The successful candidate for this role is a team-oriented professional with excellent communication skills, comfortable in a fast-paced environment, and possessing good testing and programming skills.

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John Edwards, D-North Carolina, a successful trial lawyer and potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, got a seat on the Judiciary committee -- a high profile perch for battling White House judicial nominations.

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Tunisia, for example, now seems the most likely candidate to make a successful transition from authoritarian rule to truly representative government.

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The debate over the size of government has been raging for decades, but Ronald Reagan in his successful 1980 race may have been the last presidential candidate to campaign on it as a dividing line between the parties.

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This year, GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain has explicitly endorsed for the U.S. the enormously successful personal account system adopted in Chile 30 years ago.

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It was 50 years ago that a young candidate for president came here to Michigan and delivered a speech that inspired one of the most successful service projects in American history.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at Michigan Commencement