Even if Romney pulls out the nomination, the primary campaign is weakening him.
Republican voters perceive Mitt Romney as lacking authenticity, and should he fail to win the nomination, that will be the primary reason.
She sought the Conservative Party nomination but was defeated in the primary.
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The new primary schedule will compress the nomination process into about four weeks, with more than half America's states and three-quarters of its population voting in a feverish eight-day spell in March.
All the same, it was a shock to pretty much everyone that, in August of 1934, Sinclair won the Democratic nomination, with more votes than any primary candidate in California had ever won before.
Mr Weiner faces several rivals for the Democratic mayoral nomination, which will be decided at a primary election in September.
But less than a month before the runoff, Vinroot opted out, giving the nomination to Ballantine and avoiding a potentially divisive primary fight.
The last time California played a crucial role in selecting a presidential nominee was in 1972 when George McGovern's victory in the state's primary propelled him to the Democratic nomination.
W. Bush, in his bid for the Republican nomination that year, went into the May 20 primary badly trailing front-runner Ronald Reagan.
Barry Goldwater won the 1964 Republican nomination probably because he beat Nelson Rockefeller in the California primary.
Fans of a nomination fight will point to this forced exit as the primary process living up to its purpose.
Mitt Romney has narrowly won Maine's primary caucuses in the race for the Republican presidential nomination with 39.2% of the vote.
Wilson is considered a possible contender for his party's nomination in 2000, and would likely benefit from a California primary date change.
Reagan narrowly lost that primary--and thus, ultimately, the nomination.
Romney has long been thought of as the Republican frontrunner, but his struggles to string together wins in the primary season threaten to drag the battle for the nomination into a protracted delegate fight.
One explanation could be that New Jersey's primary did not occur until June, long after the nomination was all but decided.
Richardson withdrew from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination January 10, after a poor showing in the New Hampshire primary, and later endorsed Obama.
And there's still a number of voters out there looking for somebody in the Republican primary that sort of carries what they want to the nomination.
Although Humphrey got in the race after the filing deadlines for every remaining primary had passed, and thus never won a single primary, he went on to easily win the Democratic nomination.
But even with the outcome of the nomination all but certain, South Dakotans feel that Tuesday's primary has put them on the political map, says Bob Burns, head of the political science department at South Dakota State University.
John McCain was the primary opponent for George W. Bush for the Republican presidential nomination.
He abandoned his attempt to win the Republican nomination in April when it became obvious he could not beat Rubio in a primary.
However, as actual voting began in the Primary elections - which decide which candidate secures the party's nomination - there was a shift.
John Edwards dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday, a day after his dismal showing in the Florida Democratic primary.
Clinton made it while talking to a small newspaper in South Dakota about the biggest question in her campaign: Why is she still running for the Democratic presidential nomination, even though Obama has a nearly locked-in lead and the primary season ends in just a few days?
The key to the Democratic nomination could be the county Democratic organizations, which decide on ballot position in the primary.
There was little mention of politics a day after the city's mayoral primary, in which Republican businessman Michael Bloomberg clinched his party's nomination.
It was a lonely win, though, since Romney's rivals have been concentrating their efforts on the concurrent primary in South Carolina: a state that has consistently foretold the Republican nomination since 1980.
And, after a roller-coaster primary season, he has wrapped up the Democratic party's 2004 presidential nomination.
The last time Oregon had much weight in the primary season was in 1968, when Robert Kennedy was campaigning for the Democratic nomination.
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