Sentence examples for about the nominating from inspiring English sources

Some of the lobbying has already started, with the usual grumbling about the nominating process.

In your Aug. 2 news article about the nominating petition battles at the New York Board of Elections, you cite my observation that these contests are waged "without involving the voters".

Steve Levin, a senior vice president for the Berkely Group, an insurance firm on Long Island, said he is usually more comfortable perusing the sports page, but has lately read news about the nominating process.

Once the fourth party system got started, populists and progressive reformers began making the same complaints about the nominating convention that Jacksonians had made about the legislative caucus: the choice of the parties' Presidential nominees shouldn't be in the hands of a select group of party leaders, whether legislators or convention delegates.

Among those was the centralization of decisions about the nominating process at the national party level, rather than with the states.

If Senator Clinton supports Senator Obama, very few Democrats will be complaining about the nominating system when Obama is elected in November.

Until about the 1960s, the nominating process was much less democratic: few states held primaries, and instead local party bosses decided which delegates to send to the convention.

In several respects, of course, this year's primary season confounded the conventional wisdom about problems in the nominating system: Mr. Bush, the darling of party leaders and fund-raisers, did not have a painless glide to the nomination.

Under campaign spending laws, candidates who accept public financing will have about $75 million to spend between the nominating conventions and Election Day.

An editorial on Wednesday about judicial elections misstated the nominating rules for the Michigan Supreme Court.

OPINION An editorial on Wednesday about judicial elections misstated the nominating rules for the Michigan Supreme Court.