Both campaigned on a change in government.

President Bush ran in 2000 on a platform promising a humble foreign policy.

The presidential campaign of Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, claims there are over 1,800 blogs that support him.

Barack Obama promised from the campaign trail that We have no quarrel with the Iranian people.

During his election campaign, and after his victory, Sharif expressed a determination to make peace with India.

In the French presidential election, both candidates tried to keep their domestic life separate from their campaign.

President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro during a campaign event.

In 2007, many people wrote off his campaign, but he had the skills to resurrect it and capture the Republican nomination.

What's more likely that Arnold had a little extraterrestrial help in his run for the governorship?

President elect Barack Obama made the plight of the middle class a central plank of his successful campaign.

In the book, Obama expounds on many of the subjects that became part of his 2008 campaign for the presidency.

However, his campaign has been hinting that, if elected, Moussavi will loosen some social and cultural restrictions.

Tensions have also been on the rise since Ahmedinejad fulfilled his campaign promise to enforce Islamic strictures on social life.

On June 5, 2013, during his presidential election campaign, Rouhani promised he would hand over the monitoring of cultural matters to the people, and he questioned how any individual censor could fairly judge a film s religious violations.

But as his campaign unfolded, he demonstrated that he possessed the powers to lead both soft and hard.

He campaigned in 1960 on a promise to get the country moving again.

Not only did he successfully use networks in his campaign he has continued to use the Internet to reach out to citizens.

He campaigned on the theme that he is different from other politicians and will deliver real change.

The PRI s candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, holds an insurmountable lead late in the campaign.

During his campaign, Morales made clear his intention to increase state control over national gas and oil.

To make his point, Lapid even launched his electoral campaign in Ariel, an Israeli city built in the heartland of the Palestinian West bank.

Senators manage a roughly 100 member staff, and a campaign staff of several hundreds.

He announced that he had hired Eyal Arad, a well known Israeli spin doctor, to run his presidential campaign.

Even he acknowledges that this will require him to delay fulfilling several other campaign promises.

Obama s rhetoric during his 2008 campaign and the first months of his presidency was both inspirational in style and transformational in objective.

For these Europeans, Barack Obama, campaigning under the banner of hope, is the ideal choice to restore, as if by magic, America s soft power.

Finally, he must act on his campaign promises to build a more prosperous and confident Korea.

Wade had campaigned as an agent of change, but change never came to Senegal throughout his decade in power.

During his campaign, Obama demonstrated these skills in his calm response to crises, his forward looking vision, and his superb organizational ability.

More strength for our Viennese blood, one of his election slogans, gives an idea of Strache s typical tone.

Given this, it would not be surprising if Obama and others in his administration were seeking non economic issues to energize his campaign.

Leadership and commitment are what is required, and Obama s Yes, we can campaign has already shown that he has both.

Chirac is alleged to have employed municipal civil servants when he was the mayor of Paris, 20 years ago, as aides in his electoral campaign.

The landslide election of Shinzo Abe, who campaigned on a robust defense platform, may well lead to a serious Japanese push to invigorate the country s military capabilities.

Obama has made it a campaign issue to criticize the Bush administration for neglecting Afghanistan and diverting resources needed there to the misguided war in Iraq.

Back in early February 2012, Vladimir Putin published the fourth op ed of his presidential campaign a lengthy treatise titled Democracy and the Quality of Government .

During the electoral period, the Office of Public Information would, in close cooperation with the Electoral Assistance Division, significantly expand its coverage of the electoral process.

So Moscow s mayoral election is a moment of truth for Navalny, the business leaders investing in his campaign, all Muscovites, and perhaps Russia as a whole.

In arguing for his candidacy, Ortega wants supporters to believe that his presidential campaign is part of the wave of recent victories won by the Latin American left.

And yet neither candidate in the United States presidential campaign bothered to mention the potentially catastrophic consequences of climate change.

One of the DPJ s major campaign pledges was change, which, at its core, meant anything but the LDP. But should opposing the LDP really mean undoing 50 years of work on national security?

Barack Obama, at least when he began his campaign, had all the charisma of the holy roller, turning on the crowds with the rhetorical spark of a great evangelist.

When Bill Clinton was running for the job in the early 1990 s, one of his staff explained what the central issue in the election was. It s the economy, stupid. he said.

Yushchenko has now resumed campaigning, his face partially paralyzed when he spoke to a huge rally of supporters in Kiev last week.

Similarly, electoral expertise during constitutional drafting processes can ensure that electoral systems are appropriate to the conditions of the country.