Sentence examples for race a candidate from inspiring English sources

The legal issues include whether hiding one's mistress should be considered a campaign expense (the government contends that it should) and whether, even after dropping out of a race, a candidate inhabits a sort of perpetual campaign, in which the money he takes and spends can be subject to finance laws.

"In a two-person race, a candidate can only count on getting half of the uncommitted votes, which is worthless.

So in a four-way race, a candidate could win the office outright with, say, 25.1% of the vote.

Pretty much the same person they did before she entered the race: a candidate in the same ideological space as mainstream Democrats like President Obama.

In a tight race, a candidate could well win with 30percentt of the vote, or even lower, as one candidate did in October with only 28.5percentt of the vote.

It would be a shame to draw people out to the polls for a "down-ballot race" (a candidate or initiative literally situated down the ballot from the top-tier races for higher office), only to have them miss your race! 4. Know Your Voting Systems.

Mr. McCain had 96 delegates going into the weekend races; a candidate needs 1,034 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president.

In each of those races, a candidate only needed around 8,000 votes to make a runoff.

If Mitt wants to enter the race as a candidate, he will enter the race and try his hardest to pull a Reagan.

You couldn't point to a single congressional race where a candidate lost because of a big budget deficit.

In choosing his running mate, Mr. Romney was looking to elevate a presidential race with a candidate most likely to provide the biggest jolt.