A few months ago (when I finally broke myself of the habit of watching the news), the succession of breaking news stories was about the new front runner of-the-week in the Republican presidential campaign.
Now all a candidate needs to do to become the front runner of a major political party is be angry, insulting, confrontational and totally lacking substance.
In the presidential race, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, the Republican front-runner of the moment, took the debate over entitlements to a level never before seen from a major candidate, calling for the end of all three programs as currently structured.
Kenyans go to the polls on Monday and one of the front runners for the post of president is Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta.
And Mr. Gingrich, in his own speech after losing the primaries, mocked Mr. Romney for his continuing claims to be the front-runner of the Republican contest.
Page 170 Magazine WHY MITT ROMNEY IS NOT FALLING DOWN From the outset, Mitt Romney has been the putative front-runner of the Republican Primary.
Yet the Republican front-runner of the moment, Rick Santorum, is with the minority on each of these issues, and Mitt Romney is a near match.
Congressional leaders backed the president but warned -- as did Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz)., a likely 2008 GOP front-runner -- of the dangerous stakes.
Given that, you can see the problem for Bush's prospects if the idea of him as inevitable or, at a minimum, the front-runner of the race, disappears.
Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, the Bahraini president of the Asian Football Confederation, is widely considered the front-runner of the five candidates as the contenders try to work out their likely share of the 209 votes on offer.
