By virtue of the other nominations, one can only assume that Carol ended up ninth on the list, likely just shy of that 5 %
of first place votes threshold that is the difference between making the cut and looking on from the outside.
Here's the full poll, with
first place votes in parentheses and including Bill Connelly's S&P + projections:
The Woodstock Democrat, one of six candidates seeking to vie for the party's nomination to oppose Republican Congressman John Faso in November, received the
most first place votes of the 185 ballots tallied with 50 (27 %).
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While her Bluejays got all nine
first place votes from the other Big East coaches, she couldn't vote for her own team.
Defending champion Creighton picked up all nine
available first place votes, as coaches are not allowed to vote for their teams or players.
«The Big Short» plays spoiler Another reason films such as «Carol» and «Straight Outta» likely couldn't garner
enough first place votes is because of the unexpected last minute release of Adam McKay's 2008 economic collapse drama.
It's worth noting that the Writer's Branch disagreed, but in the battle
for first place votes (it's believed approximately 300 are needed to secure a best picture nod) that hurt its chances.
If he can raise his blocks per game from last year's number of 3.7 into the 4.0 + range, he will definitely get
some first place votes.
Last year, Braden Holtby ran away with the award, receiving 26 of 30
first place votes.
The Crimson Tide received 55
first place votes of the 60 available, staying comfortably ahead of No. 2 Oregon.
The new No. 1 in the Harris Poll are the Notre Dame Fighting Irish with 107
first place votes.
Green received 73 out of 100
first place votes and essentially ran away with the award.
But in a 1999 voting of the Football Player of the Century, Pele finished first by a landslide over Diego Maradona, capturing 17 out of 26
first place votes.
Seton Hall was picked to finish second in the preseason coaches poll, receiving one
first place vote (presumably from Villanova coach Jay Wright who couldn't vote for his own team).
Butler was second with 66 points, and the defending champion Bluejays were a unanimous choice to repeat with the other nine
first place votes.
Marquette picked up 62 points in the balloting, including
the first place vote of Creighton's Kirsten Bernal Booth, as coaches are not allowed to vote for their own team.
Moreover, when you take away the nine points from Booth's
first place vote, Marquette has just 53 points.
Outside of the Top 5, almost no one else received first - place votes; the only other player with more than 6
first place votes was QB Josh Rosen, who, like DE Bradley Chubb, had 104 first - place votes.
The Jaguars snared two of
the first place votes in the voting, which is actually kind of low, when you consider than they've at least shared in the last three Summit League regular season titles.
They're picked to finish third in the Big Sky this season, but that's not a knock: they picked up three
first place votes and four teams finished within seven points of the top of the poll.
Rhodes, a former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, received 73
first place votes, followed by Brian Flynn with 37 votes.
By the Academy's recent rule change, anywhere between five and ten films can be nominated, depending on how many films receive 5 % of
all first place votes.
We weighted the lists, so that
a first place vote is worth five points, a second place vote is worth four points, and so on down to one point for a fifth place vote.