Ms Medina, a disreputable character who is also being investigated for alleged links to the ELN, another guerrilla group, had given a videotaped interview in 2004 in which she said that three of her followers were given government jobs in exchange for her vote on the re-election amendment.
Other proposed constitutional changes will curb the powers of state governors and mayors, and remove the bar on the indefinite re-election of the president.
Obama campaigned on increasing the tax burden on the wealthy in winning re-election last year, and he and Democrats contend the vote result showed public support for their position.
Obama and Democrats have leverage, based on the president's re-election last month and Democratic gains in the House and Senate in the new Congress that will convene in January.
The weak job market has weighed on the president's re-election hopes.
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One possibility is that Congress will handle more technical reforms, while the assembly ponders such topics as an end to the ban on presidential re-election.
After cutting his teeth on the successful Bush 2004 re-election effort, Schmidt was pivotal in plotting strategy to round up Senate votes for the Roberts and Alito nominations during President George W. Bush's second term.
Incumbent presidents, on the whole, win re-election.
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Perhaps of more immediate concern to Mr Bush is the effect that the prisoner-abuse scandal and the continuing insurgency are having on his chances of re-election in November.
The President is banking on momentum from his recent re-election, interpreting it as a mandate to raise taxes on the rich by the American people.
Deputy Flouquet, also the Minister for Public Services, was one of three sitting deputies to miss out on re-election in the district.
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Mr Dayton seems to be banking on the fact that the entire legislature is up for re-election next year, whereas he will not face the voters again until 2014.
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His critics said the move was aimed at removing the current one-term limit on serving as president, and paving the way for his possible re-election.
This includes the run on guns after Obama's re-election but does not include the recent sprint to buy up weapons after the Newtown shootings.
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And even if Mr Stoltenberg battles on, the odds against his re-election next year have risen.
The visit was discussed by phone with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in January, when Mr Obama congratulated the Israeli leader on his re-election.
Speaking at Omonoia Square downtown Athens, the leader of the leftist SYRIZA party Alexis Tsipras re-iterated his position that this election is a referendum on the EU-IMF Memorandum, and his pledge to declare it void, if he wins the election.
Obama, traditionally seen as the image and message guy, ran his re-election campaign based on using the right data effectively.
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The conclusion on political pollsters comes from Nate Silver who predicted the successful re-election of President Obama by a wide margin.
Nowhere do the rules permit what many European constitutions do, and the American one used to, re-election on and on, as long as the voters so choose.
The Obama campaign decided more than a year ago to define Mr. Romney early, on its terms, in an attempt to make the election at least in part a referendum on him and his business record rather than what most re-election campaigns tend to be, which is a referendum on the incumbent.
Obama seems to be laying his re-election on the perception he is more reasonable and responsible than the Republicans.
Current Liberal party leader Jean Charest is banking on the Plan Nord project to seek re-election on Sept. 4.
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Since Tuesday evening, the President has been receiving messages from his counterparts around the world congratulating him on winning re-election to a second term in office.
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Several times a day for months, emails were sent asking for donations, keeping supporters in touch with the latest news and taking every opportunity to make those on the list feel like they were playing a major role in the re-election of the President.
"One hundred seventy million dollars would not be nearly enough for the president to run for re-election if he had to reimburse the full cost of traveling on Air Force One, " Federal Election Commission spokesman Bob Biersack said.
With polls showing the economy as the most important issue by far to voters, the jobs report was bad news for Obama's re-election campaign on a day when the president was scheduled to attend six fundraisers -- three in Minnesota and three in his hometown of Chicago.
No one doubts the health care cases will have an immediate impact on Obama's re-election chances, as well as the long-term credibility of the federal courts, which are supposed to be beyond politics.
He has been a close adviser to the Clintons for well over a decade, working on Bill Clinton's re-election in 1996 and nudging Mrs Clinton towards the centre in her Senate career.
The parties, she says, have become more interested in making each other look bad and focusing on re-election than doing what's best for the nation.
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