If at least 70% of participants agreed or strongly agreed with a statement, it was considered endorsed.
If at least 70% of participants agreed or strongly agreed with a statement about a dimension or sub-dimension, it was considered endorsed.
The following criteria were used to determine whether consensus agreement was reached on the statements included in round 1 and whether they required reassessment in round 2 or were rejected: if at least 70% of participants agreed or strongly agreed with a statement, it was considered endorsed.
Giuliani walked next to Cuomo at the parade, and that is where he first seriously considered endorsing the Governor.
He considered endorsing Christie, but decided not to, partly because he realized that, if he ran for governor in 2017, the endorsement could be used against him in a Democratic primary.
Even his best news in months — an endorsement this week by Bob Vander Plaats, a prominent social conservative leader here — was muddled by controversy over whether Mr. Vander Plaats had been seeking contributions from the candidates that he considered endorsing, which he denied.
In the district attorney race, in fact, Mr. Jacobs said that he considered endorsing Denis Dillon, the Republican who has held the office since 1974, though he ultimately decided against it.
Mr. Flake, who has given mixed signals about his political leanings, made it clear that he had seriously considered endorsing Mr. Bloomberg, saying, "At some phases, I will confess that I thought that our future leadership ought be one who had a sense of business, without necessarily a political background".
Greeley considered endorsing former president Martin Van Buren, candidate of the Free Soil Party, but finally endorsed Taylor, who was elected; the editor was rewarded for his loyalty with the congressional term.
In New York City, songwriters are still complaining about the Internet as a City Council committee considered endorsing the simple idea of "Net Neutrality".
As Valadao considered endorsing the House immigration reform bill, he told a California reporter, "If my signing on to it helps move the [process] forward, I'm happy to do that".
