Word: garner
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...system of dozens of primaries and caucuses may be cumbersome, complicated, convoluted and confusing, but all the voters have to do is vote. The candidates and their strategists must devise ways to negotiate the upcoming months of democracy-in-action so as to garner the delegate totals necessary to win nomination. There are 3331 delegates to the Democratic convention and 1993 to the Republican. It isn't easy...
Larry Powers, press secretary for the Brown campaign, says his candidate must garner more than the 13 per cent he picked up in the Maine caucuses February 10. Otherwise "we will have to immediately reassess the whole campaign." But he does not think a reassessment of the Brown campaign would necessarily portend its demise. Says Powers: "Brown has said that whatever the New Hampshire results are, he still wants to campaign...
...stressing Florida, where he believes his name recognition is higher and where he will stage a more extensive media campaign than he has in New England. Cronin expects Crane to "run with the front-runners," meaning that if Bush receives 35 per cent of the Florida vote, Crane will garner 25 per cent...
...month ago Brown was so worried about the embarassing possibility of having a zero next to his name on television screens across the nation that he told his Iowa supporters to try to win election as uncommitted delegates. And although Brown did manage to garner 11.5 per cent of the vote in Maine's caucuses this week, he was able to pick up only two delegates. Brown's showing was respectable only in comparison to his pathetic performance earlier in the race...
Next came McCloskey, posting a pool record of 2:17.6 in the 200-yd. individual medley to garner her first of three individual victories on the afternoon. She also won the 200 fly and the 200 free, in addition to her place on the victorious medley relay...