Sentence examples for stumbling campaign from inspiring English sources

Ms. Coakley lost in no small part because of what many Democrats viewed as a stumbling campaign against a sharp and focused opponent.

The way this debate played out made me half-suspect that Mitt Romney's stumbling campaign strategy since he locked up the Republican nomination has just been an extended feint, designed to persuade President Obama that he would be facing a Republican candidate incapable of either articulating a clear message or reaching out effectively to the center.

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has suggested that the Taliban are playing a role in Libya's new government, adding another foreign policy misstep to his stumbling campaign.

Rather, there's a recognition among many observers that the Republican nominee is underperforming in what should be a winnable election, and there's a debate about the roots of this underperformance that's pretty clearly geared toward salvaging a stumbling campaign.

He just glommed onto Petraeus and the "Surge" because it was his last ditch strategy for reviving his stumbling campaign.

His aides cringed both at the morning newspapers' photos of Mr. Lazio on hands and knees after his fall and reporters' and conventioneers' puns about a "stumbling campaign".

Called in to be the fresh (female) face of Senator John McCain's stumbling presidential campaign in 2008, then-Governor Sarah Palin was thrown into the big leagues before the party fully vetted her, and she stepped up to the plate nonetheless.

After stumbling in the campaign's early weeks, she saved her best shots for the last one.

Florida is a second-tier target for Republicans, with the GOP field to face Nelson so far showing itself to be undistinguished and Mack's campaign stumbling early.

If you've been following the political news during the past week, you may well have the impression that he's stumbling in his campaign for the 2016 G.O.P. nomination.

If that happens, Mr. Cain's recent electoral surge could go the way of other Republican hopefuls who have briefly risen in surveys to challenge Mitt Romney's status as the front-runner — only to quickly fade after stumbling on the campaign trail.