And Mr. Michel's past alliance with Lavalas, Mr. Aristide's party, made him less than a clean-slate candidate, experts said.
A similar showing in the special primary next month could give Ms. Halvorson, who is white, enough for a victory — especially after Democratic Party officials failed in December to agree on a preferred candidate, experts said.
We could have hundreds of candidate experts bidding for a problem.
Moreover, we simulate document rankings designed with expert search performance in mind and, through a failure analysis, show why even a perfect document ranking may not result in a perfect ranking of candidate experts.
In this large-scale study, we perform novel experiments in the context of the document search and expert search tasks of the TREC Enterprise track, to measure the influence that the performance of the document ranking has on the ranking of candidate experts.
In a 1988 study, Tversky and psychologist George Quattrone described election scenarios with two presidential candidates — one who experts predicted would either greatly improve prosperity or deliver a very bad economy (with equal probability); the other candidate, experts agreed, would produce middling but predictable results.
This was discussed within the research group which resulted in nominations for candidate experts.
Several of the candidates, experts say, are credible.
And remember, as Huntsman tries to make you forget, that videos on his Web site and his YouTube channel variously labeled Romney a "pretzel candidate," an expert at the "backflip" and, most florid of all, "a perfectly lubricated weather vane".
The ruling is the first in the nation to address whether a politician lies to the public by running as a transgender candidate, legal experts said.
The purchase of Yahoo is believed to be the largest acquisition of a multibillion-dollar company ever by a Democratic presidential candidate, industry experts said.
