Deletion of Patrick Muldoon (politician)

Comment: I believe that this is an unusual case because having an incumbent challenged from the right during the candidate selection process may affect the nominee's position in the general election.  The nominating process is described in Republican Party of Virginia, but it seemed appropriate to have the biographical and background details of both Muldoon and Bolling in separate articles.  I believe we should retain the article at least through the end of May.  If he loses the election, then  would probably be grounds for deletion.  The race has drawn the attention of numerous political blogs, but I did not include cites in the article out of  concerns.  At first, I thought about merging this content into the Bill Bolling article, but opted for a separate article to avoid the appearance that Wikipedia was establishing a juxaposition out of political bias
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ONEEVENT||WP:RS)

Comment: Failed candidates simply do not meet  per ample precedent, and I really see no reason to change that. Getting a nomination, even from a major party, isn't really enough, because if we're being honest about it at least two-thirds of these guys had no real shot at actually getting elected (do we really think United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2008#District 2|this guy is notable for getting 10.6% of the vote?), and I'm probably being conservative with that stat. Besides, in general failed candidate bios are a classic case of , even if arguably the potential Lt. Governor nomination negates that in this case
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:ONEEVENT)

Comment: Subject was a major party nominee for US House of Representatives in 1996. There is AfD precedent for claiming notability in such cases, I believe. At the very least, he is not a  candidate
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ONEEVENT)