I've played through pain before.' "In golf, you get your money, your endorsements based on how you play.
Mr. Ferrer said that while he eagerly wanted Mr. Sharpton's support, he would not make endorsements based on race.
Using a scoring system called Endorsement Points that weights endorsements based on their importance — for instance, endorsements from governors score more points than endorsements from U.S. representatives — Mr. Romney had accumulated about 44 percent of the endorsement capital through Sept. 23.
Yet during election season, the N.R.A. makes endorsements based largely on candidates' voting records on gun control — with little if any concern for their views on other issues of interest to hunters.
Everyone doesn't earn thirty million dollars a year, nearly all of it from endorsements based not just on athletic prowess but on the golden aura of a man so pure, so dedicated, that he would bear any burden and endure any pain to win the world's most gruelling athletic contest again and again and again.
Rep. Frank Pallone, a third candidate in the primary, announced his own set of endorsements based largely in his congressional district.
With this new standard in mind, labor and its community allies can no longer afford to make endorsements based solely on past loyalties or long-standing friendships.
Unpledged delegates, also known as superdelegates, are free-movers at the convention who can change their endorsements based on the results of the public ballot and who they think will be the stronger candidate in a general election.
"While Congressman Stockman has a pro-economic growth record, so does Senator Cornyn," Club for Growth president Chris Chocola said in a statement, noting that the Club decides its endorsements based on both the incumbent's record and the challenger's viability.
We already know that, this early in the campaign, presidential general election polls have essentially no relationship to the outcome....[W]inning the support of party leaders — not voters — is the key to winning the invisible primary....But what are these party leader endorsements based on?
