Joe the Plumber made headlines during the 2008 presidential campaign by asking then-candidate Obama a difficult question.
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In 2007, after all, he criticised then-candidate Obama for vowing to strike al-Qaeda in Pakistan if necessary.
During his initial campaign for president, then-candidate Obama decried the unfairness that oil companies were making record profits in tough economic times.
But in 1992, then-candidate Bill Clinton's campaign slogan in the United States, "It's the economy, stupid, " caught on precisely because it highlighted such an obvious, important truth.
Since 2008, when then-candidate Obama was first challenged on his anti-Israel friends, pastors and positions, Goldberg has willingly used his pen to defend Obama to the American Jewish community.
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Lest we not forget that it was Iraqi leaders in 2008 that said -- they also not just in the SOFA, but there was discussion obviously by Prime Minister Maliki about a timetable for transition that was enormously similar to that proposed by then-candidate Obama.
So spoke then-presidential candidate Barack Obama before an adoring crowd last July in Berlin, Germany.
Then-Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich asked for a recount because of suspicions that optically scanned ballots unfairly favored Hillary Clinton.
It's true that Volcker talked to the President about issues like this as far back as the financial regulatory speech the then-presidential candidate gave in the spring of 2008.
Cordier gained some notoriety during the 2004 presidential campaign when he participated in the swift boat ads against then-Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
As a then-Green Party candidate, she had little TV time and a modest funding to promote her views, thus counting almost exclusively on the internet to reach voters.
He would make, if not a sure-fire Russian presidential candidate in his own right, then the ideal running-mate for any Russian conservative or nationalist seeking to succeed Boris Yeltsin.
Kennedy's early support for Obama was considered a boon for the candidate, then a first-term senator from Illinois locked in a tough primary battle against former first lady Hillary Clinton.
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It's about time the concept of taxing all income at a single rate, which presidential candidate Steve Forbes and then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey broached a decade ago, once again takes center stage.
And there is talk of open primaries in which people vote irrespective of their party affiliation, and then elect a candidate in a run-off between the top two vote-getters, whether from the same party or not.
The health care activist, who died from breast cancer six years after first being diagnosed with the disease, gained national attention in 2004 as the wife of Democratic Party vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, then a U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
Commentators warn that if the Lebanese Parliament does not elect a pro-Syrian presidential candidate next week, then Lahoud is liable to call general elections.
Then there is the Democratic candidate's get-out-the-vote effort.
"It was going to become a more competitive county no matter what, but then you had a dynamic of a young, good-looking candidate who was also a good, dynamic fundraiser and the moment was right, " he said.
Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Yar'Adua's southern deputy, who became acting president in February as the country grew impatient, has already been sworn in and will soon appoint a vice-president, who may then be groomed as next year's candidate.
McCain's credibility went down the tubes when the 72-year-old candidate offered the slogan "America First, " and then picked Palin as his potential successor.
The concept is simple: If no candidate receives a majority on the initial ballot, then the top two vote-getters face off in a run-off.
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This past week, the Obama who supported gay marriage when running for Illinois legislature, then flipped against it as candidate for president, flopped once more to serve his re-election.
And then there is the all-important senior voting block, one that tends to favor the Republican candidate in presidential elections.
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Washington (CNN) -- It was 2002, and things weren't going well for Mitt Romney, then a candidate for Massachusetts governor.
Then Obama responds, with an ad mocking McCain as an out-of-touch, computer-illiterate candidate who can't possibly understand your problems.
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And that's why then-Senator Obama released his tax records going back I think six or seven years when he was a candidate for President in the 2008 election cycle.
And that network TV would mistakenly award that state to one candidate, then equally mistakenly award it to the other and then finally declare it a toss-up subject to a recount?
Then came the nasty shock of the Liberal Democrat victory in the Brent East by-election in which the Conservative candidate came a poor third.
He says if a candidate is seen as anti-immigrant it matters to Latinos who are American citizens, who then perceive him as unfriendly and intolerant.
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