Sentences with phrase «campaign by the contenders»

So, here's the fundamental problem with these voter - driven lists: they're far more reflective of existing popularity and the willingness to campaign by the contenders than appreciable talent.

Not exact matches

Federal Liberal leadership contender Martha Hall Findlay says she has encountered many people who have been inundated by robocalls asking for donations to the provincial leadership campaigns.

Though this season's campaign hasn't been marked by any long winning streaks, unlike last season's two contenders, they've lost only twice, and perhaps more impressively have only once managed not to bounce back from any dropped point with an immediate victory.

An outside contender for the medals is Triple Jumper Sam Trigg, 6th at the Indoor event back in February, who demonstrated that he is in excellent form by opening his outdoor campaign with a personal best on Easter Monday.

Despite a disappointing first half of season, with a horrendous CL campaign following by departure of the manager, Lyon was a real contender for the French league, finishing second behind an untouchable PSG side.

Their dreams and aspirations may now be met by Liverpool's resurgence as a major Premier League contender following a wonderful 2013/2014 campaign where they came so close to lifting -LSB-...]

An analysis of Andrew Cuomo's 27 - day post-general election filing by NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney found that while the Democratic governor - elect spent less overall on his successful campaign than previous gubernatorial contenders, he spent more in the final days of his bid than all but self - funding candidate Tom Golisano.

This is rarely the case in the UK: the two contenders for the keys to No. 10 have had to work their way up the Westminster greasy pole for years, and by the start of the campaign are pretty (or very) well known both to the electorate and to their party colleagues and adversaries.

Kasich, unlike anti- «New York values» contender Ted Cruz, is seen by many city and suburban Republicans as an acceptable alternative to Trump, and he has been running under - the - radar campaigns in several congressional districts.

In 2004, the Howard Dean campaign made electoral history by harnessing the power of the internet to raise more than any other Democratic contender: more than $ 25m raised, largely in small - money donations averaging $ 80 — a marked contrast to the usual way of doing things, which involves raising titanic sums from rich people whom you then owe a lot of favours to, whether or not you take office.

But while the two GOP contenders continue to deny the existence of the other, the state Democratic party is taking aim at them both by launching an ad campaign casting them as the problem, rather than the solution for Albany.

These are the first major downstate endorsements for Coffey, who forced his way into the top tier of Democratic AG contenders (at least where the cash, not the polls, is concerned) by dropping $ 3 million on his own cash on his campaign and bringing himself nearly equal with Rice's haul (just over $ 4 million on hand).

The 8 p.m. Far Rockaway event is taking place six hours after a more secular campaign kick - off Goldfeder will attend with another Assembly special election contender tapped by the Queens Democrats this week: Michael Simanowitz, the former chief of staff to retired Assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn who is now running for his old boss» seat.

Creasy admitted that some of the messages may have been provoked by the deluge of emails people have received over the past few months from contenders not only in the deputy leadership contest, but also the campaigns for leader and London mayoral candidate.

Mr. Espaillat's campaign hasn't been as policy heavy as the paper would like, but expect ethnic considerations to win out over Mr. Williams by a nose, with Mr. Rangel remaining a dark horse contender.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate and potential 2016 contender, rips Gov. Cuomo as «a typical corrupt New York politician» in a tough fund - raising letter being sent Monday by Rob Astorino's campaign for governor.

Funiciello has added to Woolf's stress by calling for the Democrat to drop out of the race and clear the field for the Green Party contender, insisting that he can make a stronger campaign against Stefanik.

Cuomo, as you'll recall, is generally pretty judicious with his endorsements, preferring to hand them out only in instances of 1) political expedience (like, say, the tight race for Westchester County executive where he would personally benefit from the defeat of incumbent Republican Rob Astorino, who has been mentioned as a potential future gubernatorial contender); or 2) almost certain victory by his preferred candidate; or 3) when his nod is highly likely to make the difference between victory and defeat in the 11th hour of a campaign.

Two weeks after that boyband - inspired broadcast by the Greens, a new contender for best musical intervention in the election campaign has emerged.

Sikora, a contender for the 52nd Assembly District (Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Park Slope), ran a hard - fought campaign against Jo Anne Simon and Doug Biviano for the seat being vacated by Joan Millman.

The GOP primary in NY - 1 has become increasingly heated, with both Altschuler, who has the Conservative Party bnod, and George Demos focused mainly on slamming the third contender, Chris Cox, (although Demos has an «outsourcing clock» on his campaign Website — a clear hit at Altschuler, who has made his money by outsourcing jobs overseas).

Other leading contenders include Manhattan Councilman Dan Garodnick and Queens Councilman Mark Weprin — although other hopefuls are campaigning and keeping their names in the mix by RSVP» ing to an upcoming speaker candidate forum.

Normally we'd hope for a longer stretch between the calling of the by - election and the holding of the vote — particularly given the huge hurdle all contenders have to face with the postal vote essentially stitching up the result barely half way through the campaign.

The rules require contenders to have spent at least $ 174,255 by a cutoff date to participate in the Aug. 23 Democratic primary debate sponsored by the Campaign Finance Board.

As the Oscar race slowly begins to take shape, there's much talk of prime contenders building a topical «narrative» to fuel their campaigns: Three Billboards is being pitched as a spiky response to the culture of toxic masculinity exemplified by Harvey Weinstein; on a related note, Lady Bird and Greta Gerwig carry heightened hopes for another female best director winner; Get Out continues to mark the temperature of America's rampant racial tensions; Call Me By Your Name takes the baton of LGBT empowerment and visibility from reigning Oscar champ Moonlighby Harvey Weinstein; on a related note, Lady Bird and Greta Gerwig carry heightened hopes for another female best director winner; Get Out continues to mark the temperature of America's rampant racial tensions; Call Me By Your Name takes the baton of LGBT empowerment and visibility from reigning Oscar champ MoonlighBy Your Name takes the baton of LGBT empowerment and visibility from reigning Oscar champ Moonlight.

Another top contender based out of New York is BERG Racing led by team owner and last year's Utah race winner John Weisberg of Webster, N.Y., who campaigns the No. 5 REDCOM Laboratories / Micro Precision Components / BERG Racing Mazda MX — 5.