clown-car primary

English

Etymology

clown car +‎ primary

Noun

clown car primary (plural clown-car primaries)

(US) A primary election with a large number of serious candidates, usually more than four, making it possible that the winner will have been chosen by only a small portion of the electorate.
- 2016, Joshua Holland, The Nation, "Big GOP Donors Are to Blame for Their Party's Clown-Car Primary"
  They can shake their heads over the seething anger in the Republican electorate, but this nasty and never-ending "clown car primary" is a problem of their own creation.
- 2015, Michael Page, This Is Your Government On Drugs, Xlibris Corporation, p. 282
  The Republicans held a clown-car primary in 2012 with a dozen debates where their credo of hewing to the party line (more conservative than thou) prevented any candidate from emerging looking presidential.
- 2012, Jon Ponder, Pensito Review, Two Months into Republicans' Clown Car Primary, WSJ/NBC Poll Finds Voters Turning against the GOP – Again

单词	clown-car primary
释义	clown-car primary English Etymology clown car +‎ primary Noun clown car primary (plural clown-car primaries) (US) A primary election with a large number of serious candidates, usually more than four, making it possible that the winner will have been chosen by only a small portion of the electorate. 2016, Joshua Holland, The Nation, "Big GOP Donors Are to Blame for Their Party's Clown-Car Primary" They can shake their heads over the seething anger in the Republican electorate, but this nasty and never-ending "clown car primary" is a problem of their own creation. 2015, Michael Page, This Is Your Government On Drugs, Xlibris Corporation, p. 282 The Republicans held a clown-car primary in 2012 with a dozen debates where their credo of hewing to the party line (more conservative than thou) prevented any candidate from emerging looking presidential. 2012, Jon Ponder, Pensito Review, Two Months into Republicans' Clown Car Primary, WSJ/NBC Poll Finds Voters Turning against the GOP – Again
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