Sentence examples for contested conventions from inspiring English sources

Still, contested conventions are predicted, with varying degrees of alarm, every four years.

There has been discussion of possible contested conventions in this election cycle.

Smart political campaigns, though, have long built delegate operations to prepare for contested conventions.

In previous cycles in which contested conventions were predicted, the dynamic of winnowing eventually produced a two-person race and then a clear winner.

"When you look back in history, highly contested conventions tended to be a disadvantage to the party that had them," Yob said – although he noted there were exceptions, the most recent being Franklin Delano Roosevelt's White House victory after a multi-ballot convention in 1932.

Contested conventions have multiple ballots.

I'm worried about hearing, contested convention, contested convention.

We haven't had a contested convention since maybe 1952.

Second-placers often hanker for an old-fashioned, contested Convention.

We'd just won Indiana but we're talking about a contested convention.

Tony Vrintlinger, from Westerville, Ohio, was even more excited about the possibility of a contested convention.