repeatedly defended his re-election, belittling charges of fraud by his opponents and their supporters.

Her sentence was issued during her re-election campaign, and she stopped campaigning. She won re-election by an overwhelming margin anyway.

In announcing her plans for re-election President Sirleaf did not mention the commission's proposed ban.

After all, they probably will not be around then, or at least, not seeking re-election.

Within months of Mr Mugabe's re-election as president, inflation had reached several billion per cent a year.

She has decided not to seek re-election, citing a desire to spend more time with her children.

Clinton declined to say whether the Obama administration will formally recognize Mr. Ahmadinejad's re-election, saying U.

One official said the president will say he won't run for re-election when his term ends in 2013.

The president of Bulgaria is directly elected for a 5-year term with the right to one re-election.

He returned to Peru in January to seek re-election after nearly nine years in exile waiting for corruption charges against him to expire.

Dowd is considered one of the chief strategists behind the president's 2004 re-election victory over Democrat John Kerry.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's green-minded governor, made a cameo appearance in the midst of his re-election campaign.

The re-election of Mr Karzai, a clear favourite in this week's vote, would in part be an expression of that desire.

But if he cannot run for re-election in 2011 his ambitious son Gamal may not be able to take over.

Now, at the outset of his 2012 re-election campaign, the cheering crowds in New York and outside the White House will disarm the critics.

Relations between Moscow and Minsk have been increasingly rocky since the Kremlin hailed Mr Lukashenka's rigged re-election four years ago.

The confrontation is seen as an embarrassment to Mr Obama, in his home city and in the middle of a re-election battle.

Now that he has decided not to run for re-election, he sees financial reform as an issue that will help define his legacy.

In a tight race Maguindanao's 300, 000 or so votes could be crucial, as they were to President Gloria Arroyo's re-election in 2004.

An unofficial 2012 re-election campaign seems to have begun.

Meanwhile, to shore up his political base, President Barack Obama might amplify the millionaire-bashing theme of his re-election campaign.

Whether Mr Bennett is a bellwether for other incumbents up for re-election remains to be seen.

If I get Dilma elected and she is good, she'll have to be a candidate for re-election.

And President Obama must gear up for a re-election fight next year, with economic recovery as his main focus.

But he is respected as a capable administrator and would have won re-election in a popular election in 2007 if one had been held.

Harry Reid, the majority leader in the Senate, is up for re-election next year and has a popularity rating of less than 50%.

All of that has helped offset weak employment numbers that would otherwise doom Mr Bush's re-election bid.

They are also split on the question of whether Mr. Obama deserves re-election, 47 percent believe he does, but another 47 percent say no.

The deal lifts, if only for a couple of months, one shadow over the economy and thus Mr Obama's re-election prospects.

Three days earlier the job market, a key determinant of his re-election chances, took a turn for the better.

Shortly after his re- election in 2004 , President Bush paid tribute to Rove as the architect of his victory over Democrat John Kerry .

Violence erupted in Minsk after Alyaksandr Lukashenka, the president of Belarus, was declared to have won re-election with 80% of the vote.

Yet Mr Nye has a tough re-election battle on his hands.

Republicans who do not face re-election this year are freer to follow their instincts, but it is not easy even for them.

He suggested that those political talks could start as early as a second four-year term if he wins re-election in 2012.

That, in turn, could improve Barack Obama's chances in a clump of states critical to his re-election.

Mr. Mahoney, who lost his re-election bid, said in an interview that the line represented 13 trips over a two-month period.

Foster and Carson will not get a long break from the campaign trail -- all 435 House seats are up for re-election in November.

Foreign Minister Yang spoke highly of the work of Margaret Chan and indicated the central government will actively support her re-election.

Massachusetts last had an open seat in 1984, when Paul Tsongas decided not to run for re-election.

All the same, the high expectations that came with the president's re-election may not be met.

And anyway, politics is supposed to be about achieving something more than your own re-election.

up for re-election next year, to convince Afghans that they are better off than they were before the Taliban were driven from power.

He recounted that the council was once summoned by Chang to support her job; it was not supposed to approve her re-election.

In 2004, George Bush's win in Ohio gave him the electoral votes he needed to surpass his Democratic rival, John Kerry, and win re-election.

But for Mr Medvedev, positioning himself for re-election means having a stable of accomplishments to his name.

"Who knows, " says Henry Healy who I meet in the pub, "we may all have to join him and raise a glass to his re-election campaign in 2012. "

He will face financial constraints imposed by the bond markets, but none of the constraints of re-election.

How did Reagan recover from his two-year doldrums and win re-election by a landslide in 1984?

Committee opposition claims that Chavez did not have cancer, a move just to gain sympathy, to seek re-election in 2012.

he has become the most unpopular president under the Fifth Republic a year away from a re-election bid.

WITH a single bold act, President Obama could correct the country's course, help assure his re-election, and preserve our children's future.

Third, Mr Yudhoyono's re-election in July gives him a mandate for the reforms Indonesia needs.

But it rallied the Democratic base ahead of the president's re-election battle next year.

Cabinet decided upon a new candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and strive to fully reflect the intention of re-election.

The rapper is Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, up for re-election, who is trying to strike a chord with youth.

However, that strategy only works if Mr Huntsman thinks Mr Obama is going to win re-election.

Churlish, perhaps, but it worked: on Tuesday Mr Puckett won his own re-election battle.

If he is lucky, the economy may have turned decisively in time for re-election, though the jobless rate will remain critical to the outcome.

An improving economy is crucial to the president's re-election chances, says Brookings analyst Thomas Mann.

He will be able to stand for re-election for a second and final three-year term in 2012.

Of the 435 seats up (the entire House), 393 are occupied by an incumbent seeking re-election (236 Dems, 157 Republicans).

He'll probably face the President in combat, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hard-liner who's expected to seek re-election.

But with his 1996 re-election race approaching, advisers suggested that the Clintons holiday somewhere with a less elitist reputation.

What's important now is to get both back on track. The time left until people run back home to campaign for re-election is dwindling fast.

and indeed, when he runs for re-election in 2010, those thousands of extra ex-felon votes will only do him good.

Two years later Mr Bush won re-election with more votes than any previous presidential candidate.

The operation will boost Obama's drooping popularity and give him a springboard from which to launch his 2012 re-election campaign.

But some pundits are pointing to the sluggish economy as a potential threat to President Bush's re-election chances.

Andwith US politicians up for re-election in November, many Congressmenfelt their futures were at stake on this vote.

He was seeking re-election. His opponent was a lawyer from the newly established Republican Party.

Mr. Kennedy's first foray into politics came in 1958, while still a law student, when he managed John's Senate re-election campaign.

HE HAS plumbed new lows as the most unpopular French president in the Fifth Republic ahead of a re-election bid.

But later that year, Sobchak, damaged by a perception of ineffectiveness and rumors of corruption, lost his re-election bid.

Mr Goolsbee is expected to advise Mr Obama, from Chicago, during the president's re-election campaign next year.

The real challenge for a man who faces re-election in 2012, and is said to harbour ambitions to lead his party, will be economic.

David Axelrod, whose reputation for political genius never included organization, will leave to begin working on the re-election campaign.

Delaware's youngest-serving soon became the longest-serving, with Biden winning re-election in his home state six times.

History suggests President Obama is a favorite for re-election, but by no means a sure thing.

Iran's supreme leader has formally the second-term presidency of , despite a wide-spread dispute over his re-election.

Millions of jobs are the cost of doing business with China, according to dozens of members of Congress seeking re-election.

If he decides not to seek re-election, Idahoans will probably pick another Republican.

President Robert Mugabe launched his re-election campaign on Sunday accusing Tsvangirai of extensive political violence.

The scorn that greens, who are mostly Democrat, increasingly show him is a bigger threat to his re-election hopes.

Poll showed that 55 percent of Americans expected the Republicans to regain the White House, while 37% think Obama will win re-election.

The sustained growth has helped make Democratic Party candidate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono the favorite to win re-election.

Mr Mugabe, for his part, insists that the opposition recognise his flawed re-election.

The Democratic Party was led by President Franklin Pierce. Pierce wanted to run for re-election.

For the first time since her re-election last September Mrs Merkel seemed, if briefly, to be in charge.

He presided over boom times and made an oft-repeated promise in his 1996 re-election campaign to build a bridge to the 21st century.

He has long trailed in the polls, but the gap appears to be narrowing, giving his government a fighting chance of re-election.

Rogge, 67, a Belgian surgeon and former Olympian, has just won-re-election to a second and final term as head of the IOC until 2013.

Every two years all the congressmen stand for re-election.

Obama's re-election chances hinge heavily on his ability to reduce the stubbornly high unemployment rate.

The bill is seen by opposers as helpful to the president's re-election as it allocates more seats to poor areas where he is popular.

Even victory in the first Gulf war was not enough to secure the elder George Bush re-election in 1992.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's incumbent president, convincingly won re-election, according to unofficial "quick-count" projections.

It's no wonder Kenya's president felt able to rig his re-election.

It has already frittered away half of its second term since Mr Singh won re-election in 2009.

Honduras is to hold presidential elections in November. The country's 1982 constitution bans Mr. Zelaya's re-election.

Yet most Western governments seem keen to downplay Mr Meles's human-rights record, hoping his re-election will keep his country stable.

Correspondents say the reforms are expected to boost President Joseph Kabila's chances of re-election in November.

Sabas Pretelt, a former interior minister, is charged with bribing a congressman to vote to let Mr Uribe run for re-election in 2006.

But a weakened President Hamid Karzai, facing re-election in 2009, is unlikely to embark on radical reform.

'I believe if he tackles this problem, it will improve his chances of re-election.

Only thus can he summon up a populist wave for himself and ride it to re-election.

Golkar, the biggest party in the present DPR, had its origins as a vehicle for the re-election of Suharto.

Its charter is to re-election in this purpose of accreditation agency to build a mutual recognition agreement network.

It is also unlikely that, if he were triumphantly reinstated, Mr. Zelaya would give up his re-election scheme.

With three months to go until his re-election, the Republican governor is mounting a comeback.

The reform allows Mr. Chavez to seek re-election for a third term in a planned 2012 vote.

Orum says the president's announcement will likely help his re-election effort in Florida and other states with large immigrant populations.

As pollster Bill McInturff observes, the average US consumer confidence index when a president wins re-election is 95.

He has Afghanistan to focus on, not to mention his own re-election.

He remained a member of Parliament until 1964 when he chose not to seek re-election.

The superstar of 2008, who once looked like a shoo-in for re-election, now appears extremely vulnerable.

The Senate marches to a different drum than the House does, with senators facing re-election only every six years, not every two.

The current governor, Republican Arnold Schwarzenneger, is barred by term limits from re-election.

Phillip Puckett, a Democratic state senator, declared, "I don't plan to support President Obama for re-election. "

he should adopt a more conciliatory tone if he wins re-election next June.

In a new interview, President Obama said that killing Osama bin Laden does not secure his 2012 re-election.

And his need to fight for re-election at home seems almost certain to distract his attention from the task.

President Obama does not stand for re-election until two thousand twelve.

Bush and Kerry had a close election in October. Finally Bush won re-election.

Earlier this month he easily won re-election to his third full term.

Vote out the guy running for re-election if you want the American middle class to come back.

Before the worry that Karzai may be by way of amending the constitution to seek re-election.

Some MPs have returned money or decided not to seek re-election; a minister has quit.

As my first term as the president of Liberia comes to an end, I will be standing for re-election.

In the United States, President Obama will be running for re-election.

All other directors, excluding Hooper, will be presenting themselves for re-election at the AGM.

The verdict throws more uncertainty into the Republican rocky re-election bid.

Amy Klobuchar, the state's senior senator, is up for re-election in 2012; Mr Franken will face a tough fight in 2014.

Against this, Mr Schwarzenegger still managed to win re-election in 2006, and he has doggedly clung to the centre.

Lawmakers facing re-election next year will find China a convenient scapegoat for bad economic data.

President van Rompuy is up for re-election next June.

The link with politically active evangelical Protestants is crucial to Bush's hopes of re-election.

This makes him a rare bird, for most Democrats running for re-election are staying mum or apologising for their votes for reform.

Its black-yellow coalition is up for re-election.

On any given day, a club member could be out of a job because a senator loses re-election, retires or resigns.

Mr Ban is hoping for re-election; indeed, he keeps score of the miles he travels and the hands he shakes.

Mr Blatter is seeking re-election next month, but is challenged by Mohammed bin Hammam, who led the Qatar bid.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that he will not seek re-election in polls in January.

Were he speaking in 2010, a European leader seeking re-election as well as reform might just fancy his chances.

In the other corner is Congress, where a third of the Senate and the whole of the House face re-election in exactly one month's time.

The other conducted by the ABC poll showed that over half of people want the Republicans in Congress to win re-election.

About 44% of Americans say they are more likely to vote Republican next year than for Obama's re-election.

Mr. Karzai's political opponents have criticized the move, saying it is intended to improve his chances of re-election.

So Benin became the first African country where an incumbent ran for re-election, lost and graciously bowed out.

Members of the US House of Representatives have gone home to campaign for re-election.

But this week, President Obama also announced his plans to seek re-election in November of next year.

Manmohan Singh, the 76-year-old prime minister who has just won re-election, is a charmingly intellectual and courtly figure.

The 70-year-old white politician admits he faces pretty tough odds in what he says will be his last bid for re-election.

Importantly, Mr Singh's first remarks upon re- election emphasised stability and the value of India's secular vision.

Ban Ki-Moon's re-election required the approval of all five permanent members of the Security Council.

He says his re-election campaign will begin immediately after the parliamentary vote.

He added that the TV pictures "translated into votes" that helped Lindsay win re-election in November 1969.

But the Congress-led coalition that took power in 2004 and won re-election this year has shown no great enthusiasm for privatisation.

One victory claimed by Mr. Lewis on Wednesday was his re-election to the board with 67. 3% of the vote.

Meanwhile, Obama's trip is also a plus for its political future, he seeks re-election is an important layout. 2012 U.

History suggests that presidents who maintain job approvals around 50 percent usually win re-election.

By 44% to 40%, Americans now say they are more likely to vote Republican next year than for Mr. Obama's re-election.

But when Mr Steele's term expires in January, his chances of re-election seem negligible.

In February he convincingly won re-election 25 years after winning power in a civil war.

He also wished Obama good luck in his bid for re-election next year.

The president, Mwai Kibaki, says he won a surprise re-election last month.

Ineligible for re-election, Mr. da Silva groomed Ms. Rousseff as his successor.

The women with reserved seats might also think their re-election hopes slim.

"His re-election is a very clear sign [that he will get some job], " said one Chinese economist.

In the 2004 case, Bush's re-election probability climbed back to 54 within minutes as profit-seeking traders spotted the free money.

Certainly, continuing to promise low taxes for 98% of the country will help his newly launched 2012 re-election campaign.

"He won't behave irresponsibly but he doesn't plan to stand for re-election, " said one friend.

Then again, the senator is not seeking re-election.

Only recently the mayor's re-election seemed a foregone conclusion.

Jack Conway, the state's Democratic attorney-general, cruised to re-election this week by 10 points.

Obama raised $750 million for the 2008 campaign and hopes to top that for his re-election.

Unemployment is falling, but not as quickly as Obama hoped. This threatens his re-election chances.

In America federal judges are as well. But in 39 states some or all judges must face election and re-election, often with unbecoming hoopla.

Were he speakingin 2010, a European leader seeking re-election as well as reform might just fancy his chances.

For President Barack Obama, who would face re-election in 2012, the dour prospects are unwelcome news.

But by 1984 job creation was on a roll and Mr Reagan romped to re-election.

This time he consistently led his PP rival, Mariano Rajoy, and duly won re-election on March 9th.

Today, we usher in the fifth class squadron re-election committee.

But the party strolled to re-election nine months later.

And George Bush will surely not want a nuclear crisis to disrupt his hopes for re-election in November.

Incumbent presidents, on the whole, win re-election.

Currently prohibited from re-election when his term expires in 2013, Mr Saleh would stay in power.

Mr Kaczynski was trailing badly in the re-election race due in October.

And about whether President Obama will win re-election.

In 1936 Roosevelt stood for re-election. He promised further control over big business.

He also, presumably, would prefer to face re-election in 2012 without bearing sole responsibility for another war in the Arab world.

Washington is also suspicious the entire exercise is designed to aid Chens re-election campaign, prompting Bushs strong message on Tuesday.

At the same time, dozens of election in the election of unsuccessful candidates accused of deceptive, requirements to re-election.

For Mr Obama's standing and hopes of re-election: between bad and dire.

Mr Obama is facing re-election before an electorate that has time and again claimed an entitlement to cheap energy.

These Republican advances could also hinder Mr Obama's re-election campaign in 2012.

Facing a tough re-election bid next spring, the French president has to show that he is in charge.

In January, Ma Ying-jeou, the incumbent, will seek re-election after four years in office.

As Mr Nutter said during his re-election victory speech, "we are not done yet" .

When George Bush narrowly won re-election in 2004, it was a whopping 48. 3%.

The challenge will be to maintain that position into the re-election year of 2012.

In 2004, Mr Chen won re-election only after being shot on the eve of the poll.

It needs to be more than a re-election ruse.

Barack Obama will focus on only one issue in 2012: winning re-election.

Since World War II only two elected U. S. presidents have lost re-election - Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H. W. Bush in 1992.

This is after all the start of his 2012 re-election campaign.

George Bush won re-election in 2004 by emphasising "God, gays and guns" .

Barack Obama, facing a tough re-election campaign in 2012, may well sign it.

He added: "This isn't a jobs plan. It's a re-election plan. "

And I am not just talking about re-election in 2012.