These are some of the main nominations of the 43rd annual Grammy Awards, announced yesterday.
The movie industry is embroiled in a bitter debate about unequal pay between the sexes and a lack of non-white actors in the main acting nominations for this month's Academy Awards, for a second year in a row.
Not coincidentally, hip-hop and dance music, which reached their commercial primes more recently (or are still ascendant), were shut out of the main category nominations: Jay-Z, Kanye West and Skrillex won three awards each in the genre categories, and Drake won one.
The way Johnson sees it, there's a "vast middle" of the electorate that would be drawn to his socially liberal, economically conservative platform and turned off by the polarizing figures that are likely to secure the two main parties' nominations.
Not the main event, the nomination of presidential and vice-presidential candidates, but the early jockeying for plum positions in Washington if the Democrats win.
And there have been black candidates before, most recently Jesse Jackson (although Colin Powell nearly ran at least once), but never up front with a realistic chance of winning a main party's nomination.
Monroe's main opponent for the nomination was Secretary of War William H. Crawford of Georgia.
Newt Gingrich, currently Mr. Romney's main rival for the nomination, said months ago that he favored an extension.
Mr. Romney's main pitch for the nomination is that he is a successful businessman who knows how to fix the economy.
And if he does well there on Jan . 10he could try to claim the mantle of Mr. Romney's main challenger for the nomination.
