Mr Weiner faces several rivals for the Democratic mayoral nomination, which will be decided at a primary election in September.
On paper, the parties are committed to a primary election in late May, to choose a single candidate for the presidency.
The health secretary is far more capable than any of Labour's three other declared hopefuls of beating Mr Livingstone in a primary election.
Mr. ESQUIVEL: I've been explaining this for a long time to my readers that a caucus and a primary election are very different situations.
Under the bipartisan act, interest groups were banned from airing adverts that named a candidate for office in the 60 days before a general election and 30 days before a primary election.
The indictment unsealed Wednesday in the Bronx against Nelson Castro alleges he lied under oath during a civil proceeding concerning his eligibility for placement on the ballot in a primary election for the 86th Assembly District in 2008.
Mr Clinton's efforts to be all things to all men were at their worst in the first year of his administration, because he had come through a primary election in which he had faced strong challengers of all complexions.
The last time the Chicago area had a special primary election for Congress was 2009 after Rahm Emanuel left his seat to take a job as White House chief of staff.
Polls indicated he would lose heavily in a Republican primary election to Marco Rubio, who is backed by tea partyers.
Other newcomers who chalked up major losses in recent years include Texas Republican Mike Conaway (who lost a special-election primary for a House seat to now-Rep. Randy Neugebauer), Jindal (who was the Republican nominee for Louisiana governor in 2003), Schwartz (who lost a Democratic primary for Senate in Pennsylvania) and Schwarz (who lost a Republican primary for governor in Michigan).
Eduardo Frei, Chile's current president, also faced a primary before his election in 1993.
It was a primary and an election fraught with conversation about gender, feminism, race and equality.
Were the Democrats to anticipate a fake primary, and time the recall election for 10 weeks following certification rather than six, the GOP would, no doubt, stay away from such a primary, resulting in the recall election happening a month before the November general elections.
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Their proposal would require quicker disclosure of contributors to any broadcast commercials targeting specific candidates within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election.
Among other things, McCain-Feingold forbids corporations or unions from paying to broadcast electioneering messages about candidates within 30 days of a primary or 60 days before a general election.
The flaw in this argument is that winning a Democratic primary is quite different from winning a general election.
Georgia will have a big primary but should remain Republican unless a candidate ill-suited for the general election sneaks through the primary.
But isn't moving to the centre just sensible politics as the primary turns into a general election?
McCain-Feingold sought to address this problem by prohibiting corporate and union funding of broadcast ads mentioning a candidate within thirty days of a primary or a caucus or within sixty days of a general election.
Mitt Romney has secured his place as the Republican challenger to Barack Obama in November's US presidential election, following a primary in Texas.
Political experts and fellow candidates said the super PAC money made all the difference, particularly in an election with a short primary and low voter turnout.
In 2002, Congress passed another reform that made it illegal for business and unions to use their funds for "electioneering" purposes within 30 days of a primary or 60 days before an election.
When Caraway did well enough in the primary election to earn a spot in a runoff (which he lost), I wrote a column lamenting that the candidate found a market for his fear mongering and noting that the same was true for George Wallace.
And we must realize that begun, this primary season, there is a general election and if we don't begin to focus early, then it's almost too late to get into the game for the general, and have a possibility of winning it.
The winner of the Republican primary is considered a favorite in the general election.
In Washington, too, many Republicans are more worried about a primary challenge than they are about the general election.
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Palin has delivered on change in Alaskan politics---she defeated an incumbent governor in the gubernatorial primary and a former governor during the 2006 election.
This week, a conversation with Senator Joe Lieberman, who's defending his seat against opponent Ned Lamont in Connecticut's Democratic Primary next Tuesday, a run-off election in Congress Woman's Cynthia McKinney's District also coming up.
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