Sentences with phrase «only election candidate»

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Rick Perry spent a ridiculous $ 6,035,705 in Iowa alone this election cycle — far more than any other candidate — only to come in a distant fifth place.

A lifelong Republican, Whitman switched her support to Hillary Clinton three months before last year's election — she was the only Fortune Most Powerful Woman to publicly campaign for a nominee — stoking speculation that the former gubernatorial candidate would reenter the political arena.

Trump was in the state to stump for GOP special election candidate Rick Saccone, but only mentioned him in passing.

Unlike Khan, who significantly outperformed the Labour party in his own constituency during the mayoral election, Goldsmith did only about as well as a generic Conservative candidate.

As the midterm elections approach, some Republican candidates are not only embracing President Trump's policies but also his tone and catchphrases.

With only 30 candidates nominated in 87 constituencies, most viewers tuning in to the televised debate will not have the option of voting for an Alberta Party candidate on Election Day.

In 2000, Mr. Strankman was an unsuccessful candidate in the Canadian Wheat Board elections and in 2002 he was fined $ 7,500 and faced 180 days in jail after taking 756 bushels of wheat across the American border and sold it (he only served a week in jail with four other rebel farmers).

They've evidently been told to stay out of sight: one candidate, if you can believe it, said he would only give interviews after the election.

In 1979, Mr. Taylor placed only 355 votes behind PC candidate Ken Kowalski in a by - election in Barrhead.

Conservative Glen Motz and Libertarian Sheldon Johnston appear to be the only two candidates to so far step up to run in the upcoming federal by - election in Medicine Hat - Cardston - Warner.

In the 1999 and 2003 general elections, Ms. Weir was the only NDP candidate elected.

Reform Party candidate Deborah Grey earned a distant 4th place finish in the 1988 general election and carried the young protest party's banner in the by - election only months later.

If that were the case, the only candidate left standing after Election Day would likely be Smith.

In the last few presidential elections, the strategy of the Republican presidential candidate has been to only talk about abortion when asked.

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.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

The candidate of the conservative party has a chance only if this election is waged as a campaign to enact Republican measures — measures he did not shape and can not explain.

I personally think that Obama's election was more about his left wing ideology than his «skin color» because if it had only been about «skin color» then the POTUS candidates on the right who were black, would have had just as good a chance to become the POTUS, as Obama did.

The only Protestant Christian candidate in the national election is running for the «wrong» party in their eyes, so his faith must be discredited by the Christian right.

If by law or regulation stations could be required to provide time regularly to members of Congress, on the basis that it is the right of all citizens to have an opportunity to see and hear their chosen representatives, and if a similar requirement were to insure free access to all congressional candidates during elections — only then can the knot be severed.

In recent elections it has become obvious that presidential candidates are welcome to use religious language only in certain communities.

the only time these candidates are christian is around election time.And we christian are so dumb to see that.Do you think God care who is conservative or not?there are many gods but one true God and his name is Jesus.

The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

The nominating committee's slate can be challenged by candidates nominated by a petition process from the members; but the way things normally work — and always, now, for the officers — «elections» take place with only one person «competing» for each slot.

In fact, only about one - third of white evangelicals (37 %) and about half of black Protestants (45 %) believe that churches should endorse candidates during elections.

The defeat of an incumbent President, the election of the first «baby boomer» by a slim plurality, and the extraordinary campaign of an independent candidate are only the more obvious reasons for the special attention that 1992 is likely to be paid in the history books.

Among voters who attend services at least monthly, only 16 percent of white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of white mainline Protestants said that their churches provided information on voting, the election, or specific candidates this year.

Not only has he been a vocal critic of (now - former) Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore — who just lost the election to Democrat Doug Jones following numerous allegations that he sexually pursued...

Not only has he been a vocal critic of (now - former) Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore — who just lost the election to Democrat Doug Jones following numerous allegations that he sexually pursued (and even molested) teen girls — Jimmy Kimmel has also been an advocate of healthcare laws he believes best support the families of young children.

We have free and open elections, with campaigning not only allowed but encouraged on the part of all kinds of parties, candidates and viewpoints.

The problem is that the only «real» candidates in this election don't fit the Evangelical vote.

The nature of persuasion and the constraints of campaigning mean that only the very best candidates can hope to produce that process within the few months of a general election contest.

But with no identifiable headquarters, candidates for board slots who win elections with only two write - in votes and a shadowy police force that included a leader of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang, deciphering the Park District's past operations won't be easy.

Even if these are the only two, that brings it to 6, which would require more than 100 candidates per election on average.

in 1992 Presidential elections, Ross Perot got 19 % of the votes, but zero electoral votes (some argue, effectively handing Presidency to Bill Clinton the latter might likely be partly why in 2016, 3rd party candidates got only 4 % combined).

The real reason is that Queens County Democratic Leader Joe Crowley has settled on Francisco Moya as his candidate, and Moya can't run in a special election because he only moved into the district last September.

The result of all this is that FPTP bodies tend towards dual party systems after a while; the similar candidates fight it out in primaries so that in the real election, there's only two major choices and the effect of vote splitting is minimized.

I think it gives us lessons of persistence and courage», Mr Nyaunu who left the NDC to contest the 2012 parliamentary elections as an independent candidate and only returned to the party last year observed.

Elections can be won initially because the populist appears as the only candidate who takes the common people seriously.

But I guess that if forced to choose between those two and only those two (and the first - past - the - post system effectively does force people as far as elections are concerned), they will likely vote for candidates from the Democratic Party.

While the party only have two MPs who entered the Commons under 30, 27 candidates in the demographic stood for election in 2015, according to research by parliamentarycandidates.org

However, only 71 out of the 319 wards of the state are where elections will take place as the State Independent Electoral Commission has declared that candidates in all other wards have withdrawn from the exercise leaving the fields for the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

(In the only parallel, the PCC elections of 2012, the Labour candidate got 51 %, Cons 16 % and Lib Dems 15 %).

There was only one week when the candidates for the EP elections hotly debated the same «European» issue: it was after Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Contest.

Meanwhile, the «presidential filter» will ensure that only candidates friendly to the Kremlin can secure nominations to stand in gubernatorial elections.

The only thing stopping it bursting out into the open is the fear candidates have of being blamed for bringing down May and plunging the party into another general election before it's ready to fight one.

Hillary Clinton has ramped up her efforts to influence the Democratic Party and its voters in upcoming midterm elections, a move that some say only hands ammunition to Republican candidates.

[3] These include the governor of Lara state, Henri Falcon, a former Chavista who sided with the opposition in the 2009 election and was one of only three opposition candidates to be reelected in December 2012.

Only 7 percent of the contributions to New York City candidates for the 2013 election came from special interests compared to 69 percent of contributions to New York State Legislative candidates in the 2012 election.

Mangano, who is awaiting trial on federal corruption charges, has yet to declare that he is not seeking a third term, but his only remaining option to qualify for the Nov. 7 general election would be to distribute petitions to be an independent candidate under a nonestablished minor party.