Word: contestation
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...watched Harvard explode into a three-goal lead in the first seven minutes in that round one contest, I played “spot the Harvard fans” from the rafters of the TD Banknorth Garden only to find either whole sections of empty seats or rabid Husky fans perplexed that they really had no one in the crowd to heckle...
...race continues to be close after Texas and Ohio, the last big contest - Pennsylvania's April 22 primary - may be the decisive...
...crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where Romney had helped launch his campaign in 2007, called out in despair. But the anguish of activists could not change Romney's fate. He had been bested in nearly every major contest he had entered, save the states he had once called home, Michigan, Utah and Massachusetts. The delegate count made victory nearly impossible. "You guys are great," Romney told the crowd, as people called...
...Democrats, who have been her strongest supporters. Clinton also expects to draw upon institutional support from organized labor. In Texas, her strategists say, the large number of Latino voters will give her an edge, as they did in California. If the race continues to be close, the last big contest, Pennsylvania's April 22 primary, may well be the decisive...
...People are especially jazzed about the Democratic race. For every three votes cast in the Republican primary, there were more than four cast in the Democratic contest. Both of the top Democrats, Obama and Hillary Clinton, won more than twice as many votes as the top Republican finisher, McCain...