We do that most of all by trying to reach out to get the widest possible range of nominations, recommendations themselves are obviously made on merit.
Both Cruz and Kasich are mathematically unable to win the nomination outright themselves; their only hope is a chaotic convention floor fight.
On the rock side of things, though, the nominations stumble over themselves.
One message is totally clear, they will not accept civil nomination [allowing voters themselves to nominate candidates for chief executive], because they claim this is a breach of the Basic Law.
Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, two of the leading candidates right now for the Republican presidential nomination, have declared themselves fiercely opposed to President Obama's health care reform.
Until 1932, when F.D.R. decided to show up to accept his nomination, the candidates themselves skipped the Conventions, citing modesty, a precedent set a century before by Henry Clay.
But now, with the decision by the Suffolk County executive, Steve Levy, to switch parties and seek the Republican nomination, Democrats find themselves facing an opponent with deep pockets who is making an aggressive appeal for independent voters by claiming he is the true agent of change.
As the Democratic presidential hopefuls turned to Indiana as a new battleground in the fight for the nomination, they find themselves facing a different audience in places like Kokomo, a blue-collar city in the middle of endless expanses of farms north of Indianapolis.
By themselves, the Globe nominations are not deeply meaningful.
The game of musical chairs is already under way; Republicans started talking among themselves about presidential nominations before Mitt Romney had conceded.
