WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday night Indiana conservative upstart Richard Mourdock defeated 36-year incumbent Sen. Dick Lugar in a primary battle that featured no fewer than 12 independent groups -- not connected to candidates or political parties -- spending money to support their favored candidate.
House Majority PAC, the primary unlimited-money group supporting Democrats running for the House of Representatives, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from family members and interests connected to candidates that it has spent on those specific elections.
Jibe turns Facebook's social graph into an internal recruiting graph for each candidate, showing the HR person or hiring manager who else in the company is connected to the candidate.
The ruling opened the way for corporations, unions and the rich to spend unlimited sums of money in support of pet candidates and policies – usually through Super PACs – as long as it is not directly connected to a candidate or campaign.
Each candidate is fully connected to the candidates of the next frame.
The condition, known by doctors at this point simply as "Mitt Romney Madness," seems to be connected to the candidate's increasingly strenuous efforts to win his party's nomination for president of the United States.
In a February Huffington Post article, Obama digital director Teddy Goff said that the campaign's successful small-donor operation is driven by individuals who feel connected to the candidate and his policies.
Although a respectable share of online Americans say that the internet has helped them to be more involved in the campaign and feel more personally connected to their candidate of choice, even larger numbers feel that the internet is a megaphone for extreme viewpoints and a source of misinformation for many voters.
Incorporating measures of variables connected to the "candidate explanations" in an expanded version of Figure 2 could effectively screen the explanatory options.
According to the following formula, we obtained the final score for each candidate gene: (1) Score = ∑ i = 1 N S i P i, where N is the number of partners connected to the candidate gene, S i is the interaction score, and P i is the protein score.
