Several said they felt pressure to approve marginal candidates.

The question of what to do with marginal candidates comes up all the time, in elections from United States senator to deputy town superviser.

If the Mr. Prospector colt wins impressively, a few marginal candidates may stay home.

For that precise reason, Inferno was regarded as a marginal candidate for terraforming.

"If I'm a sort of a marginal candidate and make more than 95 percent of the people out there, it seems problematic."

And, since 1980, no President has had coattails guaranteed to sweep a marginal candidate into office.

Barry defeated Republican nominee Arthur Fletcher and two marginal candidates in the general election on November 7, 1978.

With so many marginal candidates like herself in the campaign, she was asked, is she getting her messages across?

As a practical matter, the presidential primaries for both parties will not select the marginal candidates who didn't get wiped out on the Hill.

Appearances to the contrary, the college is not more "selective"; indeed, some schools may even "stretch" to admit a marginal candidate early.