Candidate and Politician

Candidate

Candidate noun - A politician who is running for public office.

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Politician and candidate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Politician" instead a noun "Candidate".

Nearby Words: candidacy, candidature, candida

Politician noun - A leader engaged in civil administration.

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Candidate and politician are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Candidate" instead a noun "Politician".

good	good candidate	good politician
female	female candidate	female politician
certain	certain candidate	certain politician
rival	rival candidate	rival politician
Other adjectives: liberal, single, popular, real, male, willing, democratic, conservative, major, former, local, Republican.

Strawman Political: While just about every scumbag politician is a Republican (Dakota Bob being more of a Necessary Evil), the Democrats end up endorsing Rayner as their candidate.

Source: Comic Book / The Boys
One candidate, an experienced politician, secretly votes for himself anyways and wins by one vote, but feels so guilty he admits his subterfuge and tries to step down in favor of the other candidate.

Source: Decided By One Vote
Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, arch-conservative Republican politician, activist, pundit, and Presidential candidate, spends much of his free time reading spy novels and reviewing them on Amazon.

Source: One Of Us / Political Geeks

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