Sentences with phrase «win sympathy votes»

Many are wondering if the controversial politician ordered to have his badly damaged Prado Land Cruiser V8 at the election grounds to win sympathy votes in the crucial regional election.

We are fatigued on understanding how and why Samuel Mills could open his mouth so wide to give people evidence that he is NOT from KEEA and is just trying to use his late brother's name to win sympathy votes.

Not exact matches

Chris Paul (Clippers vie for the 2 seed with Blake Griffin back and he gets the sympathy vote for having never won an MVP)

The only times I feel personal life factors into the race is when a contender's bad behavior becomes public (as happened to Eddie Murphy and Russell Crowe's A Beautiful Mind bid) or they grab sympathy votes (such as Elizabeth Taylor's first win or Heath Ledger's one).

Argo will win the Oscar because it's cooler, zippier and more, well, fun, and Ben Affleck's absence from the Best Director line - up will gain the movie as a whole major sympathy votes.

He's up against two guys he's lost to before (Jeff Daniels and Kyle Chandler) but the voting process change, which is less submission based than before, could give Hamm the «I can't believe he hasn't won» sympathy vote.