These other candidates are said to ride on the presidential candidates' coattails. Obama's coattails allowed Democrats to win the remaining Republican held judicial seats. This ensured that he was not accused of winning the office on the presidential coattails. He was helped by the coattails from Ronald Reagan's landslide re-election victory. The race was close again, but this time he won, riding on Jimmy Carter's coattails. Guyuk and Buri, jealous of Batu, accused Batu of incompetence and riding Subutai's coattails. It's a pretty song, if one that blatantly rides Adele's coattails. In effect, the other candidates are said to ride on his coattails. Clinton's narrow loss was viewed as part of Reagan's coattails. He pulled the vanished rabbit from the coattails of a spectator. Mother would catch him by the coattails and plead, 'Shush, Doctor, shush'. Spiral is a 2007 American psychological thriller produced by Coattails Entertainment and Ariescope Pictures.