The prime minister put himself top of the candidate list and was reportedly expecting 3m-4m preference votes.
We started by asking our editors and reporters to create a candidate list of two-dozen people known for their close relationship to the almighty dollar.
Kelly Ayotte, another of those believed to be on Romney's vice president candidate search list.
Under the plans, key constituencies would have to select their candidate from the list.
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However, she had been approved as a list candidate for the Scottish Parliamentary election in 2011 but was not elected.
Voters do have the option of casting a second ballot, for a specific candidate from the list of their chosen party.
Finally, another one of my clients told me he had dropped a very promising candidate from his list of potential hires because she had taken out her PDA to check her email while he paid the bill.
Whether Nigeria can afford to hire him on a permanent or temporary basis may depend on their ability to cover that kind of salary, but it may be a gamble worth taking on the "wily old fox" - as Russia coach and fellow Nigerian wish-list candidate Guus Hiddink referred to him.
Ford is an unlikely candidate for any historic list, as he took over from Richard Nixon after his resignation and wouldn't be re-elected in 1976.
Instead, they are replaced by another candidate from the party list.
We presented each candidate with the same list of questions on the Iraq war, the war on terror, immigration, taxation, international trade and other crucial matters that the next U.S. president will likely face.
The commission recommends that top-up member vacancies, which are unlikely to be more than two or three a parliament, should be filled by the candidate next on the list of the party holding the seat.
Its general secretary is Robert Griffiths, a candidate on the south Wales central list.
The name of the preferred candidate will come top of the list and the governor is expected to choose him.
Using those guidelines, we eventually came up with a list of more than 100 candidate tools.
As a mayoral candidate, Barkat has assembled a candidates list for his party comprised of members of the Likud, the Gil Pensioners Party, the Green Party and Labor.
He said Americans should put leadership at the top of the list of qualities in a presidential candidate.
Nor was he among the young stars there put forth as a candidate for our 30 Under 30 in Media list.
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It even applied to taking out Saddam Hussein, America's prime candidate for removal before Bin Laden headed the wanted list.
Lurking near the top of the list of running mates for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Rubio is seen by many in the GOP as the key to the Latino vote.
The meeting heard that anyone who had been a candidate for a year should have built up a list of 1, 500 e-mail addresses which can be used to boost campaigning and make it easy for people to make small donations using a similar system to the "JustGiving" charity website.
To illustrate his point, Toro uses the examples of Ollanta Humala in Peru and Venezuelan presidential opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski. (To this list, we could also add Fernando Lugo in Paraguay).
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India, a nation that has earned a reputation for churning out some of the wealthiest billionaires in Asia, if not on the planet, has curiously enough, never produced a candidate in the top 100 ranks of the annual Global 2000 list of biggest publicly-traded companies.
Every campaign has compiled a list of the people who are likely to support their candidate.
Back in 2010, Mike Lee, a Republican candidate in Utah, did the same thing, though his list included e-mail addresses and was sent out digitally.
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Independent candidate Michael Maye and National Front candidate Dave Owen, both of whom stood in 2009, complete the list.
Once candidate sites for World Heritage status have been placed on the UK Tentative List they are invited to put forward a more detailed case for nomination and participate in a Technical Evaluation.
Last week, Rhode Island coach and former RU assistant Danny Hurley turned down an offer from Rutgers and Jordan, who was a candidate the previous two times Rutgers had openings, went to the top of the list.
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Four years from now, another candidate (or two) will likely ask you to sign up for some type of list, be it in app form or something else, to learn the identity of their running mate.
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To determine the rankings, we started with a list of the largest metropolitan areas in the continental U.S. Thirty-five candidate cities were chosen based on availability of data and geographic diversity.
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