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Dan Debicella

Debicella acted as the Fairfield County regional chair for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign.

Edward Parke Custis Lewis

He was also a delegate to the 1880 Democratic National Convention and a member of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee in 1884, when he was active in the presidential campaign of Grover Cleveland.

Jim Forsythe

On June 8, 2011, Forsythe was announced as New Hampshire Campaign Chairman for the presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul.

Rod Parsley

Parsley personally endorsed the presidential campaign of Republican nominee John McCain, who called Parsley a "spiritual guide".

Sean Parlaman

He was able to secure government grants, to become a member of the Oregon steering committee of the 2000 Green Party Presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, and to get permission from Stephen King to make Stud City, a short, independent sequel to Stand by Me.

Young Americans for Liberty

Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) is a 501(c)(4) political organization that was formed in 2008 at the end of Congressman Ron Paul's presidential campaign.


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Asheville Zombie Walk

During the 2008 presidential campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin made a campaign appearance in Asheville on World Zombie Day.

Bill Baroni

He was a driver for Assembly Speaker Chuck Haytaian in his campaign for U.S. Senator against Frank Lautenberg in 1994 and worked on the advance staff for the 1996 presidential campaign of Steve Forbes.

Brit Hume

He was assigned to report on Walter Mondale's presidential campaign during 1984 and Vice President George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign.

Charles Nolan

Nolan was the lead designer at Anne Klein from 2001 until 2003, when he resigned to volunteer for the Howard Dean 2004 presidential campaign.

Cleveland, North Carolina

It is named after Cleveland, England, but it is rumored that the town is actually named after Grover Cleveland after he visited the town during his presidential campaign.

Corie C. Whalen

Concurrent to her work with the Boston Tea Party Freedom Rally, Whalen became an organizer for Congressman Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign in Massachusetts and was also involved in launching the Boston Ron Paul Meetup Group.

Dayton Duncan

In politics, Duncan served as chief of staff to New Hampshire governor Hugh Gallen; deputy national press secretary for Walter Mondale's presidential campaign in 1984; and national press secretary for Michael Dukakis's 1988 presidential campaign.

Drinkmore Cafe

Owned and run by software executive Scott Kennedy, The Drinkmore was the headquarters of Seattle Wireless and was the Howard Dean meetup spot during his 2004 presidential campaign.

Duda Mendonça

His work in the 2002 presidential campaign for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was widely praised by professionals for its effectiveness.

Eileen Gunn

"Fellow Americans" (1991) posits an alternate history in which Barry Goldwater hired Roger Ailes to run his 1964 presidential campaign, and Richard Nixon became the host of a TV game show called Tricky Dick.

Ellen Moran

Moran's political experience includes managing campaigns for governor, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House of Representatives; working on the national campaign staff of Tom Harkin’s 1992 presidential campaign; helping plan both Clinton inaugurals; and conducting international democracy work in Indonesia for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Emily O'Reilly

O'Reilly is the author of three books: Candidate: The Truth Behind the Presidential Campaign (1991),

Fatemeh Karroubi

Fatemeh Karroubi campaigned openly with her husband during the 2009 presidential campaign, drawing comparisons to another high profile political spouse, Zahra Rahnavard, the wife of Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Hipólito Mejía

Mejía's first presidential campaign in 2000 won him the first Dominican presidency under then new electoral rules that required a "50 más 1" (50 percent plus one of the total votes in order to win in the first voting round.) This was in stark contrast to the late PRD leader, José Francisco Peña Gómez, who unsuccessfully ran for office three times consecutively (1990, 1994 and 1996) and never received the support that Mejia received in his first attempt.

Jack Olsen

As Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward write in their book All The President's Men, the book was one of several checked out of the White House library by E. Howard Hunt in the course of gathering information about Kennedy to potentially be used against him in the 1972 presidential campaign.

Jackie Norris

In 1998, Norris served as finance director for Governor Tom Vilsack’s gubernatorial campaign in Iowa and as Iowa state political director on Al Gore’s 2000 Presidential campaign.

James Scheibel

A graduate of Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, he worked as a community organizer, as aide to former mayor Lawrence D. Cohen, as national organizer for the Fred R. Harris Presidential campaign in 1976 and as deputy director for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).

Jeff Dwire

He also counseled Clinton concerning the draft, decisions involving which would become a major issue in his presidential campaign.

Jim Hightower

After managing the presidential campaign of former Senator Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma in 1976, he returned to Texas to become the editor of the magazine The Texas Observer.

Karen Hicks

Hicks has worked as Deputy National Field Director for the Democratic National Committee, including John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004, and for Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Labour Party of Britain (2005).

Lance Liebman

They have two sons, Benjamin L. Liebman, the Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and the director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, and Jeffrey B. Liebman who is a professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and currently served as an economic advisor to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Lawrence Di Rita

Di Rita was Policy Director to the 1996 Presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Phil Gramm and Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison from 1996 until 2001.

Louis E. Martin

Originally recruited by R. Sargent Shriver, Martin joined the 1960 Presidential campaign of Senator John F. Kennedy.

Mark Salter

He is portrayed as a sympathetic figure by actor Jamey Sheridan in the 2012 HBO production of Game Change (film) for his role in the latter months of McCain's unsuccessful 2008 Presidential campaign.

Mary Tillotson

She covered the 1984 presidential campaign, including the Democratic National Convention, and the 1988 Republican and Democratic National Conventions, as well as the 1992 presidential campaign; she also covered two international summits between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Massachusetts liberal

Being "soft on crime"; specifically,an example of this was the infamous Willie Horton incident, which was referenced by George H. W. Bush's Presidential campaign against Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis in the 1988 Presidential election.

Mike Bond

Bond was a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in Montana in 1982, and served in Al Gore's 2000 Presidential campaign as head of Colorado Business Leaders for Gore and as a spokesman in several western states (Colorado, Utah, and Oregon) for Gore environmental positions.

Mitt Romney dog incident

In August 2012, the band Devo released a single called "Don't Roof Rack Me, Bro (Seamus Unleashed)", to keep the incident in the news as the presidential campaign moved to a conclusion.

Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

Future U.S. President Bill Clinton, then a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, organized and participated in the demonstration in England; this later became an issue in his Presidential campaign.

Nina Easton

On November 27, 2004 she married Russell Schriefer, a Republican political strategist who was the senior advisor to the 2012 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.

North Plainfield High School

Steve Schmidt (born 1970, class of 1988), senior campaign strategist and advisor to the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator John McCain.

North Plainfield, New Jersey

Steve Schmidt (born 1970), senior campaign strategist to the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator John McCain.

Paul Desmarais

French President Nicolas Sarkozy came under fire after allegations that his presidential campaign was illegally funded by Liliane Bettencourt, L'Oréal heiress and France's wealthiest woman.

Presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Opposition Congresswoman Elisa Carrió, a likely candidate in the upcoming 2011 presidential campaign, has raised the possibility of impeachment procedures against Mrs. Kirchner.

President of the United States

The modern presidential campaign begins before the primary elections, which the two major political parties use to clear the field of candidates before their national nominating conventions, where the most successful candidate is made the party's nominee for president.

Priya David

She has also worked for KTVU in the San Francisco Bay Area as a reporter for Mornings on 2 and other news shows, and for MSNBC as an embedded presidential campaign reporter in 2004 - covering Dick Gephardt's presidential campaign and Dick Cheney's re-election bid, as well.

Regena Thomas

Thomas said she did any political work in her spare time and in 2004 she took a multimonth leave of absence to "recharge her batteries." Thomas also spent part of this leave working on the presidential campaign of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.

Robert Cunningham Humphreys

For the 1936 election year, he was assigned by INS to Topeka, Kansas and the Alf Landon presidential campaign.

Robert W. MacDonald

MacDonald pulled a similar prank later during the 1960 presidential campaign when John F. Kennedy was the featured speaker at a rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Rockline

Notable non-musical guests include then Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton with running mate, then-United States Senator from Tennessee Al Gore during their presidential campaign in 1992; and on December 16, 1993 radio superstar Howard Stern, the latter of whom was promoting his New Year's Eve Pay-per-view special.

Sam Yoon

Yoon’s consultants include: Jim Spencer, of the Campaign Network, a direct mail specialist who was the chief strategist on Yoon’s city council runs; Jeff Hewitt, a media specialist who was his lead fundraising consultant; Joe Trippi, a social networking specialist who was the former campaign manager for Howard Dean's Presidential Campaign.

Star route scandal

Garfield's investigation revealed among the major players involved were some of the large contractors, the ex-US Representative Bradley Barlow of Vermont, the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, Thomas J. Brady, some of the subordinates in the department, and Arkansas Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, who became Secretary of the Republican National Committee during James A. Garfield's 1880 presidential campaign.

Sunnyside Garden Arena

It was also the site of political rallies, including a 1960 visit by then senator, John F. Kennedy on his presidential campaign.

Taryn Southern

On July 2, 2007, she released a comedic YouTube video called Hott4Hill in support of the presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton.

The FredCast

In 2007 Bernstein was able to retain the rights to the name The FredCast after it was being used for Fred Thompson's presidential campaign.

Timothy Hwang

He began his work in politics working as a field organizer for the 2008 Barack Obama Presidential campaign and other local races, eventually serving as the head of the High School Democrats in Maryland, supporting the election efforts of Frank Kratovil, Chris Van Hollen, and Donna Edwards.

Wide area information server

In 1992, the presidential campaign of Ross Perot used WAIS as a campaign wide information system, connecting the field offices to the national office.

Wolé Parks

Aside from acting, Parks is involved in political debate and is an active member of the group Democracy for NYC (DFNYC), a grassroots political group formed by former members of Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.

Yegor Lavroff

So far a President of the Dominican Republic Leonel Fernández enjoyed the support of the "ELPA" during the last presidential campaign in the country, as well as a current Member of Parliament Gerardo Bogaert.