Template:2012 United States presidential election/sandbox

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| name = 2012 United States presidential election

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| title = (2008 ←)   2012 United States presidential election   (→ 2016)

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• Fundraising
• National polls
• Statewide polls (pre-2012, early 2012)
• Timeline
• General election debates
• Newspaper endorsements
• Hurricane Sandy

| group1 = Democratic Party

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• Convention
• Primaries

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;Incumbent nominee:

:Barack Obama

::campaign

::endorsements

::positions

;Incumbent VP nominee:

:Joe Biden

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;Challengers

:Bob Ely

:Keith Judd

:Warren Mosler

:Darcy Richardson

:Vermin Supreme

:Randall Terry

:John Wolfe

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| group2 = Republican Party

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• Convention
• Primaries
• Debates
• Statewide polls
• National polls
• Straw polls

|group2 = Candidates

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;Nominee:

:Mitt Romney

::campaign

::endorsements

::positions

;VP nominee:

:Paul Ryan

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;Candidates

:Michele Bachmann

::campaign

:Herman Cain

::campaign

:Mark Callahan

:Jack Fellure

:Newt Gingrich

::campaign

:Stewart Greenleaf

:Jon Huntsman

::campaign

:Gary Johnson

::campaign

:Fred Karger

:Andy Martin

:Thaddeus McCotter

::campaign

:Jimmy McMillan

:Roy Moore

:Ron Paul

::campaign

:Tim Pawlenty

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:Rick Perry

::campaign

:Buddy Roemer

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:Rick Santorum

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| group3 = Libertarian Party

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• Convention

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;Nominee:

:Gary Johnson

::campaign

::positions

;VP nominee:

:Jim Gray

;Candidates

:R. J. Harris

:Carl Person

:Sam Sloan

:R. Lee Wrights

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| group4 = Green Party

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• Convention
• Primaries

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;Nominee:

:Jill Stein

::campaign

::positions

;VP nominee:

:Cheri Honkala

;Candidates

:Stewart Alexander

:Roseanne Barr

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| title = Other third-party and independent candidates

| group1 = American Independent Party

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;Nominee

:Tom Hoefling

;Candidates

:Wiley Drake

:Virgil Goode

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:Edward C. Noonan

:Laurie Roth

| group2 = American Third Position Party

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;Nominee

:Merlin Miller

;VP nominee

:Virginia Abernethy

| group5 = Constitution Party

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:Convention

;Nominee

:Virgil Goode (campaign)

;VP nominee

:Jim Clymer

;Candidates

:Darrell Castle

:Laurie Roth

:Robby Wells

| group6 = Freedom Socialist Party

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;Nominee

:Stephen Durham

| group7 = Grassroots Party

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;Nominee

:Jim Carlson

| group8 = Justice Party

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;Nominee

:Rocky Anderson

;VP nominee

:Luis J. Rodriguez

| group10 = Socialism and Liberation

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;Nominee

:Peta Lindsay

| group11 = Peace and Freedom Party

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;Nominee

:Roseanne Barr

;VP nominee

:Cindy Sheehan

;Candidates

:Stewart Alexander

:Rocky Anderson

:Stephen Durham

:Peta Lindsay

| group12 = Prohibition Party

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;Nominee

:Jack Fellure

;Candidates

:James Hedges

| group13 = Reform Party

| list13 =

;Nominee

:Andre Barnett

;Candidates

:Laurence Kotlikoff

:Darcy Richardson

:Buddy Roemer

::campaign

:Robby Wells

| group14 = Socialist Equality Party

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;Nominee

:Jerry White

| group15 = Socialist Workers Party

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;Nominee

:James Harris

| group16 = Socialist Party

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;Nominee

:Stewart Alexander (campaign)

;VP nominee

:Alejandro Mendoza

| group17 = Independents and others

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;Objectivist Party

:Tom Stevens

;Independents

:Lee Abramson

:Randy Blythe

:Jeff Boss

:Robert Burck

:Terry Jones

:Joe Schriner

:Michael Bloomberg

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• Other 2012 elections: House
• Senate
• Gubernatorial

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