Sentences with phrase «sore election losers»

But by 2016, that rascality had morphed into a minority plot — by sore election losers from the Niger Delta — inducing the fond among the majority South East, against the rest of Nigeria.

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I'm not calling my Republican alderwoman, Deb Brown, a sore loser, but she was hurting on election night after losing to newcomer Democrat Andrea Shaut in Kingston's Ninth Ward.

Sore loser laws would block a candidate from appearing in both the primaries and the general election in two states (Texas and South Dakota).

If Ritz were to lose the primary, our sources tell us, she will just run again for Superintendent of Public Instruction since it is a nominating convention and she would not be prohibited from running again for another office under Indiana's «sore loser» law which bans candidates from running for an office in the general election which they lost in the primary.

The Conservatives successfully challenged the result in court and the election was re-run, but the perception of being a sore loser saw a huge swing against Malone at the subsequent by - election, making Winchester one of the safest Liberal Democrat seat in the country.

The logical reason that «sore loser» laws have not been applied to presidential candidates is that Article II of the U.S. Constitution, and the state election codes of all 50 states, make it clear that presidential electors, not presidential candidates, are the true candidates in November.