The younger Gilani is running as a candidate for the Pakistan People's Party, one of the three parties the Taliban has said it is focusing on.
Biden himself touched on this when he was in the running as a presidential candidate.
Whatever one thinks about marriage between people of the same sex, surely a man running as a business-friendly candidate would say whether he favors boycotts of privately owned businesses on the basis of the beliefs of their shareholders?
Raul Alfonsin, a former president now running a poor second as the Alliance's candidate in Buenos Aires province, has spent most of the last two years sniping from the sidelines.
And just this week CNN reported that a candidate for the Swiss Parliament is running as part of the APPP party (Anti PowerPoint Party).
It is difficult for a candidate to pick someone as a running mate who is far to the right but still maintains credibility with centrist voters.
Even when a candidate chooses a running mate who is perceived as weak--like George H.
And this President is running for reelection and fully intends to carry out his role as a candidate and to win reelection.
His main rivals for the job are Rudolf Shuster, the government's candidate, and Magda Vasaryova, a glamorous former actress running as an independent.
As you know, you have a woman running for president and you have a candidate African-American that it's very important to see if this country is ready for a change.
The Republican governor is running for a second term in November, although his name is often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate.
Fitzgerald gained a reputation on the campaign trail as the stealth candidate, often ducking reporters' questions at public events and running a low-key, under-the-radar campaign.
Romney, even as a candidate, should show some leadership, show he knows the difference between running an investment firm and leading a country.
He is now talked of as a possible running-mate for (and successor to) Ms Rousseff in 2014, or an opposition candidate in 2018 a politically profitable ambiguity.
Four years ago, when then presidential candidate Barack Obama picked Delaware senator Joe Biden as his running mate, it seemed to be a case of an intellectual, analytical senator, lawyer, and academician with lots of gravitas wanting a genial, unrehearsed, speak-your-mind kind of political partner to balance the scale.
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Mr Lieberman, Al Gore's running-mate in 2000 and a strong supporter of the war in Iraq, said he would stand as an independent candidate in the mid-term elections, potentially splintering the state's Democratic vote.
In the end, Mitt Romney must overcome his weaknesses as a candidate by what he does on the campaign trail, not by who he picks as his running mate.
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