Sentence examples for for favored candidates from inspiring English sources
As in Delaware, the group has moved into states and paid for media blitzes for favored candidates in the final weeks before voting.
With this kind of generous match, special-interest groups may well conclude the best way to gain even more influence will be to raise money for favored candidates, knowing that tax funds will make the contributions up to 13 times more valuable to the candidate.
Both Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa took on the teachers union, leading campaigns to raise money for favored candidates.
"Extensive Fraud Appears to Mar Afghan Election" (front page, Sept. 25) says lawmakers and opposition candidates accused me of "fixing the elections for a list of favored candidates".
Lawmakers and opposition candidates openly accused the Karzais, and in particular Ahmed Wali Karzai, the most powerful official in Kandahar, of fixing the election for a list of favored candidates.
Closer to home, he had played the political kingmaker, building twin coalitions for his favored candidates for mayor and governor.
Unions, in particular, have a record of rolling out reliable votes for their favored candidates.
Party bosses, currently banned from contributing to primary contests, would be able to spend endlessly for their favored candidates.
Citizens must fill in circles to vote for their favored candidates and slip the completed forms into a counting machine that scans the ballots.
Another possible destructive amendment would knock out the bill's restrictions on fund-raising for sham "issue ads" run just before an election by independent groups to generate votes for their favored candidates.
But in a year when there is no groundswell of support for any one of the party's nine presidential candidates, a kind of political free-for-all has ensued in political clubhouses across the city and state, with leading New York Democrats either sitting on the fence or maneuvering behind the scenes to rally support for their favored candidates.
