Facebook contenders The Trashmen and Cage Against the Machine were at number three and 21.
Nibali and the other major contenders for overall honors finished safely in the main bunch.
Most voters told pollsters that they based their choice on the contenders' honesty and ability.
The contenders are vying for the Republican nomination to face Mr Obama in November 2012's elections.
His prospects are less than robust as he lags a field of potential Socialist contenders.
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Thompson was clearly one of the contenders, though, showing he is knowledgeable about the issues.
Mr. Liu has pitched himself as the furthest to the left of the Democratic contenders.
In this way all the contenders might yet bag a deal in Central Europe.
In fact, eight or nine women are considered contenders for the top three spots.
Excluding fringe candidates, 20 politicians either have declared their candidacy or may become contenders.
But since it was established in 2007, the prize hasn't exactly been jostled with contenders.
The Sabres went from hopeful contenders to dejected rebuilders in the span of three months.
Rentenna said it plans to photograph all contenders and pick a winner via an online vote.
My guess is that Lance can win, but only if other top contenders make big mistakes.
For the past five years, the ACC contenders have played before some disappointing crowds.
Janet Robinson praised the talents of the three contenders, but clearly leaned toward Abramson.
Contenders with narrow sectional, racial or ideological appeal thus have no chance of triumphing.
First, a wide open field of Republican contenders will likely pull hard right, alienating independents.
The two contenders are expected to take part in their first head-to-head televised debate on Wednesday.
Other Democrats seen as possible 2016 presidential contenders have also publicly backed gay unions.
NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro has the second in our series of profiles of the presidential contenders.
The other contenders are Whatmore's fellow Aussies Richard Done and Geoff Lawson, interviewed earlier this week.
As various towns dropped their campaigns, the two final contenders were Cardiff and Caernarfon.
As nominations closed, he had the most backing of the five contenders from Labour MPs.
The other English contenders are Chester, East Kent, Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea, Hull, Leicester, Plymouth, and Southend-on-Sea.
The figures of 82 nominees beats the number of contenders in the 2000 election by 12.
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It is against this bleak background that the leadership contenders' words should be judged.
The Express Tribune has published a useful set of bios of the contenders.
In other election news, five Democratic contenders took their names off Michigan's primary ballot.
Retiring Gov. Pete Wilson (R) is on the list of possible 2000 presidential contenders.
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