1.   John Bryant, a congressman and the preferred party candidate, was swept aside.

2.   Seventeen percent of likely voters picked Stark as their preferred candidate.

3.   At his guilty plea, DeCanio explained that he had hoped his preferred candidate would fill in the ballots fraudulently to guarantee his victory.

4.   But gay political leaders in the district, the Massachusetts Ninth, have put Lynch, a Democrat, near the bottom of their list of preferred candidates.

5.   Divisions within the Clinton administration have delayed the selection of a preferred candidate.

6.   For many years, state governors have been the preferred candidates for president.

7.   He then instructed them in how to asssure that the ballots were cast in favor of the preferred candidates.

8.   Iberia had openly said BA and American Airlines were its preferred candidates.

9.   In response, Zedillo met with PRI functionaries and governors last week, reiterating that he had no preferred candidate.

10.   It must have been embarrassing for Clinton to watch Israeli voters reject his preferred candidate.