Even by California's expensive campaign standards, the company's early contributions are causing observers to take note.
Some bloggers, he notes, get paid as much as $20,000 for the work, which by McDonald's ad-campaign standards isn't much money.
However, it is also fitting, and even potentially constructive, to appraise the nascent Obama era by explicit campaign standards.
Rubio's event was modest by contemporary campaign standards, an intimate introduction at the historic venue before a crowd of nearly 1,000, many of whom paid $3.05 for tickets -- a nod to youth culture that labels a city by its telephone code.
Malcolm Turnbull did a lot of posturing in front of, onboard, and in the vicinity of border force vessels at the Darwin port today – something of a campaign standard.
Black Ops 2, like a gaming compendium of old, wages its war across three fronts: it's single-player campaign, standard multiplayer options and the survival-driven Zombies mode each very much its own beast as each vies for our attention.
McCain was tossed a few campaign-trail standards, questions about improving foreign relations, campaign finance, and the like, and then, suddenly, the tone of the event changed.
Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, GOP standard bearer (read: standard-lowerer) John McCain annoyingly addressed any gathering of more than one as "my friends".
On Sunday, a Kerry-Edwards spokesman, David Ginsberg, said Senator Edwards "holds himself to highest campaign-finance standards, which is why we're returning money" associated with Mr. O'Donnell.
For a vice-presidential candidate who was often described as being "boring," Mr. Kaine seemed more than comfortable letting loose — at least by campaign trail standards — in a night out on Monday.
