The political class once pronounced him unelectable because of his conservative social views, abrasive manner and poor appeal to women.
As a result the Tea Party is now often associated with fringe or unelectable candidates, social issues and money-grubbing political insiders.
Ed Miliband was said to be finished and unelectable and the subject of muttering, if not, plots in the Labour Party.
Ken Clarke has the backers to mount a bid, but his fanatical Europeanism, age and uncertain appetite for opposition make him unelectable.
To my mind they helped make Barry Goldwater unelectable in 1964.
Many feared they had chosen an unelectable intellectual as their leader.
That Ron Paul, who is unelectable, appeals to many small-business owners only proves what a sorry job the other candidates have done to win hearts and minds.
He tried to position himself as a centrist candidate in his Senate run, as opposed to Ms. McMahon, who he argued was unelectable in the general election.
And Huckabee is the one candidate who's probably most unelectable.
Mr Santorum does, after all, have negatives of his own, the main one being a divisive social agenda that threatens to make him unelectable as president even if he does win the Republican nomination.
His second and related plan is to energise atheists, whom he regards as being in the same situation as homosexuals were 50 years ago: stigmatised and unelectable to public office (in America, at least).
Still, in finally reaching the presidency, Lula has defied many forecasts of failure: many pundits argued that a former metalworker, lacking secondary schooling let alone a university degree, was unelectable in a basically conservative country.
Stephanie, is that a fair criticism and is this campaign damaging either her or Senator Obama to the point where they are becoming unelectable - where each of them is having an electability problem in the fall?
These fatwas explain the rum list of candidates: you either have to be an unelectable extremist who genuinely believes all this, or a dissembler prepared to tie yourself in ever more elaborate knots (the flexible Mr Romney).
In 1964, the Republican Party was unhappily split going into the primaries that year, between a hard-edged, populist true believer who many feared might prove unelectable (Goldwater then, Palin today) and a wealthy northeastern governor distrusted by the base as wishy-washy (Rockefeller then, Romney today).
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