Word: margin
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Duke, who is currently a state representative, lost to former Gov. Edwin Edwards in a run-off election by a margin of 60 percent to 40 percent, despite charges of corruption which have plagued Edwards...
...Hobey Baker winner's shot with under seven minutes left gave the national team its narrowest margin of victory over a college team this year...
That's what has Republicans so flustered about the results of the election. Had Wofford been more of a moderate, or more of a politician, or had won by a smaller margin, there wouldn't be much fuss. But Wofford won big as a liberal and as a new-comer. People rejected the grand Republican machinery. People rejected Bush. With the economy still floundering, and critics becoming very vocal about Bush's neglect of domestic issues, this is not good time for Bush to have to deal with defeat...
Maher said that he worked harder during this campaign than in the 1989 election, which he lost by a margin of only 11 votes behind Rafferty...
...mostly what was discovered in the wreckage of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings was the charred skeletons of some American myths. When the 52-to-48 vote was over Tuesday night, confirming Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court Justice by the lowest margin of this century, some Americans had to give up a few illusions about fair play and about the complicated dynamics of racial and sexual solidarity. They learned that a woman who comes forward in good faith to make an accusation can become the accused, that skin color matters more to blacks than ideology, and that gender matters...