On June 3, in Ciudad Madero, a mayoral candidate and a candidate for the local congress were pinned down during an armed battle between rival drug gangs.
But it is not a Uefa diktat or a Uefa decision," he said, emphasising that he was not a European candidate but a "candidate for football".
Though Clooney now backs Obama he's still very mindful of the potential liability of celebrity hood and has publicly said that he thinks campaigning for a candidate hurts a candidate.
Once (S_{C_{{mathrm{Frag}}}}) has been calculated for all candidates within a candidate list, it is normalised so that the highest score is one.
The money is doled out to other candidates to build goodwill for a candidate's personal ambitions.
Voting for Ralph Nader, or for any third-party candidate for president, means a vote for a candidate who has no realistic shot of winning the White House.
A Pew survey conducted last month showed that, once again, Americans would be less likely to vote for an atheist candidate than for a candidate who has no experience, is gay, was involved in financial improprieties, has had extramarital affairs, or is Muslim.
On CNN, which showed off a three-dimensional "Election Matrix" for the first time, the correspondent John King also showed a map based on Twitter feeds that was filled in entirely in orange except for two states — and orange indicated states where a majority of people said they had voted against a candidate, not for a candidate.
He told the Guardian: "I would not be happy if we had a gay candidate here – I would always go for a candidate who had a normal background.
Outside of New York City, he said, a record of having been arrested can be the "kiss of death" for a candidate, unless the candidate was a black civil rights leader like Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia.
