Sentences with phrase «fringe candidates»

He wrote that «it gives the supporters of unpopular fringe candidates numerous votes, while mainstream voters only get one».

But it can also be strongly influenced by fringe candidates with relatively little support.

Clarke accused Nigel Farage and UKIP of scare tactics on immigration in order to win public support, warning the audience against such fringe parties — «fringe candidates who threaten you with a bogeyman dressed as a Romanian».

Kucinich was never more than a lunatic fringe candidate whose primary value was for laughs.

Famous fringe candidate Jimmy McMillan, founder of the Rent is Too Damn High party, is running for mayor against de Blasio next year.

Unlike a number of the many lunatic fringe candidates on the GOP side, there was never any chance that he could have won the nomination.

In the 1970s, Mr. Sanders was a perennial fringe candidate on the Liberty Union Party line, though his political career was going nowhere until he ditched the minor party and ran as an independent for mayor of Burlington in 1981.

Famous fringe candidate Jimmy McMillan, founder of the Rent is Too Damn High party, is running for mayor against Bill de Blasio next year, he said Sunday.

Famed fringe candidate Jimmy McMillan, who founded of the Rent is Too Damn High party, said on Sunday that he will run for mayor again in 2017, according to the New York Daily News.

Carl Paladino and Andrew Cuomo finally had their first and probably only debate last night, but five fringe candidates joined them onstage to help turn the 90 - minute faceoff into a circus instead of a slugfest.

It's well - known that the primaries favor fringe candidates, while the general election favors centrists.

Knowing the risks, the National Republican Congressional Committee does not publicly back candidates in primaries — even when more electable choices face rabble - rousing fringe candidates.

The two - dollar fringe candidate (me) was the most efficient candidate, expense-wise, maybe ever!

Leaders: The constituencies of the party leaders always attract attention — there is rarely any chance of them losing, the publicity of being party leader normally gives them a boost in their vote, but it's a good chance for upcoming young candidates to cut their teeth and the publicity normally attracts a wide variety of fringe candidates.

Greene endorsed Perez, while two fringe candidates who had won no votes backed Ellison.

Previously, this would have been unthinkable for any but a fringe candidate.

That task would be more difficult if it backs a fringe candidate rather than the Democratic nominee.

Murray discounted Pidot's attack, calling him «a fringe candidate who waited 30 days to file his appeal and brought the problems on himself.»

By the time O'Malley did make his bid official, interest in Sanders, a self - described «democratic socialist» whom pundits initially wrote off as a fringe candidate, was starting to swell.

The writer's humorous use of «fourth - party candidate» to refer to a fringe - of - the - fringe candidate is similar to how one might refer to a thoroughly obscure or washed - up celebrity as a «D - list celebrity» (or any letter later in the alphabet than about «B»).

Sen. Robert Menendez said Thursday that Democratic candidates will win in November because Republican candidates are either «poster childs» for failed policies or «fringe candidates.»

Also, two fringe candidates have indicated they'll try to get on the GOP primary ballot in August.

Throughout the race, she was largely written off as a fringe candidate, but surprisingly to many, came away with 20 percent of the vote — forcing a run - off election and inciting the two leading candidates to address the issue with greater seriousness.