But I'd thought I had the British-politician-tie-color question reasonably straight — candidates tend to wear their party color, which is blue for the Conservatives, red for Labour, and yellow for the Liberal Democrats.
They dealt with issues like the importance of knocking on doors ("One way to break down barriers is to get introduced," advised Joe Fuld, the strategist running the session), how much money they must raise (twice as much as straight candidates, Mr. Fuld said) and what kind of photographs to use in campaign pamphlets.
It is misinformation... to say that hundreds of thousands of dollars are going straight to candidates.
She said she solicited donations that went straight to candidates, confirming a report in The Austin American-Statesman.
Not many of the newbies can be called straight Tea Party candidates, though a few of the new Republicans got to Austin by knocking off establishment Republicans.
But the OAS changed its mind after the electoral council contrived to give all but one Senate seat straight to candidates of Lavalas, the party of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a former president and mentor of the current one, René Préval.
As this year's American presidential election campaign heads for the final straight, the candidates, especially Barack Obama, will face ever more strident demands to protect workers from "unfair" foreign competition.By contrast, too little is heard about the positive effects of world exports that reached $14 trillion in 2006.
Unlike his opponent, Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee, Mr. Obama does not brand himself as the "straight talk" candidate, but he has presented himself as a change agent with new, workable, bipartisan ideas for the economy.
So if McCain's camp does try to exploit Obama's ties to the fiery Reverend Wright, the Obama-ites can question his sincerity is he really the "Straight Talk" candidate?
Voters watching the straight-arrow candidate delivering that speech, in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Depression, would not logically have thought that an obsessive focus on health insurance would trump job creation as the top domestic priority of an Obama administration.
They will stand their own candidates straight from the Institute of Public Affairs and they will place their own people in the tax office and in the big four accounting firms.
