It's too early to tell if he can fill the King's blue suede shoes, but this best emerging artist nominee at the Americana Music Honors & Awards show has the stage presence, charisma and songwriting promise to potentially build a career on his own amazing state-of-grace land -- sooner rather than later.
Elsewhere, business people who have never (or rarely) sought political office are emerging as nominees.
Out of the pack emerged a nominee, the governor of Arkansas, who proved to be a pretty fair politician.
It is virtually impossible to see Paul emerging as the nominee.
After initially giving a lukewarm endorsement, Mr. Reagan campaigned hard for George Bush, the father of this year's Republican nominee, emerging in the campaign's last days as Mr. Bush's main surrogate.
But with political promises, lies and misinformation littering the airwaves, newspapers and the web as the country steamrolls toward the nominating conventions this summer, I feel Mensa owes it to the voting public to determine if we have genius status, and can therefore make educated decisions when we cast our votes on Nov. 8 for whichever candidates emerge as nominees.
Complicating this scenario even further for Gingrich and Santorum is the fact that if neither can get to 1144 or even close to it, neither is all that likely to be the candidate to emerge as the nominee at any -- unlikely though it may be -- contested convention.
Mr. Kerry has benefited from a blizzard of fund-raising since emerging as the presumptive nominee in March, setting records and allowing him to repay the debt without financial strain, aides said.
Those successes are improving Cruz's odds of emerging as the Republican nominee if Trump falls short of winning a majority of delegates.
Once a Republican nominee emerges, the Obama campaign can try to tie the nominee to some unpopular stands that Congressional Republicans have taken, like blocking tax increases on the affluent and focusing on entitlement programs for budget cutting.
