A BBC report states that the decisive nomination was made by Tony Wright with MacKinlay yet to nominate at that point.
Under the current likely election calendar, that means that a clear picture of super PAC fund-raising will not be available until after the Iowa caucuses and the primaries in New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, and Florida are already over — a span of skirmishes that has often proved decisive in presidential nominating contests.
California has not had a decisive role in nominating a presidential candidate of either party since 1972, when George McGovern won the Democratic primary here but faced a convention challenge from Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, who tried to claim a share of the state's 271 delegates.
On Tuesday, New Yorkers, Californians and voters in nine other states have the unusual opportunity of participating in presidential primary elections that could be decisive in their parties' nominating contests.
"The most likely outcome," he said, "is we'll have a decisive and early end to the nominating process by the middle of February".
The real issue is how this news, those headlines, played to undecided or wavering Republicans who have yet to vote in the primaries and caucuses that will play a key, if not decisive, role in the party's nominating process.
"With 95 delegates at stake, New York will play a decisive role in this year's Republican presidential nominating contest," the state Republican chairman, Edward F. Cox, said in a statement.
Strategists believed that the first four contests would be decisive and that she would wrap up the nomination by Feb. 5, when more than 20 states were to hold nominating contests.
At the 2013 Congress, China nominated a seven-year period to implement its programme: "By 2020, decisive results are to be obtained in reform, [and] the reform tasks put forward [are] to be completed".
Senator Barack Obama won decisive victories over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington, Louisiana and Nebraska on Saturday, giving him an impressive sweep going into a month when the Democratic nominating contests are expected to favor him.
