President Obama's renomination will be confirmed next week at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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But McKinney has a loyal base of support, and she has to be considered the favorite for renomination.

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And the Republican-led Senate is refusing to hold confirmation hearings on the renomination of vice chairman Roger Ferguson.

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It is very rare for a first-term officeholder to lose a bid for renomination in his own party.

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Edward Kennedy for renomination and defeated for re-election in an Electoral College landslide.

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But the current FEC chairman, David Mason, has been left out in the cold, his renomination dropped without explanation by the White House.

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This week France won the reappointment of Pierre de Boissieu as boss of the Council secretariat, and Spain the renomination of Javier Solana as foreign-policy supremo.

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Halligan's 2012 renomination languished without action, typical of an election year, when confirmations for a variety of political and practical reasons are given a lower legislative priority.

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And I think, again, this is an important opportunity to demonstrate greater stability in our overall system by approving his renomination for another term at the Fed.

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Less known is that after each term the voters tossed out his party, first with him on the ticket, then after his party rejected his bid for renomination.

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Vice President Dick Cheney, after accepting his party's renomination, gave a nod to the pulling-up-by-the-bootstraps topic when he mentioned that his grandparents had lived in a railroad car.

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