Word: strongest
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...potential mayoral candidate, Ray Flynn. Flynn placed well in almost every precinct and topped the ticket in most wards. Following the repudiation of the Kevin Seven (candidates backed by Mayor Kevin H. White) in the preliminary, an improvement by Flynn over his strong vote would make him White's strongest challenger for the mayoral race...
...spelled the same as the late Speaker of the U.S. House, John McCormack, and his nephew, former city councilor and lieutenant governor, Edward McCormack) and a good connection (he worked for Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti). Bolling, the only Kevin Seven candidate with a chance, is the strongest Black candidate and has the substantial support of his father, a former State Rep., and his brother, a current State Rep. Both Bolling and McCormack get most of their support from communities that will turn out in greater numbers in the final than in the primary...
...they hadn't, no candidate appealed directly to them, and none benefited from their support. This year, though, Wilkes identified herself from the start as a liberal, except on housing issues, where she favors the right of some tenants to buy their own apartments as condominiums and is at strongest equivocal in her support of rent control...
...team's performance confirmed its domination of the league this year, and coach John Babington said afterwards that his charges now have a "legitimate claim to being the strongest team ever in the Ivies...
Because the weakest candidates are taken out of the race faster than the strongest ones, the losing candidates' transfer ballots play the most decisive transfer role in the PR system...