Not exact matches
Ultimately, people will gravitate towards closed rather than open
primaries in my view: (i) open
primaries would need state involvement so are a deeper proposition (you need to
run them concurrently and they would be
too costly for the parties if done properly); (ii) vested interests may well prevail if the proposed reform is not building on the current system (as indeed they have
in the Tory party where they experimented with this quarter - heartedly).
He also notes that Espaillat is reportedly «overwhelmingly likely» to
run in a
primary against Rangel again
in 2014, and several other would - be candidates are also still considering a
run,
too.
GOP US Senate hopeful Bruce Blakeman was
in Western NY yesterday, and spent some time during an editorial board meeting at The Buffalo News to attack his
primary opponents, casting them as
too liberal to
run on the Republican and Conservative lines against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Updated 7:55 p.m. Rep. Chris Van Hollen's decision to
run for Senate
in Maryland marks the likely start of a crowded Democratic
primary for Senate — and for his newly open House seat
too.
Chris Fowler,
too, planned to
run as a Democrat but did not submit the petition signatures needed to participate
in the
primary.
Thats similar to what they said about John Kerry when he was
running 4th
in the Iowa Caucuses and 4th
in the New Hampshire
primaries... he came out front after a concerted effort to portray Howard Dean as way
too liberal by people
in his own party.
It will be interesting to hear how Cuomo explains that Schneiderman is not, as the AG's many surrogates intimated (and several of Schneiderman's
primary opponents charged outright),
in fact
too much a creature of Albany to be the state's top attorney at at a time when Cuomo is
running on a platform of cleaning up Albany.
What good
in the long
run does it do a Democrat to veer
too far left
in a
primary and therefore lose credibility with a more moderate if conservative larger constituency
in the general election?
For their part, the Republicans required Democrat - turned - Republican Steve Levy to reach 50 % to be authorized to
run in a GOP
primary... this bar was set
too high.
Surely the mere prospects of a more reliable and less rebellious Democrat laying claim to that particular Bronx Senate seat
in an
primary election
in which Mr. Espada couldn't
run is all
too tempting to party leaders.
Whoever prevails
in the
primary will face Daniel K. Donovan Jr., the Republican district attorney of Staten Island, who is expected to
run a competitive race and look for openings to paint the Democratic nominee as
too liberal for the job.
For a number of years Barclays»
primary travel card has been its Arrival credit card but, while that card started life off quite promisingly, Barclays didn't wait
too long before devaluing its earning power to a point where it's nothing more than a also -
ran in the miles and points world.
The
primary goal of packing is simple: arrive at your destination with the items you need to look decent, be comfortable and warm (or cool) without
running out of socks and underwear and without a suitcase that's
too heavy or
too big to fit
in the overhead compartment.