Sentence examples for candidate matters from inspiring English sources

I think the personal virtue of a candidate matters less when the stakes are so high.

"The spouse of the candidate matters in less than 1 out of 100 votes," Mr. Luntz said.

In the village of Saedah, a cluster of huts in a Sunni tribal area in eastern Diyala, only one candidate matters: Sheikh Mohammed Turki.

The identity of the opposition candidate matters relatively little: voters are choosing between "the incumbent" and "not the incumbent," and if things get bad enough, almost anyone else will do.

In the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, only a quarter of voters say the selection of the vice presidential candidate matters a lot to their decision in November.

In the referendum model, only the performance of the incumbent party's candidate matters: the opponents could nominate Lyndon H. LaRouche or Jesus H. Christ, and it wouldn't make much difference.

The message and the candidate matter, of course; it's easier to persuade voters if your policies are more popular and your candidate more appealing.

In West Virginia, where more than three-fourths of white voters chose Mrs. Clinton, 20percentt of the white voters said the race of the candidate mattered in their choice.

According to the CNN exit poll, twenty-seven per cent of those surveyed said that in deciding how to vote, the religious beliefs of the candidate mattered a great deal to them.

But will the vice presidential candidate matter?

But the quality of individual candidates matters, too.