Mr. Nicholson is no supporter of the current nominating process, which he finds excessively dependent on money, giving too much influence to states with early primaries.
Still, as Mr. Romney struggles to bring the current nominating process to a close, the similarities are being noticed, especially among the pundits and political professionals who have watched both men for years.
The Brock report said the plan that it recommended could ease "many of the problems that have come to plague the current nominating process: front-loading, compression, low voter turnout, early media frenzy, excessive 'tarmac and media ad' campaigning".
Since a version of the current nominating rules were adopted in 1972, the only non-incumbent candidate to have swept all 50 states was Al Gore in 2000, and Mr. Gore was a de facto incumbent, having been the vice president to a popular president and having only one significant intraparty challenger in Bill Bradley.
Our current nominating system dates back to 1910, when the first presidential primary was held in Oregon.
It is our belief that that the current nominating system is a dyadic structure (almost triadic for the Republicans), and this system creates unhealthy distortions of the nominating process.
The company said the candidates would be in opposition to three current directors nominated for re-election.
Several clients in the current study nominated this latter stressor (being diagnosed with a mental illness, particularly psychotic-based) as a 'traumatic event'.
Thus, the current scenario nominates Sema3C as a dual-function molecule, similar to Sema3E (which intriguingly also relies on PlexinD1 as major signalling receptor).
8 30 P.M. (CUNY) THEATER TALK The composer Alan Menken and the librettist Harvey Fierstein discuss the transformation of "Newsies" from a film flop in 1992 to the current Broadway hit nominated for eight Tony Awards.
