As it happened, though, Mr Obama tended not to wear the flag during the election campaign.
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Put simply, the Front was successful in compromising the election campaign and corrupting its results.
How he responds could be critical and might change the way the election campaign is fought.
All simulations have shown him losing the likely runoff since the beginning of the election campaign.
During the election campaign, the Liberal Democrats denounced the position but their stance has since changed.
In contrast, Obama stuck with his core campaign tenets right throughout the election campaign.
Mr Dulaimi was only one of several prominent Sunnis to be murdered during the election campaign.
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That implies the issue will not figure much in the final phase of the election campaign.
But it was one of the few moments of real excitement during the election campaign.
Meanwhile tax increases, almost certainly beyond anything indicated in the election campaign, will also curb demand.
Brazil's new IMF agreement is aimed at steadying the real during and beyond the election campaign.
Doubtless the election campaign will see much claim and counterclaim about which firm's methods are best.
Another is to take measures to prevent abuse of government resources in the election campaign.
It describes Mr Straw's plans as "perhaps the cheapest proposal of the election campaign".
But, by that time, Mr Tang had himself become an issue in the election campaign.
However, it would be more politically acceptable to make any moves before or after the election campaign.
His huge public rallies during the election campaign were full of sometimes foul-mouthed rants against the system.
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During the election campaign, Mr Maduro played his best card: his appointment by Mr Chavez as his successor.
Time out, that is, for the election campaign in which the Republicans will proclaim themselves the anti-terrorism party.
In the election campaign, too, he stole the opposition's thunder by promising humbler, cleaner and more responsive government.
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He had worked for the election campaign of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who introduced him to Lauder, 54.
If the intifada continues during the election campaign, Mr Barak will be tempted to strike back ever harder.
This agenda reflects the election campaign of 2010 in which matters of national security featured not at all.
He campaigned three times here during the election campaign in '06, and each time he had huge crowds.
During the election campaign he laid out ambitious plans to hire extra teachers.
The spike in attacks during the election campaign is evidence enough of that.
Their real crime seems to have been a failure to support the president vigorously enough during the election campaign.
Since the final weeks of the election campaign, Lula has worked hard to turn investor panic into mere wariness.
Tackling domestic abuse was a key pledge during the election campaign of Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne.
And then there is Russia: still a huge issue, though one that went almost unmentioned during the election campaign.
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