Each of these three old-guard candidates is well up with Mr Kuchma in the opinion polls.
He yanked party support from the Liberal Democratic Party rebels who voted against postal reform and gave it to loyalists who became known as assassins, many of whom won over those old-guard candidates.
ATTACKS ON GOVERNMENT -- Two car bombs aimed at the new government killed at least six people, including bodyguards for the justice minister and soldiers guarding National Guard candidates.
At almost every door Connor Harnett, an 18-year-old security guard and candidate for the right-wing populist party, raps on, the answer comes: "Before you get started, darling, I'm voting for you anyway .That is just as well because, cruelly tongue-tied, the burly debutant politician struggles to say more than: "Here's our manifesto.
Older people listen solemnly to the speeches and children dodge between the legs of the Nigerian or Ghanaian soldiers guarding each candidate.
But Wichita State was upset by Tulsa last week and is likely to be without a pair of point guards — All-American candidate Fred VanVleet (hamstring) and freshman Landry Shamet (foot).
The Secret Service agents who guard the four candidates and their families have the job of giving them code names, which the Washington Post is now reporting.
In choosing the incumbent, the Academy's old guard shunned a candidate who had promised, if elected, to overhaul the ailing research giant.
In the NBA Finals MVP Award voting, the shooting guard was a candidate but was edged out by teammate and captain Tim Duncan.
The anonymity of exam candidates guarded against fraud and favoritism by those who could judge papers based upon handwriting and/or signature calligraphy; a bureau of copyists was tasked with the job of recopying all the candidates' papers before grading.
The drone question highlighted an unusual forum in which the moderator, Ben Smith, the editor of the Web site Buzzfeed, managed to catch the candidates off guard on a few occasions.
