In this week's Illinois primary a third of the Republican vote went to other candidates, notably John McCain (even though he has withdrawn).
Senator Hillary Clinton made her first trip as a presidential candidate to New Hampshire, home of the nation's first presidential primary a year from now.
Other newcomers who chalked up major losses in recent years include Texas Republican Mike Conaway (who lost a special-election primary for a House seat to now-Rep. Randy Neugebauer), Jindal (who was the Republican nominee for Louisiana governor in 2003), Schwartz (who lost a Democratic primary for Senate in Pennsylvania) and Schwarz (who lost a Republican primary for governor in Michigan).
But he has the good fortune of not facing a primary challenge, not having a primary contest.
Too often I have seen investors sell a stock that is just undergoing a secondary reaction in a primary bull market or buy a stock that is undergoing a secondary reaction in a primary bear market.
They have a primary and a secondary containment structure, both made from thick reinforced concrete, to protect against the release of radioactive materials.
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The standard beneficiary form that you fill out when you open the account usually only requires that you name a primary and a secondary beneficiary.
McCain-Feingold sought to address this problem by prohibiting corporate and union funding of broadcast ads mentioning a candidate within thirty days of a primary or a caucus or within sixty days of a general election.
Democrats in Texas held a smaller caucus as well as a primary, which Mr Obama appeared to have won along with a primary in Vermont.
Were the Democrats to anticipate a fake primary, and time the recall election for 10 weeks following certification rather than six, the GOP would, no doubt, stay away from such a primary, resulting in the recall election happening a month before the November general elections.
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Intelligence officials briefing the cabinet suggested that violent unrest in Syria was a primary cause for a shift by Hamas.
The overwhelming majority still fear a primary challenge from a more conservative rival more than a general-election campaign against a Democrat.
Yet it will take more than a primary victory in a tiny state to make the Republican establishment adopt McCain Republicanism.
"You just don't change a primary endpoint in a major important trial partway through, " says Bruce Psaty, a drug safety expert at the University of Washington.
From the stories that our financial planners have shared over the years, deciding to convert a primary residence to a rental property can become an extremely emotional experience.
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This would give a person the option to cut out the middleman when buying a primary residence, and could be a great option for primary living interest rates in America.
In a primary school near a huge slum in Dhaka, pupils aged between six and 10 include the children of rickshaw drivers and women who break bricks for a living.
Marge Roukema, a New Jersey Republican known for her willingness to break with her more conservative colleagues, came close to losing her seat this year in a primary battle with a right-wing challenger.
You're talking about going from a primary deficit - that's the deficit, before interest payments on the debt are considered - of 4-5% of GDP in 2010 to a primary surplus of around 10% of GDP.
His comments came during a campaign interview for the February 17 Wisconsin primary with a Milwaukee radio station on Friday.
"Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping, " the statement said.
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He and Curtis Bostic emerged as the top vote-getters in a primary of more than a dozen candidates.
Next year it aims to achieve a primary surplus - ie a budget surplus, excluding the costs it pays to service its debts.
Its found little relation between the supply of primary care doctors in a region the percentage of people who see a primary care doctor each year.
If a primary dealer is liquidating a huge position, it doesn't want that fact known, lest others, smelling a huge sell order, try to crowd ahead of it.
But under current EU law only 10% of allocations can be auctioned from 2008 to 2012: one worry here is that a primary auction could let a big buyer corner the market.
Likewise, primary care doctors are seeing similar phenomena and increasingly there are organizations such as Physician Care Direct and the American Academy of Private Physicians which are setup to transition a primary care practice into a model that can be described as two parts Marcus Welby, one part Steve Jobs.
Moderates and independents remain the core of McCain's support, but after a first flush of enthusiasm immediately following the New Hampshire primary, these voters now seem less likely to participate in Saturday's primary than a week ago.
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It has a more refined auto-focus system so it can acquire the primary subject a little faster.
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