Sentences with phrase «even ran candidates»
A seat where one party wins 100 % of the vote because the other party does not even run a candidate is not a 100 % partisan seat.
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The same intelligentsia who say Trump alienates everyone around him are convinced Howard Schultz has the name recognition to be a serious candidate for the serious issues, even though most Americans probably think Starbucks is run by some guy named Starbuck (who may also have a topless - mermaid fetish).
Until that point, few knew he was even in the running with the top two candidates, Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman and former GE CEO Jeff Immelt.
Likewise, excellent job experience at reputable companies and perfectly aligned skills can keep a candidate in the running even if they bomb the interview.
Even before The New York Times reported that the White House was considering running Sessions as a write - in candidate, it would've been pretty hard to avoid the elephant in the room: the accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around the race to fill Sessions's old seat.
If he runs as an Independent or an Alberta Party candidate, even if he doesn't win, he could just split the vote enough in the riding to let a Progressive Conservative squeak in.
If you really looked at some of the Republican candidates economic plans they will probably run up the deficit even more.
In fact, the only people who have displayed any ability to run the country better are Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich — neither of whom have a snowball's chance of even being the candidate, much less winning a rigged election.
On that, not a single candidate in the GOP is deserving to even run for President, let alone serve as Commander in Chief, regardless of whatever fairy tale, I mean religion, they wear more often than not as a guise.
You also have people who can register as a specfic party and run on a ticket to strengthen their careers and yet they only espouse one or two things that could count them into the party in the first place.There's also a huge issue of people really thinking that a vote for a 3rd party candidate is a waste, If the only way you feel your vote matters is by voting for one of 2 parties (even if you are unsatisfied with both) does it actually matter?
I don't think they had a good response, though, to the pathology of the present presidential race for the Republican nomination: The party has run out of plausible candidates before anyone has even voted.
In 2006, they downplayed social issues and even ran some socially conservative candidates.
This latest foray into the magical world of Sol Campbell's Cosvervative adventures follows the news that the ex-Arsenal man was seen as a prospective Tory candidate for the London mayoral elections in 2016 and there were even suggestions he was being vetted to run for a set in Parliament in the upcoming General Election.
Germany manager Low is regarded as a potential candidate even though his contract with the national team runs past this summer's World Cup.
On Tuesday evening, parks Commissioner Jim Oerkfitz, who is running for re-election, said during a public forum session of the Lakewood Village Board that he and park board candidate Leona Nelson object to the lawsuit.
When Boris Johnson's name was first mentioned as a possible candidate in July 2007, the prospect of him running, let alone winning, was considered so bizarre that the BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, who had received the tip - off, didn't press to get it on the main evening news.
Going back to local politics after running for LG last year — even as Carl Paladino's VP candidate — must have been tough for Edwards, but he has never publicly expressed a desire to be state chairman.
Is there even more than 1 green party candidate running for any office?
As Lib Dem candidates hit the doorsteps in the run - up to the election, even their most accomplished pavement politician is prepared for something of a bumpy ride.
From the thirteen candidates in the running, even the five most popular candidates only receive between 5 % and 18 % of votes; thus, falling far behind the 40 % required for a win in the first round.
A source with direct knowledge involved in the effort said Monday evening that state Democrats are trying to find and identify the «best possible candidate» to run in the Senate district.
Koch told me he has had second thoughts about letting Espada be a «hero», even though he met the criteria by signing the ethics, budget and redistricting reform pledges sent to all candidates — both insurgents and incumbents — running this fall.
As Maggie Haberman reports, de Blasio has had discussions in recent weeks with Google on the heels of his successful effort to get Goldman Sachs to agree not to spend on political ads in this election cycle — even though a recent US Supreme Court decision allows corporations to drop unlimited amounts of cash to try to elect of defeat candidates running for federal office.
Even prior to the elections it was widely reported that the Saudi's preferred an Egypt run by the remnants of Mubarak's regime, such as Ahmed Shafik, than an Islamist candidate.
People on the left didn't even set up an Independent Expenditure group to run issue ads against Republican Senate candidates.
And the ties go even deeper here... Howard then ran for Governor with Mario Cuomo as his Lieutenant Governor Candidate in 1974.
There are also candidates who it seems unlikely would have won if they had run: George W. Bush; Richard Nixon (elected twice even if he didn't complete his second term); Lyndon B. Johnson (served in two terms although less than half the first); even Truman, as he barely won his second term.
The Daily News reported presumptive Republican gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro has even reached out to former U.S. Attorney Preet Bahara about running on a fusion ticket.
During an interview that will air on «Capital Tonight» this evening, Erie County GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy acknowledged its possible the Lorigo and his running mate, John Andrew Kay, (both of whom are lawyers), might be placeholder candidates who would bow out to make room for someone — maybe Paladino — after the dust settles from the GOP convention.
Spitzer didn't go public about his run until the evening of July 7; the next morning, the Board of Elections opened the window for accepting completed petitions from candidates.
As with many of the other candidates running, Mark Otto took shots at Mark Levine, whose campaign he claims has «zero momentum,» and who is «personally disliked,» even by his endorsers.
«I have been preparing to support Governor Walker for months and months before I even knew other candidates were running,» he said.
Vanderhoef, who was 2006 gubernatorial candidate John Faso's LG running mate, told me earlier today that he hopes to go it alone in terms of fundraising, even though he is the SRCC's preferred candidate.
The Democratic Senate candidates who are challenging incumbent Republicans are in an even worse fix, especially if they happen to be unfortunate enough as to be running against one of the three GOP members who crossed party lines at Cuomo's request last summer to vote «yes» on same - sex marriage.
Once, I saw a slate of school board candidates that included prominent political party officials, but even then there wasn't institutional support from the political party whose name they did not run under.
That's no small thing for a candidate, even if it seems basic: the last two Democrats to run in the 19th district, Sean Eldridge and Zephyr Teachout, were dogged by carpetbagging criticism in the battleground races.
[As an aside, back in 2000 I briefly flirted with a national campaign for a certain third - party candidate, but the dalliance ended for good when they lost a hefty chunk of their activist list to a server crash — I was already a little turned off by what seemed to be a dangerous level of disorganization, and I ran away in disgust when they didn't even have a backup copy of the one database they desperately needed to hold on to.
By winter, they were setting up field offices across the country and running digital ads to build their email list, even as the Republican presidential candidates beat each other into the dirt.
Even in the United States, where presidential candidates must raise a war chest amounting to many millions of dollars before they can even consider running for the presidency, campaigns are still dependent on an army of activiEven in the United States, where presidential candidates must raise a war chest amounting to many millions of dollars before they can even consider running for the presidency, campaigns are still dependent on an army of activieven consider running for the presidency, campaigns are still dependent on an army of activists.
He would like you to think he's some sort of activist, but in reality if you strike that from his resume, you have another unqualified candidate running in a district where he doesn't even live and has never been seen.
(Under New York election law, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, even if they're informally allied as Cuomo and Hochul are, run in separate primaries.)
Given that major party candidates win nearly 100 % of the time, a candidate running without any major party opposition is essentially assured election — even if there are third party candidates.
Is it possible a candidate Paladino would match even his poor first showing running for Governor?
Three other female candidates have an even chance of coming to Congress: McSally and Stefanik are running in Tossup races this November, and Douglas faces similar odds in her runoff.
During the 2010 campaign, Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards often stepped up to defend the controversial statements of his unintended running mate, guberantorial candidate Carl Paladino, and somehow always managed to deliver even the harshest criticism of the other side in the nicest possible way.
As Americans head to the polls later today, it'll be interesting to see if a genuine dark - horse candidate — somebody running outside the duopoly, someone nobody expected nor even heard of, for that matter — could startle the pundits with an unexpectedly strong showing.
Some political observers have even named Harry Wilson, the party's 2010 candidate for comptroller and an independently wealthy businessman, as potentially interested in running.
Hundreds of those who did vote in Malliotakis» race, but not for her, cast write - ins, including several for local Democrat Justin Brannan, who is now running for City Council, certain write - ins for presidential candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and even gag votes for deceased individuals, such as Elvis Presley, or fictional characters from popular culture, such as Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones.
Democratic state Senate candidate Jermaine Bagnall - Graham, who is running against Sen. Jim Seward, framed his statement as questioning whether Seward supports Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan, who continues to back Trump even after calling his 2005 comments «deplorable and inexcusable.»
With seven candidates vying for the two seats left open by Thomas and Reynolds opted to not re-run for their seats, deciding to run for Mayor instead, some Mt. Vernon residents don't even now the names of the all the city council candidates, which included Lisa A. Copeland and John Boykin who were running on the ticket with incumbent Mayor Davis who lost to Richard Thomas in the primary.