You won't hear that from the major-party candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2000] Reference

And he did it by naming the first woman on a major-party ticket.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2008] Reference

And, if you look at the major-party tickets, it's even more striking.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2006] Reference

Oh, and Mark Pryor of Arkansas doesn't even have a major-party opponent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Geiger: Senate Predictions Part One: The Races Already Over] Reference

I can't remember a more scurrilous statement by a major-party candidate.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2008] Reference

All of the four major-party candidates are four-square in favor of executing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2000] Reference

Little more needs saying about Obama's historic background as a major-party candidate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teddy Wayne: Goobama: Obama Is the Google Candidate] Reference

As the first black major-party nominee, Obama attracted black voters in unprecedented numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Bloat] Reference

And they -- they're putting on a show, and they're going to sell it to major-party candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2000] Reference

And, in 1944, both major-party nominees, FDR and Governor Tom Dewey, were from the Empire State.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2006] Reference

Between 1868 and 1948, someone from New York was on a major-party ticket in all but two elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2006] Reference

If you say Nader -- a vote for Nader right now will get the attention of the two major-party candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2000] Reference

The major-party nominees for federal office are usually pretty good at assessing their own self-interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Econosphere: 'Elizabeth Warren or bust'] Reference

The study looked at donations to the two major-party presidential nominees in the last three election cycles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Heavily Favor Obama in Donations] Reference

Here is a statistic for Obama to ponder: Roughly 50% of all major-party nominees go on to lose the general election.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Stood Athwart History] Reference

Former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw will moderate one of the debates between the two major-party gubernatorial candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brokaw To Referee Whitman-Brown Debate] Reference

DONAHUE: Well, this is an arbitrary figure chosen by the third party -- by both major-party candidates, both major parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2000] Reference

We've never had a major-party presidential front-runner who is black, or rather black and white, who has given such an address.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thinking Man's Speech] Reference

His is a sees-his-chances campaign, waiting to pounce as a result of voter dissatisfaction with the two major-party candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Haul] Reference

Nonetheless, mounting a write-in campaign proved a pretty fruitless venture, and the voters stuck with the major-party nominees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The tortured history of write-in candidates] Reference

Also, Donna Brazile talks about how proud she was in casting a vote for the first African-American major-party presidential nominee.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2008] Reference

Such questions were conspicuously neglected by the major-party presidential candidates this year, but they cannot be ignored forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prison Paradox] Reference

Besides the reimbursement issue, both major-party candidates have outlined big changes in the health-care system that could affect GE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curing What Ails GE's Health Unit] Reference

It is, to say the least, unusual for a major-party presidential campaign to clash so openly and unsubtly with a major news organization.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Rules] Reference

But there is fresh evidence many rank-and-file evangelicals are open to looking elsewhere if both major-party nominees support abortion rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2007] Reference

Minnesotans elected independent Jesse Ventura governor in 1998, and some 15 percent of them picked neither major-party candidate in this Senate race.    From Wordnik.com.  [ProPublica: The Scoop on the MN Senate Race Recount] Reference

The Socialist Party's Norman Thomas, running for president again that year, had a strong basis for his critique of both major-party candidates in 1932.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Solomon: Party Like It's 1932: The Obama Option] Reference

Sometimes the major-party candidates are so cravenly bland or neglectful of a constituency that they propel an alienated outsider into making a run for office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Micah Sifry: Bloomberg's Day] Reference

Since 1984, only one major-party presidential candidate -- Bill Clinton in 1992 -- has refused to release the tax forms he sent to the Internal Revenue Service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Camp, Getting Down To Business, Slams Hillary On Tax Returns] Reference

He pointed out that for his candidacy to make any sense, Mr. Bloomberg would need a truly polarizing major-party mach-up -- say, Hillary Clinton vs. Mitt Romney.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayor McTease] Reference

The presidency has to be earned, and Americans have a right to know much more about the gifted man who is the least experienced major-party nominee in modern times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obama We Don't Know] Reference

The differences between the two major-party political conventions are starkly obvious even from a distance, but the small details up close are what catch your attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Republican National Convention: Politics and Power] Reference

The presence, on a major-party ticket, of a woman who openly opposed the recognized feminist agenda threatened both the goals and the spirit of Hillary's historic campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lindsey Horvath: A Feminist Convert] Reference

While Jersey's independent candidate Chris Daggett (site) is promoting a 30-second YouTube plea that, despite his lack of major-party backing, he's the one for the governor's job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Pages of the Home Stretch] Reference