No matter what party a candidate represents, he has to take the current state of affairs into account".
Nigeria's Transition Monitoring Group, which had observers across the country, said: "These issues did not systematically disadvantage any candidate or party".
Agriculture minister Brid Rodgers, who has been acclaimed for her handling of a difficult government portfolio, has also been touted as possible candidate, as well as South Down MP Eddie McGrady.
I'm no longer just a candidate.
But Republican primary voters too often make the mistake of preferring an unattainable ideal to the best candidate who is actually running.
It also raised his stock as a potential 2016 presidential candidate.
The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond.
Christie, viewed by many as the most moderate would-be candidate in attendance, reeled off impressive statistics from his re-election victory in New Jersey last year as he received a predictably lukewarm response from the conservative-leaning audience.
Amid a steadily improving economy that has seen the highest pace of job creation in years, Republican attacks on Obama's handling of the country's finances were rarer than during the 2012 election campaign, when the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, styled himself as the candidate to turn around America's economic fate.
Born in Leicester, the 27-year-old musical unknown was selected as the Eurovision candidate after she caught the eye of BBC executives.
Related: Liberal Democrat candidates support Tim Farron as the party's next leader One hundred and eleven Lib Dems who to stood for parliament on 7 May have put their names to the letter, which argues that the MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale is the best candidate to rebuild the party after it lost 48 of its 56 MPs.
