Word: focusing
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...tonight’s tie for us,” Morin said. “Lately we’ve been faced with some adversity on the penalty kill. From the forwards down to the D, everyone really came together and kind of made a team effort to focus on the penalty kill and get the job done.” Both teams were scoreless in the third period, and the game went into overtime. In the final moments, Dufault shot a one-timer at the Bobcats goal, but Quinnipiac netminder Bud Fisher was too quick. Meintel had another chance...
...receive attention from the candidates before the party conventions. This inequality is unfair and undemocratic. According to a November National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, earlier voters can have up to 20 times the influence of later voters in the primaries. This distorts the issues that candidates focus on and shuts certain states out of the selection process. There is no reason we should allow Iowa or New Hampshire to hold a privileged position in primary season every four years. Instead of starting with the same states during every election, we ought to rotate the states that have...
...difficult to overcome as the campaign moves on. In South Carolina, which holds its primary on Jan. 26, half the Democratic electorate is African-American; though many have been wary of Obama's chances so far, that could change if he starts to pile up victories. Clinton might instead focus her attention on Nevada, which holds its caucus a week earlier, in hopes of snaring a victory there on presumably friendlier turf. But if Obama continues to gain strength - particularly in the face of attacks by Clinton's campaign - he undercuts her argument that she is the strongest and most...
...news for McCain could be good news for Barack Obama, who has been leading among independent voters in recent polls and has tailored his message to focus on his ability to work across party lines. His first TV ad in New Hampshire featured a Republican, Illinois state senator Kirk Dillard, praising Obama for bipartisanship during his eight years in the state senate...
...Mitt Romney - who grew up in Michigan and whose father was Governor of the state in the '60s - is making a serious bid tailored to independents' tastes. Though Romney pitched himself as a social conservative to Iowa's Republicans, his ads in Michigan and South Carolina focus on "economic pragmatism," says spokesman Kevin Madden. One ad specifically written for Michigan declares that Romney's gubernatorial experience in Massachusetts makes him well suited to help Michigan's ailing economy...