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...rival will now continue to have access to plenty of money to contest his unusual campaign in all of the states over the next few weeks, including Nevada, South Carolina, New York and California. He has had to watch Clinton march on to his rhetorical ground, as she overhauls her on-the-stump-image and tries to make the theme of change her new best friend. And perhaps most importantly, she has been kicked to the ground by the voters in the first fortnight of the new year and gotten back on her feet - a huge psychological boost in politics...
...exactly, that unlikely something happened was the result of a combination of forces that the campaign itself is only beginning to untangle. Part of it was the boring stuff - the dull, unglamorous work put in by a disciplined ground operation organized by veteran operative Nick Clemons. Late in the game, the campaign also brought in Michael Whouley, who had helped deliver the state for Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry...
...Hillary Clinton confound the pollsters to win New Hampshire? For one answer, you might look to her campaign's state director Nick Clemons, the 34-year-old veteran of former governor Jeanne Shaheen's political operation, who put together and ran a disciplined ground operation that planned for almost every eventuality. "The heart of our ground game was face-to-face contact," he said in an interview Wednesday morning. "I know that sounds like old ward-style politics, but it really works...
...reduces the sporting world to the same concepts and ideas as everything else, it becomes easy to see why athletics provide such an important lens with which to view society. Because the final product produced in professional sports is ultimately only a diversion, it can serve as a testing-ground for some of society’s most important issues. This is why seminal events like Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball, and John Amaechi becoming the first openly gay former NBA player are so significant. This is why when we see bigotry, sexism, racism, hypocrisy, or exploitation...
...means that both sides subsequently conducted unrestricted warfare against civilian populations, making no distinction between them and military forces. If there is a difference between Nanking and the fire-bombing of cities like London, Dresden, Hamburg and Tokyo, it is that in Nanking the depredations took place on the ground, face to face - while air raids, of course, are conducted from a distance, with the bombers unable to witness the death agonies of their anonymous victims...