The congress must formally nominate Mr Putin as its presidential candidate - but that appears all but certain given the cheering and applause that greeted Mr Medvedev's proposal.
In a rebuttal, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann called the proposal "a political speech" and she accused Obama of being "politically paralyzed."
Earlier in the weekend, a former Republican presidential candidate, Alan Keyes, was taken into custody, as was an elderly priest, Fr Norman Weslin, who was carried away while singing Ave Maria.
Heavy pressures are mounting on the presidential candidates in both parties to pander to protectionist and even isolationist sentiments.
Even if the presidential candidates know in their guts that they are being hypocritical, they cannot very well be kept busy the whole campaign doing mental arithmetic.
A new South African party, the Congress of the People, picked a Methodist bishop, Mvume Dandala, as its presidential candidate.
(Agence France-Presse, Rio de Janeiro) - During an interview in Brazil, Nobel laureate U.S. economist Joseph Stiglitz said that U.S. President Bush poses a much greater threat to global economy than any presidential candidate in Brazil.
Two Republican presidential candidates, former governor Gary Johnson and Congressman Ron Paul, support legalization.
She was thought by most to have won the most recent debate among Republican presidential candidates. She is also a strong fund-raiser.
The main southern opposition party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), withdrew its presidential candidate and most of its parliamentary ones in the north.
Republican Rand Paul, the son of former presidential candidate Ron Paul, defeated Democrat Jack Conway in the Kentucky Senate race, and told supporters that the election sends a message.
Mr Romney might help scotch the association with polygamy: unlike nearly all the other serious Republican presidential candidates, he has had only one wife.
What makes this interesting, of course, is that one hears Petraeus's name mentioned as a possible GOP presidential candidate in 2012.
A dozen presidential candidates, including several presumed front-runners, cried fraud and called for the election's annulment.
Mr Paul is a staunch libertarian and, until recently, a Republican presidential candidate.
The most unabashedly antiwar of the Democratic Party's major 2004 presidential candidates, Howard Dean, had the most impeccable wasp background.
A Republican presidential candidate loses the popular vote in a disputed election, but wins the White House after months of partisan wrangling. It's not a lie - history does repeat itself.
Witnesses in Tehran said riot police used tear gas, batons and water cannons to disperse supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
The presidential candidates went for each other in the papers
Mr Yushchenko may feel justifiably threatened by her as a potential presidential candidate in 2009.
I thought it would be a good chance for us to learn more English because we would have to imitate both the dialog and gestures of the American presidential candidates we have recently seen on TV.
