Many believed the money was meant to fund the re-election campaign of then President BJ Habibie, whose chances of re-election were scuppered by its discovery.
After all, Rosa Parks, and so many others who fought and sacrificed for equality and justice of all, paved the way for the election and re-election of the first African-American president.
Mr Rove is widely credited with playing a key role in transforming Bush's image from unruly, hard-drinking, brattish politician's son to popular governor of Texas and then eventual election and re-election as president.
But unlike the election and re-election of the first black president, the media has paid remarkably little notice to news that might well have more impact on the political trajectory of this country over the next decade than the election of a single president.
Given the history of racism and segregation and slavery in this country, to have the inevitable outcome of the presidential race be the election (or re-election) of a black American would be a historical event, and good for the country.
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The truth is we will never know what was possible in that transformative moment that followed Obama's historic election or after his re-election in 2012.
They're furious that states might spoil the deals they cut with the White House and frantic for new revenue, which will only flow with the subsidies. (Note that health industry stocks rallied on President Obama's re-election.) They're also generally more powerful at the local level and favor state-run exchanges as easier to manipulate.
Which election with an incumbent running for re-election will the 2012 campaign most resemble?
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But many observers have said that, freed from the need to seek re-election, Mr Blair has become re-energised.
He won a short-term special election in 1970 and has easily won re-election ever since.
And pushing the election until then would also ensure his own re-election remains at the top of the ticket across the state this fall.
It is impossible to peer ahead beyond this coming election, but if President Obama does win re-election in 2012, Mr Christie could be positioned well for 2016.
The ruling puts a school system already in flux into an even bigger state of uncertainty, calling for the reinstatement of five of the nine ousted school board members and for a special election to fill the four seats that were up for re-election in November 2011.
The next general election in the Garden State is in November, when Christie is up for re-election.
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Finally, the recall election triggered when unions gathered enough signatures to force the governor to stand for re-election ended up creating a formidable Republican campaign machine that claims to have made 5m contacts with voters.
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.
The support of Florida's Cuban American community was crucial to Mr Bush's disputed election victory and his brother Jeb, the current governor of the state, also faces a tough re-election battle in November.
What Frepaso does depends on Mr Alvarez's calculations regarding the election, due in October, in which the Senate and half the lower house will be up for re-election.
And what impact would that pick have on his 2013 re-election run and any possible 2016 bid?
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Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad has been campaigning for re-election since Day One of his presidency in 2005.
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Most obviously, a sputtering economy spells difficulties for President Obama in making his case for re-election.
Shareholders opposed the re-election of chairman Sir John Bond at the company's first annual general meeting.
Deputies Mike Garrett and Sean McManus also failed to win re-election in the Castel electoral district.
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Georgia's Democratic governor, Roy Barnes, who hopes for re-election in November, has other plans.
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That's why the African-American turnout for the president's re-election was higher than the white turnout.
Since Mr Putin's re-election last March, legal action against opposition figures has increased markedly.
No one thinks the burglary at the Watergate office complex was necessary for his re-election.
The last two incumbents not to win re-election, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.
Pluralities of Ohio and Florida independents report that Obama's re-election would hurt their personal financial situation.
Since Mr Putin's re-election in March 2011, legal action against opposition figures has increased markedly.
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