As it happens, Obama was describing how the McCain campaign assessed McCain's situation during the 2008 general election, and the clip was from back then.
"It appears to me that there's about a three-letter standard," said John Tracy, a spokesman for the Murkowski campaign, assessing how inaccurate a spelling might be before the ballot is discounted.
7,698,315 for "System and method allowing advertisers to manage search listings in a pay for placement search system using grouping" – Essentially the ability for advertisers to see their ads grouped by campaign, assess performance, and make changes to multiple grouped ads simultaneously.
But then Rick Perry, after saying he was suspending his campaign to "assess" the future, decided to jump back in after all.
"We believe that the F.D.A. should perform a critical post-release review of the 'Life Wide Open' campaign to assess whether it meets the basic regulatory requirements for non-deceptive advertising," the journal's article said.
And it bore little similarity to a $6 trillion estimate — using a broader measurement — put forth by HSI Network, a Minnesota consulting group that was paid $50,000 by the McCain campaign to assess both plans.
The back-to-back tryouts, first with Mr. Pawlenty, and then with Mr. Portman flipping pancakes with Mr. Romney on Sunday and standing alongside him for much of the day, provided a chance for the campaign to assess how Mr. Romney and either of the two would look as a ticket.
The BBC's Geeta Pandey trails her on the election campaign to assess her chances.
The software was used for a measurement campaign to assess the angular resolution of the imaging system with MOX samples.
With this aim, ten commercial biocides were evaluated in a laboratory campaign to assess the effectiveness of the compounds against the microbial colonisation of concrete.
