Sentences with phrase «of weak candidates»

Speaking of weak candidates, Bill de Blasio isn't taking chances in his re-election campaign.

AV avoids this problem by requiring the winner to have a majority, if not on first preferences alone, then once the second, third and so on of the weaker candidates have been counted after they are eliminated.

«We're going to commit a quarter of a million dollars to the City Council election, targeting two or three of the weakest candidates that are out there and we're going to take their seats.»

Not exact matches

It is notable that the NDP are focusing resources on candidates outside of Edmonton, where the party has traditionally been weak.

I did not vote for their religious «leaders,» and I will vote against any of the weak - willed political candidates who allow these self - appointed ayatollahs to dictate policy in the United States.

Why does the media keep going back to these weak «GOP Candidates», re-branding them as if the public somehow forgot how ignorant they are and they are somehow capable of being the president of US?

Being of any cult shows poor reasoning and a weak character so neither one of those candidates wouldn't be able to get anything done that is reasonable.

Not only will I not be too weak to vote, I just donated $ 2,400 to conservative candidates this month (of which $ 2,200 went to Romney).

That leaves Liverpool as the weakest candidate IMO but still ahead of us in terms of ambition and manager.

OTOH, if he acted weak on Assad, he would give basis to the Democrats and left wing to attack him as «Russia's lapdog», since that would play right into left wing narrative of him being Russia's Manchurian candidate.

The Bridgeport mayor has been collecting thousands of signatures to get on the primary ballot, and some delegates surmised that Ganim might not go forward with his convention effort if he believes that a poor showing would make him look like a weak candidate.

The fact that Long won that borough says one thing: the residents there know she was the weakest candidate of the bunch and voted for her to give Gilly a free ride in November.

«While Mike Bloomberg isn't a likely candidate, a weak incumbent and a highly politicized, polarized opposition certainly opens the path for an independent centrist to actually reflect the views of most voters and win their support,» Bradley Tusk, the former campaign manager of Bloomberg's third mayoral campaign in 2009, told me.

Michigan (D): Democratic insiders have long painted Lt. Gov. John Cherry as a weak candidate and new polling out of Michigan proves them right.

Geoff Berman, executive director of the state Democratic Party, which Cuomo controls, said Cox «and this anemic field of Albany insiders and lobbyists» are trying to divert attention from the «weak candidates» the party is considering to run against Cuomo this fall.

Both candidates sought the NRA endorsement, a significant development in a race where Tenney accused Hanna of being weak on his support for gun rights and opposition to the New York SAFE Act.

In his recent column, «Weak GOP Candidates May Need More Than a Good Year,» Stu Rothenberg pointed out how a handful of under - performing Senate candidates could cost Republicans theCandidates May Need More Than a Good Year,» Stu Rothenberg pointed out how a handful of under - performing Senate candidates could cost Republicans thecandidates could cost Republicans the majority.

The strongest candidate in an admittedly weak field who even has a prayer of running a legitimate, intelligent, honest, mature, moderate, winnable campaign against a strong Democratic nominee is John Kasich.

We view Maffei as a weak candidate with a misguided party - line mentality and a record of questionable decision making while in office (e.g, handing out midnight bonuses on his way out the door).»

NEW YORK CITY — The arrests of state Sen. Malcolm Smith, Queens City Councilman Daniel Halloran and two GOP bosses on bribery charges has thrown a cloud over an already - weak Republican Party and the GOP candidates vying to be mayor.

Greenberg cautions though that no third party candidate has received more than 20 percent of the vote since conservative candidate Herb London ran for governor in 1990 against a weak Republican candidate, and the present governor's father, Mario Cuomo, who successfully won re-election to a third term.

FOUND THIS OVER AT CAPITAL CONFIDENTIAL pay to play all the way April 21, 2010, 11:16 PM Interesting side note of this story is that Stone is keying in on AG candidate Eric Schniderman... Stone wants to portray Schniderman as very weak....

Tories are probably right to think that «Odd Ed» is a very weak candidate for 10 Downing Street but if it's hard to regard the Labour leader as a potent threat we shouldn't think the same of the Labour Party as a whole.

But at the same time, Faso said he's not concerned about the impact of running down ballot this year and the impact of a potentially weak candidate running for governor.

Instead, Rangel handily defeated a weak field of candidates.

The Democrats can win statewide if they run strong candidates, but all of the Dems» Senate candidates since 1994 have been weak compared to respected ex-governor Lamar Alexander and Bill «my family owns the biggest hospital chain in the US» Frist.

He says no third party candidate has received more than 20 % of the vote since conservative candidate Herb London ran for Governor in 1990 against a weak Republican candidate, and the present Governor's father, Mario Cuomo, who successfully won re election to a third term.

Jay Townsend, while a great candidate, doesn't have the name recognition necessary statewide to compete against Schumer, and even though Gillibrand is a weak candidate, she will benefit from the fact that Schumer will draw a large number of people to the polls, thus assisting her campaign, as well as DioGuardi not really being a statewide candidate.

Sara Idleman, a former Democratic candidate who dropped out of the primary race in February and is now on Team Cobb, said the use of paid canvassers is an indication of a weak campaign operation.

Julian is a weak candidate, and his relentlessly negative campaign is already turning a lot of people off.

Presidential hopeful of the NDC, Prof. Joshua Alabi says former President John Dramani Mahama will be a weak candidate in the general elections, if he is to stand as an independent candidate.

Giving the voter two votes widens choice, meaning that we are no longer restricted to making the agonising decision of choosing between a good local candidate who is from the wrong party, and a party we like that has a weak local candidate.

According to Mohr, process prevents party members from quickly changing affiliations with the intention of boosting who they might deem to be the weakest candidate in opposing party.

Before Cuomo's office gave him a clean bill of health, DiNapoli was thought to be the weakest statewide Democratic candidate, despite his lead in the polls.

Chemistry PhD candidate Richard Li, computational nano / bio physicist Rosa Di Felice, quantum computing expert and Viterbi Professor of Engineering Daniel Lidar along with computational biologist Remo Rohs sought to apply machine learning to derive models from biological data to predict whether certain sequences of DNA represented strong or weak binding sites for binding of a particular set of transcription factors.

He defeated several more experienced candidates for the Democratic nomination and in March 2008 claimed the traditionally Republican seat by taking advantage of a candidate who was considered weak.

We present another 136 weaker TTV candidates (9.8 % of suitable data sets) based on excess scatter of TTV measurements about a linear ephemeris.

Currently, the hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, which are believed to interact with normal matter through gravity and the weak nuclear force, are the leading candidates to explain the composition of dark matter, but what class of particles these WIMPs belong to is not yet known.

If they existed, axions — one of the candidates for particles of the mysterious dark matter — could interact with the matter forming our world, but they would have to do this to a much, much weaker extent than it has seemed up to now.

With an expected mass of 50 - 1,000 billion electron volts (GeV)-- the mass of a proton is 1 GeV — and weak interaction with everyday matter, the neutralino is a prime candidate for being a WIMP.

Typically, Baraka has run his own slate of candidates; it's noteworthy that this time he's feels either strong enough to give up some control or weak enough to collaborate.

After consolidating the research of two staffers and tossing out a few weaker candidates, we brought in the remaining candidates to test them ourselves.

The best of the bunch get an A, and good ones nab a B. Solid candidates slip through with a C while weaker prospects are sent home with a D or even an F.

My take is that none of the candidates were willing to look weak by responding honestly to Gibson's question about carbon taxes — «Or is it just so politically unpalatable that you guys don't want to propose it?»

In a seeming attempt to upstage Al Gore - or at least revive talks of a stalled independent run for the White House - NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg ripped into the presidential candidates» positions on climate change, calling them too weak and unfocused.

Often candidates can not get the job post because of weak self - presentation and poor communication skills — Even if they are talented and highly - qualified specialists.

But many interviewers will do those things as part of their standard interview routine with strong and weaker candidates alike, so don't read anything into this.

Your resume should focus on the educational background you have in this field and on the skills that make you a perfect candidate for this position, such as the ability to detect the weak points of a farm and to make recommendations for improvement.

Time management is key, so picture the task of having to filter through weak resumes, to determine which candidates are truly the best technical fit.

In all of the conversations I've had with recruiters and hiring managers, I've never once heard that a weak recommendation cost a candidate consideration for an opening.