It is doubtful that all of his second-choice nominees will be approved.
He was the group's second-choice nominee, put forward after the disqualification of its leading strategist and most influential leader, Khairat el-Shater.
consistency in the face of a largely anti-choice GOP base, and a sign that Republican voters are pragmatic enough to accept a pro-choice nominee.
Thus, the public generally has not focused on a president's choice of nominees to the Supreme Court and the congressional hearings on the appointments and certainly not on nominees to the benches of lower courts.
The Democrats' claim to be the party of inclusion and diversity is often undermined by their choice of nominees for high office (Joseph I. Lieberman notwithstanding).
"You will not be denied your choice on nominees," Ari Fleischer quoted Mr. Daschle as telling the president in a White House meeting, an account that Mr. Daschle's office did not dispute.
Each of the speakers would say some version "Sergei is not with us today," and add that though his absence was palpable, his influence was still felt or that the principles he promoted were still implemented — or that he would have liked the choice of nominees.
As outlined by the former senator and Republican Party chairman Bill Brock, the plan seeks to maintain and deepen the public's sense of having a role in the choice of nominees by maintaining competitive races through June, when nearly half the delegates would be chosen.
In the past, academy officials acknowledge, the choice of nominees in the documentary category was skewed by rules that required every member of the screening committee to watch every eligible film in a theater, subjecting them to a marathon of as many as 65 films in the space of two months.
As described by my colleague Jeff Zeleny recently, Florida would almost certainly move its primary ahead of Arizona as it seeks to retain the influence over the choice of nominee it had in 2008.
