A star candidate refers to a high profile individual who has been recruited as a candidate by a political party. Star candidates have usually excelled in fields outside of politics such as academia, business, the media, journalism and/or sports. They are also either retired high-profile politicians who have been lured back into politics or a big-city mayor or provincial premier/state governor who has been convinced to enter federal politics. Or former politicians that have been lured to run at another level to attain high-profile positions at that level.
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Famous quotes containing the words star and/or candidate:
“O star of morning and of liberty!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
“I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question—to be defended from the beginning to the end.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)