Word: conventioners
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7. Suggest her supporters insist that she fight all the way to the convention, lest they be alienated and vote for John McCain.
4. Argue that since elected (a.k.a "pledged") and automatic (a.k.a "super") delegates can change their minds at the convention, even an apparent Obama majority doesn't mean he will have a majority in Denver.
Faulks is a graceful writer with a bracing cold streak and a sharp eye for period detail (Bond's girl of the moment drives a white Sunbeam Alpine). But by now, Bond is so bound by convention--there must be exotic settings (Paris, Persia, Russia) and vehicles (the unstoppable Ekranoplan...
"An Immensely Difficult Time ..." The stiffest challenge McCain's team faces is the nation's surly mood, which, if surveys are right, is only turning darker. From the giddy confines of the McCain campaign plane in late April, it was easy to imagine the Democratic Party bickering all the way...
On a separate Obama campaign conference call an hour later, one reporter asked David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, why Obama shouldn't be magnanimous, since he can afford to allow both delegations to be seated and still win the nomination, given his large lead in delegates -including superdelegates, those...