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Microsoft has long been an advocate of software patents in Europe both directly and through its policy surrogates, the Alliance for Competitive Technology and CompTIA.

The choice of Mr. Kerry as a foreign-policy surrogate reflects both his status as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his work as an unofficial emissary for Mr. Obama in important diplomatic missions.

During a conference call Thursday to attack Barack Obama's energy policy, a surrogate for Sen. John McCain touted a long-proven-false argument that the U.S. needed to pursue offshore drilling because China was doing the same off the Cuban coast.

Though Mr. Romney used the remainder of his speech largely to criticize President Obama — "I don't think the answer for America is to somehow try and appease or bow to the world's worst actors," he said, referring to the president's foreign policy — his surrogates sought to contrast Mr. Romney with Mr. Gingrich, without naming him.

With Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney both out of sight preparing for their third and final debate on Monday in Boca Raton, Fla., which will focus on foreign policy, their surrogates Mr. Biden and Representative Paul D. Ryan were busy firing up their bases, the essence of voter turnout.

A campaign includes armies of social-media worker bees, data crunchers, messaging experts, policy advisers, media surrogates, fund-raising chiefs, oppo-research teams, volunteers, and, above all, coolheaded managers, who can formulate a coherent position on Chinese trade policy and a plan for how to get out the vote in Hillsborough County in a lightning storm.

More often than not, top U.S. news organizations fail to inform the public that spokespeople from seemingly independent climate contrarian policy groups are surrogates for the fossil fuel industry -- and that they are deliberately misrepresenting climate science and the potential of renewable energy.

The R software was used to quantile-normalized, and to minimum-replaced (a surrogate-replacement policy) values below background using the mean background value of the built-in Illumina probe controls as an alternative to background subtraction (which may introduce negative values) to reduce 'over inflated' expression ratios in subsequent steps.

I spoke to immigration expert Professor John Salt, director of the Migration Research Unit at University College London, and he told me: "There's been a very strong element in the last year or two of using the migration issue as a surrogate for European policy and inter-party disagreements especially between the Conservatives and Ukip.

Instead, the policy employs some facially-neutral surrogate that, when applied, accomplishes the discriminator's hidden aim.

They said she relished the chance to serve as one of the president's chief surrogates on critical policy matters.