Sentence examples for a plurality of primary from inspiring English sources

He won over reporters because they took pleasure in his company as well as in his rebellious persona, and he won over a plurality of primary and caucus voters because the conservative majority in most key states was divided between two of his opponents, Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, and Mitt Romney.

As a practical matter then, conventions perform the sole function of providing a "run-off", and a candidate who may have won a plurality of primary votes, but is opposed by two-thirds of the elected delegates, is not likely to fare well in such a runoff.

If the theory that a party should be bound to nominate a candidate who won only a plurality of primary votes but less than a majority had any validity, there would of course not be any reason for holding a convention at all.

Or rather, they have but recently come to fit almost perfectly with what a plurality of Republican primary voters believe.

Humphrey won the nomination on the first ballot, despite the fact that McCarthy had won a plurality of the primary vote.

Since 1968, no one in either party has successfully defeated at the Convention the candidate who won a plurality of the primaries and the caucuses.

Perhaps a majority will like his populist patter and unhinged campaigning style, much as a plurality of the Republican primary electorate did.

To win, you first have to put together a majority (or plurality) of primary voters, and then you have to appeal to the country at large.

As trial outcomes are often classified based on results for reported primary endpoints, failure to accurately define a primary endpoint among a plurality of outcomes described or mentioning multiple primary endpoints constitutes a problem.

For example, in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, patients are assigned retrospectively to providers based on where they have received the plurality of primary care services in that year.

Tierney first ran for Congress in 1994 against one-term Republican incumbent Peter G. Torkildsen, having won a competitive Democratic primary with a plurality of 33.8 percent.