The last candidate to win a contested caucus and be elected president was Jimmy Carter in 1976.
The last candidate in either party to win a contested Iowa caucus and go on to victory in November was, in fact, Mr. Carter in 1976.
A politically moderate intellectual who led Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, Mr. Wahid became the first person to win a contested presidential election, in 1999, outflanking the more powerful candidate, Megawati Sukarnoputri, in a parliamentary vote.
President Bush turned Friday for assistance on Iraq to the man who helped him win the contested election in 2000, naming former Secretary of State James A. Baker III as his personal envoy to restructure more than $100 billion in Iraq's foreign debt.
Marostica raised and spent roughly $350,000, of which $220,000 — almost least two-thirds of the money his campaign spent — was donated by Marostica himself, to win the contested primary and general elections.
The three counties are among the most powerful in New Jersey Democratic politics, and backing from those provide Buono, combined with the support likely to come from Norcross allies in south Jersey, with the organizational clout to win a contested primary.
Paul Ryan emerged as the insider white knight that might save the party from implosion, while Ted Cruz became the favorite in the eyes of many to win a contested convention.
Leigh Matthews has complimented Selwood as "already the best wet-weather player in the game", a view shared by Nathan Buckley, who notes that Selwood "plays with a physicality and intensity that is the benchmark of the competition, consistently (finding) third and fourth efforts to win the contested ball".
This is a contrarian state, and no one since Jimmy Carter in 1980 has won a contested New Hampshire primary after winning a contested Iowa caucus.
