Sentences with phrase «weak candidate running»
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.
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Obama also prayed for a weak unappealing candidate to run against, preferably something weird like a Mormon, and ta - da!!!
The U.S. uses a weak party system: candidates can run under a party's name with little or no support or recognition from that party.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.