Word: genericism
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...Polls show that people would strongly prefer to elect a Democrat for President. Republicans are competitive only because Obama and Clinton both do worse in the polls than a generic Democrat, and McCain runs better than a generic Republican. If McCain becomes a Bush Republican, as the Democrats hope, he will no longer stand a chance...
...over and over, but squeezes in risk information only once and just after the halfway mark. You won't see it on TV anymore - the drug maker pulled the ad in January after releasing results of a two-year trial that showed Vytorin was no better than a cheaper generic statin drug at preventing heart disease - but you can watch our dissection of it below...
...trick people into clicking on a benign-looking link that takes them to the video for Astley's hit Never Gonna Give You Up. By now millions of people have inadvertently watched the video, which came out in 1987, a more innocent time when people actually listened to generic soft-core pop on purpose--the song went...
...History professor Charles S. Maier ’60, a former Crimson editorial chair, likened the Final Report of the Task Force on General Education to a generic floor-plan...
...three-quarters of his wife's supporters said his campaigning was important to them. But Democrats are still likely to support a Democratic nominee in a Democratic year, and national polls suggest trouble for the G.O.P. in almost every state; President Bush?s approval ratings are abysmal, voters trust generic Democrats more than Republicans on every major issue, and Obama and Clinton are both leading McCain even though they?re busy fighting each other. Democrats recently seized congressional seats in conservative districts in Illinois and Louisiana; last night, they grabbed a Mississippi seat in a district that Bush carried...