Sentence examples for major nominating from inspiring English sources

On January 3 , 2008 Obama won a surprise victory in the first major nominating contest, the Iowa caucus, over Sen. Hillary Clinton, who was the overwhelming favourite to win the nomination.

While the Democratic primary now hits a two-week lull before the final set of major nominating contests scheduled for June 7, Sanders said the challenge now was securing as many delegates as possible.

The upcoming primary elections on Tuesday have brought the 2016 circus to California these past few weeks, with the two Democratic candidates parachuting in or in Bernie Sanders's case, moving to the state to gin up support in what will, mercifully, be the last major nominating contest of this already endless campaign cycle.

Hillary appeared later in the evening, after Meryl Streep roused the crowd, in a live video that emphasized the historic significance of a major party nominating a woman for President for the first time.

In response, Sanders criticized the closed primary system, which denies independents from having a say in which candidates the two major parties nominate.

The issue cut across parties, producing dissension among Republicans and Democrats alike and spawning a third party, the Greenback Party, in 1876, when both major parties nominated hard money men.

But the broadcast networks will have sharply less coverage than they did on the same super-primary day in 2008, in part because only one major party is nominating a president this year, instead of two.

This year, for the first time since World War II, neither major party will nominate a presidential candidate who is a veteran.

But since 1831, with only one exception — the Whigs in 1836 — every major party has nominated its Presidential candidate at a Convention.

It would be another 24 years before another woman from a major party was nominated for vice president — Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican running mate of Senator John McCain, in 2008.

First, the number of House districts in which both major parties have nominated a candidate is extremely high this year, largely because of improved recruitment efforts by Republicans, who recognized early on that 2010 might present a challenging environment for Democrats.