But with national parliamentary elections less than a week away, he is finding himself in a new and unfamiliar position: as the acknowledged front-runner in his district.
The acknowledged front-runner, Joe Clark, was prime minister for nine months in 1979-80 until his minority government fell on a budget vote; he then served for six years as Mr Mulroney's foreign minister.
Christine Quinn, the acknowledged front-runner, seems to want to embrace Bloomberg's vision -- but only up to a point.
Regulators acknowledge front-running to be a widespread problem, but virtually nobody gets caught.
Though her counselor had been discreet about the problem to her fellow campers, Hattie had unabashedly acknowledged in front of the entire camp at a weekly Sunday service, "My best moment of the summer was when my cabin came to visit me in the infirmary because I had head lice".
It should probably be acknowledged up front that nobody is going to make any money providing remote areas with internet.
And Politico's Alex Burns suggests that the Romney campaign "recognized -- and acknowledged up front -- that their commercial selectively clipped the president's words for dramatic effect".
Several other tea party-friendly groups did not entirely rule out engaging in the election, but played down the possibility and acknowledged up front that Stockman's campaign looks like a questionable proposition.
I've always enjoyed the show's cheerful streak of smuttiness, and there's a bit more of that this season, plus a lot of Cox's cleavage, which she and the show's creative team have acknowledged placing front and center this season.
The House members acknowledged that "front-line employees cannot, on their own, monitor the entire system," but they said that the workers were "an important link in the transit security chain".
