Deletion of Jon Powers

Comment: There's quite a bit of independent coverage of his campaigns http://news.google.com.au/archivesearch?q=%22jon+powers%22+congress&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&ned=au&scoring=a here. In my view, the Buffalo News coverage meets WP:RS; and Powers is thus the subject of significant coverage. Accordingly, he meets  notwithstanding the failure to meet any criteria of . But not a strong keep by any means; Wikipedia will not be at a loss if this article is deleted
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: no notability shown apart from his candidacy. I do not agree that the GNG trumps . If that were so, POLITICIAN would be a dead letter, because every political candidate can show press cuttings ''based on his candidacy.'' If you read the  in full, you will see that it says that sufficient coverage means a subject is ''presumed'' to satisfy the inclusion criteria, and a bullet point below says that this is "''a presumption, not a guarantee, that a subject is suitable for inclusion. Editors may reach a consensus that although a topic meets this criterion, it is not appropriate for a standalone article.''" I say that  constitutes such a consensus that, in order to prevent Wikipedia being used as an election soapbox, references concerned with a political candidacy do not constitute notability
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:GNG)

Comment: Sounds like a fine young man, but non-notable. Fails  or  if you want to claim he was an actor
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:ENT)