Candidacy

Jim Moore, “The mission of the Palin candidacy is to inject sarcasm, hate, poisonous invective into the US Presidential Campaign.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

The truth is, Senator McCain, your candidacy is the worst for women in recent history. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From my point of view his candidacy is a hoax on America. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war — not so much the war in Iraq, which now has a mo­mentum that will propel the occupation into the next decade — but the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Garreau's candidacy is unusual partly because she's Native American -- the South Dakota legislature has few Native members -- but also because she's so positive, said Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association executive director Gay Kingman, another Cheyenne River tribal member: I've watched her spend her life working for others, doing much good with few resources. ❋ Stephanie Woodard (2010)

Because Bill Brady's candidacy is a serious threat to personal liberty in the state of Ilinois. ❋ Terry Cosgrove (2010)

When Lisa announced her write-in candidacy Mitch McConnell and the other members of the Senate Republican caucus of which she was a leader responded to her refusal to support Joe Miller by disowning her. ❋ Donald Craig Mitchell (2010)

While the GOP Senator and his daughter are both Republicans, O'Donnell's candidacy is by no means the first issue to split the pair in their political views. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

The three-way Alaska Senate race remains very much a toss-up and by far the biggest wild card, given the hard to measure write-in candidacy of incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski, although either Murkowski or Republican nominee Joe Miller would caucus with the Republicans. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

The rise, fall, and rejuvenation of Hillary Clinton forms the heart of the story, and her candidacy is particularly fascinating -- both regarding her own decisions and actions as well as in the reactions she engendered. ❋ AJ Rossmiller (2010)

The trouble with that rationale for McAdams's candidacy is that in 2008 when Alaska voters turned Ted Stevens out of office after forty years in the Senate, Lisa Murkowski inherited Ted's seat on the Appropriations Committee. ❋ Donald Craig Mitchell (2010)

Murkowski announced Thursday that she raised $200,000 during the two weeks after she announced her write-in candidacy in mid-September. ❋ Chris Cillizza (2010)