McCain version 1.0 ran in the 2000 Republic Party primaries and was the early front runner.
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There is talk of the Knesset speaker, Avraham Burg, running against Mr Barak in the Labour Party primaries.
And, as Robert Caro's multivolume biography of Lyndon Johnson reminds us, Hispanics historically hold the keys to victory, at least in party primaries.
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However, the candidates will have already been sieved at the party primaries and their natural first choices might be missing from the ballot papers.
We in fact have watched longtime prominent conservatives lose their own party primaries because of the most vocal ideologues and partisans in their own party.
Unlike all the other party primaries that have been held over the years, this one is designed not as a preparatory step ahead of general elections to the Knesset.
Ms. Quinn has been walking a tightrope: continued opposition would upset the liberal voters who turn out for party primaries, while yielding would leave her open to criticism from the business community in November's general election.
For her part, Ms. Quinn has been walking a tightrope: Open opposition would upset the liberal voters who turn out for party primaries, while yielding would leave her open to criticism from the business community in November's general election.
The late Vicente Saadi, Ramon's father, was the only Justicialist governor to back him in the party primaries for the 1989 presidential contest, and provided him with many of the political contacts that brought him eventually to the presidency.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) provided one in Congress and the Republican Party presidential primaries, but he is retiring.
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The hallmark of the mid-western Democrats is a virtue usually scorned in their party's primaries: pragmatism.
Registered party members can vote only in their own party's primaries, but independents can vote in either.
Gingrich is simply taking a page from the Republican playbook on Obamacare and turning it against his own Party for the primaries.
Quasi-formal campaigning has become much longer and more intense since the 1970s, when party reforms made primaries the sole mechanism through which presidential candidates were selected.
Even so, immigration remained a toxic issue in the Republican Party's primaries, in which almost every candidate vied to be tougher than the next on illegal immigration.
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If Mr Romney becomes the Republican nominee his wealth, and the way he earned it, could damage him in the general election, just as it has in his own party's primaries.
But their tea-party rivals in the primaries pulled them well to the right.
The election is in November, but there are at least five serious Democratic candidates and a number of Republicans vying for party nods in September primaries.
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In most primaries the party quickly coalesces around a winner.
That could leave Mr Zedillo overseeing the party's first presidential primaries with only one runner, his own.
Both states were stripped of their delegates by the national Democratic Party after they violated party rules and moved their primaries to January.
But there could be a kink in that plan -- Michigan and Florida broke party rules by moving their primaries up into January.
The committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee meets Friday and Saturday in Washington to consider what to do with Florida and Michigan, which broke ranks to hold primaries earlier than party rules allowed.
Richard Lugar and Orrin Hatch -- both stalwarts of the GOP who have committed apostasy by trying to work across party lines -- face primaries this season that imperil their survival: A poll Thursday morning found Lugar down 5 points to a tea party-backed challenger in Indiana, and Hatch failed to secure a 60% supermajority at his party's convention in Utah, sending his race to a primary.
Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean expressed satisfaction Wednesday with the primaries and what the Super Tuesday results mean for his party.
This year, he notes, several relative moderates pitted by redistricting in primaries against tea-party types managed to survive.
Firstly, it is sobering to watch the downcast way in which the Democratic party faithful are trudging towards the primaries.
Super Tuesday, when each party will hold more than 20 primaries in the same day, is a week from tomorrow.
In its 2008 primaries, the Democratic Party made a historic pivot.
Even Dole's stumbling in early caucuses and primaries could not overcome the party's faith in riding its lead horse.
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