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...campaign's waning hours, each candidate hunted for every last vote. Polis went door-to-door to meet voters, the culmination of a year of marathon days on the campaign trail. Fitz-Gerald's campaign unleashed what they dubbed a "Fitz Blitz" during the campaign's final weekend, trying to reach voters in 10 counties over four days. For his part, Shafroth says he's hoping for an election surprise. "We've really come back from my initial position, clearly third place, to where we are right there neck and neck coming down the line." With reporting by Laura Fitzpatrick
...extent of the problem - but by that time the failure was out of control. As power lines shut off, electricity was channeled through an increasingly narrow part of the grid - until those lines automatically tripped off as well, to prevent damage from the unsafe levels of electrical current. The final result was midnight darkness in New York City's Times Square. "It required a number of things to go wrong on the same day," says Jeffrey Daigle, chief electrical engineer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. "Any one of those things happens on a fairly routine basis, but to create...
...Athens, in fact, that was on Lezak's mind as he made the turn into the final. "I'm not going to lie, but when I flipped and saw how far ahead [Bernard] was, and he's the world record holder, the thought caught my mind for a split second of: 'There's no way.' But I changed that, and said, 'This is ridiculous. This is the Olympics. I'm here for the United States of America, and I don't care how bad it hurts. So I got supercharged and took it from there...
...women's bid against the Chinese for the team gold, also aggravated a fickle ankle on a tumbling combination. The second mishap's timing clearly rattled the team, which looked jittery on the first few events of the afternoon. In the end, the U.S. safely qualified for the team final Wednesday 1.475 points behind China, and Americans Shawn Johnson (the only member of the team to draw a chant of "U-S-A, U-S-A" with her balance beam routine) and Nastia Liukin sit in first and second place in the individual all-around competition - but getting there...
...took to the first rotation on floor exercise - an event at which the U.S. generally excels. Sacramone, a former world champion on floor, unexpectedly stepped out of bounds, costing her a deduction and lowering her score by enough of a margin to keep her out of the individual event final, in which she was expected to finish on the podium. "I missed out on the floor exercise finals, which is sad," she says, "but you get hyped up, and throw a little too much power into it, and before you know it, you're out of bounds...