"Any Republican who gets the nomination, whether it's my first choice or not, is going to be better than what we've got now.
"Any Republican who gets the nomination, whether it's my first choice or not, is going to be better than what we've got now," said Allen Hulshizer, 77, a Republican and retired structural engineer from Glenside, Pa.
So on one hand we have Meryl Streep, who receives annual Oscar nominations whether or not she has actually done any acting work in the previous 12 months.
I recently heard from a movie-world friend who wondered why he's "perpetually excited" by the Oscar nominations whether or not he's impressed by the films themselves: "I've never been much of a sports fan, so I don't think it's the rooting part".
Then I documented whether they sought the presidency in some subsequent election, whether they won a party nomination, and whether they were actually elected to the Oval Office.
Coming as it does the day before the third Republican debate, which will be held on Wednesday night in Boulder, Colorado, the numbers are sure to inspire headlines about whether Carson can win the nomination, and whether the long-predicted Trump slump is finally upon us.
It could decide whether front-runner Donald Trump gets enough delegates to win his party's nomination, or whether the GOP race will go to a brokered convention in Cleveland.
The local unions, who favoured Dick Gephardt at first for the Democratic nomination, worry whether an environmentalist like Mr Kerry would be good for their factories.
She did not say whether she would endorse one of her former rivals in the bid for the Republican nomination or whether she would run for re-election in Congress.
The question for many voters here, as Clinton appears poised to clinch her party's nomination, is whether she'll follow through on promises to the underprivileged communities like Dillon empowering her.
The question seems to have been pushed to the future with the forceful disagreements in recent days between the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain, and Senator Barack Obama, contending for the Democratic nomination, over whether an American president should negotiate with Iran's leadership.
