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Events with high posterior probability

Gerald Heaney	In the Fall of 2007 he served as co-chair of Don Ness's successful campaign for mayor of Duluth.
Karenna Gore Schiff	Together with her father's former Harvard roommate Tommy Lee Jones, she officially nominated Gore as the presidential candidate during the 2000 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles.
Michael Smerconish	He would later work as the political director for Rizzo's mayoral campaign in 1987, having first worked with other Republican candidates, including then-Vice President George H. W. Bush, and Senator Arlen Specter.
Barry Levinson	Levinson directed a documentary PoliWood about the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
Carole Keeton Strayhorn	Strayhorn was a Democrat until the mid-1980s ; she served as Democratic nominee Walter Mondale's campaign chair in Travis County during the 1984 presidential election.
Arlo Guthrie	Guthrie endorsed Texas Congressman Ron Paul for the 2008 Republican Party nomination.
Bernardine Dohrn	In 2008, Dohrn and Ayers resurfaced into news headlines as presidential candidate John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin publicly denounced the ties between Ayers and then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Ayelet Waldman	During the 2008 Presidential primaries and general election campaign, Waldman campaigned and raised funds in support of Barack Obama, acting as a full-time volunteer, speaking at fundraisers ; she was appointed as a delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Charley Reese	In 2004, he supported Democrat John Kerry's presidential campaign.
Artur Davis	Davis was an early supporter of Barack Obama's 2008 bid for the presidency, and one of the national co-chairs for Obama's 2008 campaign.
Joseph C. Wilson	Wilson endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2008 US presidential election.
Martin O'Malley	In 1986, while in law school, O'Malley was named by Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski as her state field director for her successful primary and general election campaigns for the U. S. Senate.
Scarlett Johansson	Johansson also campaigned for Democratic candidate Barack Obama : Her efforts included appearances in Iowa during January 2008, where her efforts were targeted at younger voters ; an appearance at Cornell College ; and a speaking engagement at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota on Super Tuesday, 2008.
Alfred R. Kelman	Upon his return to the United States, Kelman and News Director Edward Fouhy spearheaded Group W's coverage of the 1966 national presidential election between (Democratic candidate Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater.
Harvey Swados	In what was to be one of the final public acts of his political life, Swados traveled to Washington, D. C. in 1972 and volunteered his writing services to the presidential campaign of George McGovern and his running mate Sargent Shriver.
Robert Jeffress	On October 7, 2011, he provoked a national controversy when he introduced Perry at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D. C., by indicating that one of Perry's rivals, former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, is opposed to Christianity.
Maria Cantwell	Similarly, when Washington's senior senator, Patty Murray, ran for reelection in 2004, she agreed to only two debates with George Nethercutt, although each debate lasted one hour.
Michael Bloomberg	On January 18, 2008, the Associated Press reported that Bloomberg had a meeting in Austin, Texas, with Clay Mulford, a ballot-access expert and campaign manager for Ross Perot's third party presidential campaigns.
Hadassah Lieberman	She was actively involved in her husband's vice presidential campaign in 2000, making campaign stops nationwide, including Chicago's Taste of Polonia over the Labor Day Weekend, where she appeared along with Tipper Gore and Dick Cheney.
Tim Griffin	In late May 2008, columnist Robert Novak reported that Griffin had been named as the Republican National Committee's Director of Research for the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain, to direct opposition research,'' although final arrangements have not been pinned down''.
Eva Longoria	In 2012, she was one of seven Californians named to the post of co-chair of Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
David Axelrod	Unhappy with his prospects at the Tribune, in 1984 he joined the campaign of U. S. Senator Paul Simon as communications director ; within weeks he was promoted to co-campaign manager.
George Washington Lee	George Lee was active in the Republican Party, and in the 1928 presidential election served as national director of'' Veterans for Hoover''.
Steve Windom	He was a delegate for George Bush at the 2000 Republican National Convention, and served as co-chair of the Alabama Bush-Cheney campaign.
Dick Gephardt	Gephardt's name was mentioned by the media during the summer of 2008 as a possible vice presidential choice for eventual nominee Senator Barack Obama.
Nancy Jacobson	Since 1995, Jacobson has been the National Finance Director/Chairman for Indiana Senator Evan Bayh.
Maria Cantwell	the Denver, -LSB- -LSB- Colorado 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, -LSB- -LSB- Colorado. -RSB- -RSB-
Dick Cheney	Cheney campaigned against Al Gore's running mate, Joseph Lieberman, in the 2000 presidential election.
Maggie Williams	She was the campaign manager for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.
Matt Gonzalez	In January 2008, Gonzalez, along with several other prominent Green Party members, launched Ralph Nader's 2008 Presidential Exploratory Committee to support a possible Nader candidacy.
Marilyn Chambers	In the 2008 United States presidential election, she was again Charles Jay's running mate, this time as an alternate write-in candidate to his primary national Boston Tea Party running mate Thomas L. Knapp in the states of Arkansas, Hawaii, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah.
Anthony P. Capozzi	In 1984, Capozzi served on the Democratic National Committee traveling throughout the Western United States for the Mondale-Ferraro campaign.
Toni Morrison	In the Democratic primary contest for the 2008 presidential race, Morrison endorsed Senator Barack Obama over Senator Hillary Clinton, though expressing admiration and respect for the latter.
Jeffrey Peterson	Jeffrey held a fundraiser at his residence for Barack Obama featuring Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and actress Scarlett Johansson on August 21, 2008.
Craig Shirley	As Communications Advisor to the Republican National Committee in 1982, Shirley traveled across the country advising dozens of campaigns and state committees on public relations, political advertising, and campaign strategy.
David Morehouse	In 2004 he served John Kerry's presidential campaign, serving as communications director during the primary election, and later traveling chief of state in the general election.
Michael Zeldin	Zeldin was an active supporter of Senator Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency beginning in April 2007.
Walter E. Williams	Cartoonist Bruce Tinsley, in his comic strip Mallard Fillmore, launched a campaign to draft Williams for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2008 United States presidential election.
Kurt Warner	On October 24, 2006, Warner was featured in a political advertisement opposing a bill supporting embryonic stem cell research in Missouri.
Steve Dillard	Recently, Dillard served as an advisor for Republican candidates during the 2008 Presidential campaign.
Susan Eisenhower	Her father, John Eisenhower, had similarly left their family's traditional party in 2004 to become an Independent ; he endorsed Democratic candidate Senator John Kerry for president.
Jeffrey Peterson	He also financially supported the March 25, 2006, and April 10, 2006, reform marches organized by immigrants and he was a co-host at a June 1, 2006, fundraiser for Arizona Senatorial candidate Jim Pederson, featuring former president, Bill Clinton.
Steve Westly	During the 2008 Presidential Election, Westly served as California Campaign Co-chair for Obama for America and also as a member of Obama for America's National Finance Committee.
Corrine Brown	In 2006, Brown's campaign committee paid her daughter's husband, Tyree Fields, $ 5,500 for political consulting work.
Jonathan Miller (Kentucky politician)	Miller began his career in politics while in college by serving as the national director of Students for Gore in 1988 when then-senator Al Gore was running for President.
Wellington Webb	In 2008, Webb supported Barack Obama and Joe Biden as one of Colorado's presidential electors.
John Hagee	In 2008, Hagee endorsed Senator John McCain of Arizona in the presidential contest against Obama.
Bob Dole	Viewed by many as a micromanager who could not effectively oversee a presidential campaign while serving as a senator, he did not hire a full-time campaign manager, former TN Senator Bill Brock, until the fall of 1987, well after Bush's team had been in place.
Ayn Rand	Both she and her husband worked full-time in volunteer positions for the 1940 presidential campaign of Republican Wendell Willkie.
Patrick Killen	During the 2004 election, Killen served as campaign manager for Justine Fox Young's successful campaign for New Mexico House of Representatives and H. Diane Snyder's successful re-election campaign for New Mexico State Senate.
Rashida Jones	She previously campaigned for Democratic candidate John Kerry during the 2004 election, speaking at student rallies and a public gallery in Ohio.
Steven Horsford	Horsford and was intimately involved in securing Nevada's role in hosting the second in the nation Presidential Caucus in 2008.
Charles B. Rangel	Rangel was an early and strong supporter of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign for the Democratic nomination.
Dafydd Iwan	As part of his campaign seeking re-election as President of Plaid Cymru, Iwan launched a campaign blog' Dafydd 4 President' in July 2008.
Peter Schiff	Schiff was an economic adviser to Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign.
Zell Miller	Miller crossed party lines and backed Republican President George W. Bush over Democratic nominee John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
Dick Gephardt	In 2000, Vice President Al Gore named Gephardt to his short list of possible vice presidential candidates.
Wendell Willkie	Willkie's name was prominently mentioned by keynote speaker and Democratic Senator Zell Miller at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Chris LaCivita	LaCivita is often mentioned for his role as media advisor to the Swift Boat Veterans, an independent-expenditure group active in the 2004 presidential election.
Hillary Rodham Clinton	Hillary Clinton received sustained national attention for the first time when her husband became a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination of 1992.
John Popper	He also played a short set during Ron Paul's'' We are the Future Rally'', an alternative convention for Paul supporters which was held in Tampa the day before the 2012 Republican National Convention.
James Baker	He served as Undersecretary of Commerce for President Gerald Ford and ran Ford's unsuccessful 1976 re-election campaign.
Dianne Feinstein	First inauguration of Barack Obama | inauguration outside Feinstein's office As a superdelegate, Feinstein had declared that she would support Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Paul Simon (politician)	He was also an early supporter of Barack Obama's 2004 bid for Senate.
Jesse Jackson, Jr.	In 1988, in the dealings between his father and Michael Dukakis at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, Jackson's father obtained for him a position as an at-large member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) by a nomination from Democratic Party chairman Paul Kirk.
Tim Pawlenty	In 2007, it was announced that Pawlenty would be serving in a lead role for McCain as a national co-chair of his presidential exploratory committee which led to Pawlenty's becoming co-chairman of McCain's campaign (along with Phil Gramm and Tom Loeffler).
Carlos Marcello	In 1960, Marcello donated $ 500,000 through Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa, to the Republican campaign of Richard M. Nixon, challenging the Democrat John F. Kennedy.
Dianne Feinstein	In the run up to the 1984 Democratic National Convention, there was considerable media and public speculation that Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale might pick Feinstein as his running mate.
Peter Boulware	Boulware contributed the federally allowed maximum to the presidential candidacy of Mike Huckabee in the 2008 presidential election primary.
Mac Cummings	Cummings was first sought out by the Hillary Clinton campaign by campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe on July 9, 2008 after organizing a $ 215,000 fundraiser in Syracuse, McAuliffe's home town.
David Axelrod	Axelrod contemplated taking a break from politics during the 2008 presidential campaign, as five of the candidates -- Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, and Tom Vilsack -- were past clients.
Craig Shirley	In addition to working with a host of political, corporate, and trade concerns, he also served as an informal advisor to the 1996 campaign of Republican Presidential nominee Senator Bob Dole.
Joe Cutbirth	Cutbirth called on John McCain to apologize to Obama for racist overtones in the 2008 campaign, and he criticized Texas Governor Rick Perry for `` secessionist demagoguery'' at the Texas Capitol.
Mac Cummings	Cummings served as the Director of Internet Finance during Hillary Clinton's presidential bid of 2008.
Nancy Pelosi	; 2008 Democratic National Convention 200px | thumb | left | Pelosi conducts convention business during the first day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in -LSB- -LSB- Denver, Colorado. -RSB- -RSB-
Magic Johnson	He endorsed and appeared in campaign ads for unsuccessful Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel in 2013.
Jim Messina (political staffer)	In 1993, as a college senior, Messina managed Democratic Mayor Dan Kemmis's successful re-election bid for Mayor of Missoula, Montana.
Ron Miller (politician)	In 1980, Miller was the campus chairman for the George Bush for President campaign when George H. W. Bush sought the Republican nomination for President.
John Melcher	On April 2, 2008 Melcher endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States.
Dick Morris	A friend and advisor to Bill Clinton during his time as Governor of Arkansas, Morris became a political adviser to the White House after Clinton was elected president in 1992.
Fred Phelps	During the 1992 presidential campaign, Phelps criticized Hillary Rodham Clinton during a speech he gave endorsing Bill Clinton's presidential campaign at the University of Kansas on October 14, 1992.
Dean Smith	On October 13, 2008, he endorsed Senator Barack Obama's candidacy for President of the United States.
Barack Obama	George W. Bush meets with President-elect Obama in the -LSB- -LSB- Oval Office on November 10, 2008 -RSB- -RSB- On August 23, Obama announced his selection of Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate.
Mike Lux	After winning the election, he served on the 1992 Presidential transition team in a similar role.
Cindy Crawford	In 2008 she had endorsed Barack Obama.
Harris Wofford	Wofford's political career began in 1960 when he served as an adviser to the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy.
Emil Jones	The son of a Chicago Democratic precinct captain, Jones began his political career working for John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election.
Susan Sarandon	During the 2000 election, Sarandon supported Ralph Nader's run for President, serving as a co-chair of the National Steering Committee of Nader 2000.
Vic Snyder	During the 2008 presidential campaign, like most Arkansas Democrats, Snyder endorsed former U. S. Senator and former First Lady of Arkansas Hillary Rodham Clinton (D - New York) for President.
Terrell Davis	Davis appeared on the August 29, 2008 episode of The Colbert Report to analyze the acceptance speech given by U. S. Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama at Invesco Field at Mile High a day earlier.
Timothy J. Roemer	He was a candidate for chair of the Democratic National Committee (gaining the support of Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid) but lost to Howard Dean, who had unsuccessfully sought the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.
Bob Beckel	Beckel was the campaign manager for Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign.
John Kerry	Teresa Heinz crossing -LSB- -LSB- Lake Michigan on the Lake Express during the 2004 campaign -RSB- -RSB- Rochester, Minnesota In the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, John Kerry defeated several Democratic rivals, including Sen. John Edwards (D-North Carolina.)
John Roberts	In 2000, Roberts traveled to Tallahassee, Florida to advise Jeb Bush, then the Governor of Florida, concerning the latter's actions in the Florida election recount during the presidential election.
Jim Gibbons (U.S. politician)	He later served as campaign manager for Gibbons' successful 2006 Gubernatorial campaign.
Alexis Herman	After Bill Clinton's victory in the 1992 Presidential election, Herman became deputy director of the Presidential Transition Office.
Ann Richards	In the 2004 presidential election, Richards endorsed Howard Dean for the Democratic nomination, and campaigned on his behalf.
Beau Biden	Biden's unit was activated to deploy to Iraq on October 3, 2008, and sent to Fort Bliss, Texas, for pre-deployment training, the day after his father participated in the 2008 presidential campaign's only vice presidential debate.
William Flynn Martin	Martin has been part of the campaign of every Republican Presidential candidate since 1988.
Jamie Eldridge	Eldridge had endorsed Barack Obama for President, and was elected to be a pledged delegate for Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.