Sentence examples for be a weak candidate from inspiring English sources

After all, a weak candidate may be a weak candidate with or without the scandal.

Throw in Democratic Party anxiety that Mr. Giannoulias might be a weak candidate.

And there is a lot of reason to believe that he would be a weak candidate in the general.

But Labor Party strategists are alarmed that the party has not been able to thump Mr Abbott, who was widely thought to be a weak candidate.

Considered by many to be a weak candidate, Mr. Lien, who has an American doctorate in political science and has held several top government posts, has offered little more in his campaign than appeals to experience and stability.

Dr. Dean, declaring himself in "full combat mode" as he hopped through three important Iowa cities, again sought to counter claims that he would be a weak candidate in the general election by arguing that he would turn out millions of new voters.

The other factor is that the Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton, may turn out to be a weaker candidate than was once expected — and might even lose the nomination to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt)., a self-described democratic socialist whose mainstream appeal is in question.

Obama's pacification of Bill made his supporters depressed and anxious that he was going to be a weaker candidate than they had hoped and fearful that, as in Obama's favorite movie, "The Godfather," every time Democrats try to get away, the Clintons pull them back in.

The other Democrats in the race, including Roys and Mitchell, tried to argue Evers would be a weaker candidate in the general election.

Their reasoning: Romney has proved to be a weaker candidate and more vulnerable than expected, Santorum they consider to be un-electable, and Gingrich -- whom they neither like nor trust -- is seen as barely breathing as a candidate.

Perhaps ironically, if Sarah Palin were a third term governor of Alaska, with three teenage children who were doing well in school and not pregnant, who had led several international trade delegations for Alaska and been more of a political presence in Washington in the last few years, she would be a weaker candidate.