Sentences with phrase «odds against a candidate»

He said no one should be critical of the work the campaign did in the face of great odds against a candidate with more campaign funding and support from Mayor Bill Finch and state House Speaker Brendan Sharkey.

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Though the odds are stacked against her, support for this candidate is growing fast on social media.

His numbers weren't impressive the subsequent week against Wake Forest, but losses by Clemson, Michigan and Washington seriously impacted the Heisman odds of several major candidates.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appears determined to remain in power, but her resolve is at odds with growing numbers of Democratic candidates who view her as politically toxic and are pledging to vote against her as their leader.

Candidate: Avraham Rosenberg Running Against: Senator Carl Kruger Odds of winning: 1 in 100,000 Mr. Rosenberg is a 19 year old Touro College student who is a Republican but is running on the Conservative party line.

«Our US Senate candidate, Wendy Long, with little money and shear faith in New Yorkers waged an almost impossible primary campaign challenge and won the right to be on the GOP line against all odds,» Long wrote in the letter.

A version of this article appears in print on September 13, 2010, on Page A28 of the New York edition with the headline: G.O.P. Candidates Face Long Odds Against Gillibrand.

The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate running against Democrat Chuck Schumer, Wendy Long, faces great odds in her campaign against the powerful and popular third term Senator.

Of course, no small amount of that against - the - odds enthusiasm extends to their troubled candidate for governor.

Writing on Facebook early Wednesday morning, the former Alaska governor praised Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and «all the other under - dog candidates who have the courage to put themselves out there and run against the odds.»

Both Dadey and DeFrancisco acknowledged the odds against any Republican winning a mayoral race in the city and thanked Lavine for at least allowing the party to field an actual candidate.

Wendy Long, the Republican candidate for Senate running against Sen. Charles Schumer, faces great odds in her campaign against the powerful and popular third - term senator.

Initially, the odds of him winning were around 100 - 1, but his campaign was boosted when he won the support of two of the biggest unions, Unite and Unison, and became the only candidate to vote against the Conservatives» welfare bill while the others abstained.

Similarly, Jon Kostakopoulos — a public relations specialist and former aide to supermarket magnate and failed 2013 GOP mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis — got into his race against Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright relatively late, and faces long odds even with his name appearing on the Women's Equality line.

Labour would not be mad enough to let Diane Abbott run for London mayor, unless they want an even worse candidate than Ken Livingstone to let the Tories win against the odds yet again.

I believe 1000 ^ 8 is a generous estimate for the number of stars in the visible universe, so if we find that we can identify more than 8 independent 1/1000 conditions needed for the evolution of intelligent (technical) life then it looks like we'll have run out of candidate stars other than the sun and may count ourselves very fortunate to have beaten the staggering odds against being here at all.

Such stories need a gay best friend except that this film's candidate for that post - Patton Oswalt's career - defining Matt - turns out against the odds not to be gay, even if a mistaken assumption on exactly that topic led to a grievous hate crime against him many years before.

Moreover, Cantor points out that the Hedge Clippers» «crusade against opaque financial dealings also seems at odds with the fact that in the last election only two organizations contributed more than the AFT to 527s — less - regulated groups that, since the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, can raise unlimited money for or against candidates....»

While your friend or professional contact may recommend you as a perfect fit, if your qualifications meet 75 % of the requirements and another non-networked candidate submits a resume that meets 98 %, no matter that you were sponsored, the odds stack against you.

While your friend or professional contact may recommend you as a perfect fit, if your qualifications meet 75 % of the requirements and another non-networked candidate submits a resume that meets 98 %, no matter that you were sponsored, the odds stack against -LSB-...]