sympathy vote

Don't tell me you think that this is going to get her the sympathy vote?

"It might get him a little bit of a sympathy vote for five minutes," he said.

Others believe he has made the whole thing up just to win a few sympathy votes.

It was so obvious on the air that I began to get the sympathy vote.

Without really thinking all that much about it, you begin to make sympathy votes.

But for one moment, women knew just how Hillary felt, and they gave her a sympathy vote.

It’s not hard to think of other campaigns where the sympathy vote came up short.

President Bush says he is not asking for a sympathy vote, even if it sometimes sounds like that.

Instead, it was the potential to score a sympathy vote that caught the producers’ eyes.

It won't surprise me to see them in the audience either - anything for the sympathy vote.

A sympathy vote isn’t going to take place inside that committee room in Indianapolis next weekend.

He can make your life miserable, and the sympathy votes only take you so far.

But he cautioned that his was never a sympathy vote.

Way to blow a chance at the sympathy votes by making it sound like fun!

If he insists on running, will his cancer bring him sympathy votes?

I'd hate to say it, but he's probably also getting some sympathy votes due to his age.

So she may get a very strong sympathy vote.

There has been talk of a big sympathy vote.

Will there be a sympathy vote among those who have yet to cast their ballots in June?

Because he was recovering from cancer, Strawberry had the sympathy vote.

Today he knew that he might have the sympathy vote behind him.

I don’t think he’s going for the sympathy vote.

Bhutto's party wants the election held because it will get the sympathy vote.

I'm hoping he'll get some sympathy votes since he had the flu this week.

That race suggests a brief shelf life for the sympathy vote.