Maybe some candidates fell safer waiting in the background while the others make fools of themselves and then drop out.

Brown was thought to be the domino that would make the rest of the coaching candidates fall in line.

The candidates fell silent, convinced that the voters would pay no attention whatever they said.

If a candidate falls outside the priorities, don't interview him.

But he acknowledges that some candidates fall through the cracks.

But the candidate, a 73-year-old former paratrooper, fell far short of the support he had hoped for.

All the while, the major candidates are falling into the textbook strategies.

The character issue takes aim at the degree to which a candidate falls short of that state, as candidates and most human beings do.

Borrow was selected to fight the seat at the last minute after the previous candidate fell ill.

Two other candidates who expect to run in the primary fell far behind the others in fund-raising.