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...stands, which was great especially since it was intersession and a lot of students were away,” co-captain Lindsay Hart said of the team’s strong performance, The meet was only the Crimson’s second after a tough training trip to Florida over winter break. Harvard defeated Penn by a similar 199-96 count on January 12th. “We are still coming off a lot of dry land [training],” said Hart. “Everyone was feeling sore and broken down but really stepped up and swam well...
...this is how it ends for America's Mayor, although he never quite said so in his Florida concession speech last night. He never said he's still a candidate for President either, and he probably would have mentioned that if he were. "I'm proud that we chose to remain positive," he told a sparse crowd of Orlando supporters after finishing a distant third behind John McCain and Mitt Romney. His use of the past tense made his status pretty clear. He said he's still heading to California tomorrow - "I've got my ticket...
...combative nature: "Like most Americans, I love competition. I don't back down from a principled fight." But he stayed out of Iowa, New Hampshire (at least once he fell behind there), Wyoming, Michigan and South Carolina, holding out for a fight he thought he could win in Florida, trying to win a national election on local battlefields of his own choosing. He listened to political operatives who valued big-state delegates more than small-state momentum, and now it looks like he's going to get neither. The humorist Dave Barry suggested that Rudy might be trying to copy...
...avoid the fact that most Floridians' pressing concern is their pocketbooks. The state's housing industry has slumped precipitously in the past year. And while the state's economy is still relatively strong, this decline in its most important economic sector has focused the attention of many Florida Republicans on the solutions candidates have to offer. In SurveyUSA's most recent poll, Romney leads by 17 points among those whose most important issue is the economy. (McCain "leads by 14 points among voters focused on terrorism and by 22 points among voters focused on Iraq.") Much as in the Michigan...
...worst of all, not conservative. This morning saw a 6:00 AM press conference in which the governor railed against the "climate stewardship" legislation sponsored by McCain and Sen. Joe Lieberman (who is stumping for his old friend here). Romney called it "an expensive bill for the people of Florida" whose effect on the environment would be "symbolic." (The McCain campaign points out that as governor, Romney touted a similar, regional approach to greenhouse gases as "good for business...