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Nobody should count him out of the race. Strong, thoughtful, considerate, powerful, experienced -- a long shot for sure in Democratic circles, but as the other candidates start to winnow out, you never can tell what happens. – Tom Barrack	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The DNC is using polling to winnow the field even further, when its voters and caucus-goers who should be determining our nominee. – Shannon Beckham	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Mr. Flood participated in the formation of the very procedures the agencies used to winnow down the millions of documents and identify those that are responsive to the subpoenas. – Assistant Attorney General Christina Grossi	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We're at step one, not step seven, the entire planning process is supposed to do this: start out big and winnow down. – David Bernhardt	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The entire planning process is supposed to do this: start out big and winnow down. – David Bernhardt	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Iowa's role isn't to pick the eventual nominee, it's to winnow the field. – Amalie Nash	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They realize that only one of them can move onto the next contest after the first two (states), they realize you have to winnow down this field of establishment candidates to just one and the only way you're going to do it at this point is to start taking the other ones out. – Monmouth University	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It only makes sense that these numbers will winnow down over time, the undercard people don’t really have a place to move forward. – Sean Evans	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You can’t scoop everywhere, it takes weeks to do those activities, so you have to winnow places down using the cameras. Their resolution and color capability help identify the best possible places. – Jim Bell	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

Nobody should count him out of the race. Strong, thoughtful, considerate, powerful, experienced -- a long shot for sure in Democratic circles, but as the other candidates start to winnow out, you never can tell what happens.

– Tom Barrack

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The DNC is using polling to winnow the field even further, when its voters and caucus-goers who should be determining our nominee.

– Shannon Beckham

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Mr. Flood participated in the formation of the very procedures the agencies used to winnow down the millions of documents and identify those that are responsive to the subpoenas.

– Assistant Attorney General Christina Grossi

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We're at step one, not step seven, the entire planning process is supposed to do this: start out big and winnow down.

– David Bernhardt

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The entire planning process is supposed to do this: start out big and winnow down.

– David Bernhardt

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Iowa's role isn't to pick the eventual nominee, it's to winnow the field.

– Amalie Nash

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They realize that only one of them can move onto the next contest after the first two (states), they realize you have to winnow down this field of establishment candidates to just one and the only way you're going to do it at this point is to start taking the other ones out.

– Monmouth University

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It only makes sense that these numbers will winnow down over time, the undercard people don’t really have a place to move forward.

– Sean Evans

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You can’t scoop everywhere, it takes weeks to do those activities, so you have to winnow places down using the cameras. Their resolution and color capability help identify the best possible places.

– Jim Bell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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