The wide-open field on both sides, the presence of candidates with star power and a nominating calendar with the holding of votes early in the year by a lot more states has accounted for this shift that voters are noting.
NASHVILLE — Lois DeBerry, a Tennessee legislator who was one of the nation's longest-serving female lawmakers and who entered the national spotlight in 2000 with a presidential nominating speech for her friend Al Gore, died on Sunday in Memphis.
The squabbling on the conservative end left Mr. Romney as a potential unintended beneficiary, as his opposition remains fractured and he tries to pull off a third straight victory in a nominating contest with Saturday's primary vote here.
It was designed to function essentially as a nominating committee, with the final choice to be made by Congress, because with no nationwide media, the founders assumed nobody would know enough about someone from another state.
Similarly, less ideological Republicans, with a DW NOMINATE score of.2 or less, voted overwhelmingly "yes".
A Taste of Honey was revived by the Roundabout theatre company in New York in 1981 with a Tony-nominated Amanda Plummer as Jo.
Through bravura piano and vocal recitals at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, his reputation grew, culminating with a Grammy-nominated performance as George III on the 1973 recording of Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs For A Mad King.
He persuaded Cromwell to dissolve the Rump Parliament in 1653, but was unhappy with Cromwell's plan for a nominated Parliament.
Titles such as Idlewild (starring OutKast) and the brilliant Hustle & Flow (with an Oscar-nominated Terrence Howard) virtually evaporated on contact with the market here, as did the family comedy This Christmas.
As the soaring insurgent-outsider in a crowded field with a front-loaded nominating calendar, Dr. Dean drew intense criticism from all corners, and whenever he responded to one attack, he risked helping the others in the field.
