Sentence examples for nasty primary from inspiring English sources

In an increasingly nasty primary in which each candidate has blamed the other for the nastiness, the usually obscure role of telephone canvassing and polling has unexpectedly become a central issue as hundreds of thousands of calls pour down on voters in South Carolina.

"It's been a very nasty primary.

Also in Missouri one family dynasty was dinged by another after a nasty primary fight pitting current lawmakers.

After he lost to W. in a nasty primary battle in 2000, McCain delighted in poking at the new Republican president.

In the meantime, the Republicans face a nasty primary battle between Mr. Franks, who is not opposed to legalized abortion, and Mayor Bret Schundler of Jersey City, a conservative who is.

Not only would he be on television frequently because of the Sept. 11 commemorations, but the Democratic Party was expected to be splintered by a nasty primary between Mr. McCall and Andrew M. Cuomo, the former housing secretary.

And they have some potentially nasty primaries ahead.

But I do think that the Democratic Party traditionally in New Jersey has a habit of waging nasty primaries, but then has the ability to unify for the general".

But for all the bad news, there is one party organization that still wields considerable clout, clamping down on the infighting that produces nasty primaries and using its muscle to fill judgeships: the Queens Democratic Party.

He came closest in 1973, when he was still a Democrat and got into a nasty runoff primary with Abraham D. Beame.

Most experts expect that the unusually nasty Republican primary clashes this year are warmups for the general election.