In my last column, I showed how the "can't-win" device stopped the favored Henry Clay from getting nominated in 1840.
Dillard's said it will nominate one director favored by Barington, its Chief Executive James Mitarotonda, and that the sides reached an agreement on the three other seats.
At the Democratic nominating convention a month later, however, Van Buren was unable to secure his party's nomination, and the Democrats instead nominated James K. Polk, who strongly favored annexation.
Indeed none of the Social Register's quite recent African American contingent are among those favored, to say nothing of most people I might have nominated!
A national primary, he warned, would only nominate "candidates who are personally wealthy or candidates who are favored by the media".
Of the nominees, I favored "Hotel Rwanda", though my favorite film of the year, "Vera Drake", wasn't even nominated.
Because of Georgia's partisan lean, especially in a midterm year, Republicans would be favored in such a lesser-of-evils situation, just as they would be if each party nominated strong candidates.
In the lone statewide primary, Republicans nominated Wendy E. Long, a Manhattan lawyer who is backed by the state's Conservative Party, to run against Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, a Democrat who is favored to win re-election in November.
When given a choice, Amondson favored the election of a Republican over a Democrat because of the policies on Israel and the ideological difference in justices nominated to the Supreme Court.
