Sentences with phrase «popular candidate»

The presidential election highlights an ugly truth about American politics: The most popular candidates often don't get elected.

It would cut down the procedure significantly and would undoubtedly leave the less popular candidates out in the cold.

There's the «vertical proximity effect,» whereby unknown candidates whose names appear near those of popular candidates get extra votes.

So how is it that, under AV, you could end up with the least popular candidate?

The hunt itself is fraught with tradition and secrecy, but there are a few popular candidates.

Otherwise, voting enters a second round where the two most popular candidates face a run - off at the polls.

Let the leaders in the state organize and elect popular candidates.

Currently, the most popular candidate is M - theory, a set of concepts derived from string theory.

Hue Jackson, the current offensive coordinator for the Cincinnati Bengals and former head coach of the Oakland Raiders, is one of the most popular candidates for several jobs.

Walsh remains the more popular candidate in the race, with a 66 percent to 16 percent favorable rating.

Obama is also by far the most popular candidate in terms of search queries, though John McCain leads in paid search with 60 % of the total visibility.

Business Secretary Vince Cable is the most popular candidate among Lib Dem councillors to succeed Nick Clegg as party leader, a BBC survey says.

Ememobong explained that the PDP in the State would follow all due processes to ensure that better and popular candidates emerged to take the party to the polls in 2019.

Qualification for the debate will depend on how popular a candidate is in the polls.

We what do know from YouGov's polls of party members (which were spot on in 2001) is that prior to the party conference Clarke and Davis were the most popular candidates with the party membership, with David Cameron in third place.

Clinton has several popular candidates to choose from.

Doctors are popular candidates as equity research analysts in fields like medical devices and pharmaceuticals, and engineers or salesmen in technology niches like semiconductors are likewise popular.

The 43 - year - old from the evangelical National Restoration Party, became widely popular candidate after denouncing a court ruling calling on the Central American country to give civil marriage rights to same - sex couples.

From the thirteen candidates in the running, even the five most popular candidates only receive between 5 % and 18 % of votes; thus, falling far behind the 40 % required for a win in the first round.

Second, the electoral college was set up to weed out «unacceptable» candidates not by dividing fringe voters in different states per se but by giving the electors the power to elect the candidate who lost the popular vote in the event that the more popular candidate turned out to be unacceptable for whatever reason.

«Of course, it is quite possible for the first - round winner to be the winner after transfers if they are the most popular candidate overall.

«The big names sponsoring this charade are only laying templates to cheat popular candidates in the primary elections ahead of 2019 general elections.

It is expected that under party rules Ms Shawcroft's seat will go to comedian Eddie Izzard - the next next most popular candidate at the last NEC election - although Labour sources said they would have to account of the gender balance of the committee.

Despite this Cameron is still the most popular candidate amongst members who see themselves as «clear blue water» Tories, and they would still vote for him rather than Fox or Davis.

A Conservative will chair twelve of these committees, although all 650 MPs will be eligible to take part in the secret ballot conducted under the Alternative Vote system (ie ranking your first, second etc preferences with votes transferring from the least popular candidates until one has more than 50 % of the vote).

Recent polls have shown Lib Dem party members and councillors would prefer a coalition with Labour, and it's these same polls displaying Cable as the most popular candidate for leading his party.

«Only 18 months ago, Senator Cruz was one of the less popular candidates,» explains the blonde man in a cut - glass British accent, which puts Americans on edge the same way that a standard German accent can unsettle Swiss people.

That may be because the most popular candidate among pastors is «I don't know.»

Numerous articles in the Labour blogosphere - particularly Labourlist - have channeled grassroots outrage over the rejection of popular candidates and their replacement with hard core leftists.

In the USA (since country is not tagged / specified at this time) The intention of the political primary election system is to allow a political party to gage how popular a candidate is out of a set.

The corker is that Tammy becomes the most popular candidate with her platform of «I don't care.»

«If Gordon Brown were to resign there are no obvious more popular candidates to be leader of the Labour Party» Agree - 69 % Disagree - 23 % Don't know - 8 %

Indeed, both polls show the most popular candidate in either party is Sanders, who to his benefit has largely avoided any especially negative attacks during the primary.

Some versions of string theory, the most popular candidate for a unified theory, say there could be extremely feeble force fields left over from the Big Bang that point in different directions in different parts of space.

Once again, tweets nodded to current events, including the presidential campaigns of the most (and least) popular candidates.

The fact that these are popular candidates in the Republican party tells you a lot about the Republicans.

While the FA conduct their search for Roy Hodgson's replacement as England manager, they may have received a significant boost towards at least one popular candidate: U.S. Men's National Team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann.

As a result a number of different captains were named according to the match day squad, a popular candidate being The BFG, Per Mertesacker.

Arsenal's Jack Wilshere, who has played just 72 minutes of Premier League football due to injury this season, was only the ninth most popular candidate

Because of the advantages of tactical voting, most people concentrate on a popular candidate who is good enough.

Now, he is the most popular candidate among trade unions and grassroots Labour activists, having been endorsed by 162 Labour constituency parties — ahead of Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall — and by six unions, including Labour's two biggest affiliates, Unite and Unison.

The political version of Pop Idol got underway on Monday night as ITV launched its search for a popular candidate to stand at the next general election.

«It is true a meeting was held between some Northern leaders and youths in Birnin Kebbi where the issue of how PDP can present a credible and popular candidate and supports across board was discussed extensively.

If the popular candidate is elected and stands election he will win.

Independence Party leaders offer few details about why they were supporting Cuomo, beyond the major benefit of claiming the coattails of a popular candidate.

Populus have found that Ken Clarke is the most popular candidate, even amongst current Tory voters, albeit with a much lower margin over Davis than amongst the public as a whole.

Business Secretary Vince Cable is the most popular candidate among Lib Dem councillors to succeed Nick Clegg as party leader, a BBC Sunday Politics poll found.

According to Bonso, a spate of demonstrations has already led CENI to allow opposition delegates to audit its database, which had allegedly been «cleaned» of some popular candidates.