During the primary season, religious-right leaders could not unite around a candidate.

This was a change to his earlier suggestion that it might be better for the party to unite around a single candidate.

The board plans to wrap up its interviews today and could, officials said, make a decision if a majority coalesces around a single candidate.

Can small towns coalesce again around a particular candidate in the general election?

Officials in both parties hope to unite early around a single candidate.

Such an interval would give both parties a chance to rally around a single candidate in an orderly manner.

I think this party is ready to galvanize around a candidate and a cause.

As the 2000 Presidential campaign gets under way, religious conservative groups are fractured and unable to coalesce around a single candidate.

Republican and Conservative party leaders have said they hope to avoid a repeat of that scenario this year by coalescing around a single candidate.

Polls, however, show that if the opposition united around a single candidate, that person could win.