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...turnout at rallies is any measure, Obama has been outdoing Clinton, often by a margin of three to one. The contrast was evident in early April in Missoula, where 8,500 people cheered an Obama rally at the University of Montana. The next day, Clinton outlined her case to 1,500 people at a fund raiser in an airport hangar. Obama drew 7,000 on May 19 at Montana State University in Bozeman. As in other places, many of his fans are young, noisy and eager to help...
...independent poll in April gave Clinton a 50-37 advantage, and McClintock says he thinks the margin has expanded. As a New York Senator, Clinton already represents many of the 4 million Puerto Ricans who live on the mainland; her husband was always popular on the island, and even commuted the sentences of 16 members of a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group when she ran for Senate. Puerto Ricans pay more attention to local politics than national politics, but they certainly know Hillary Clinton; by contrast, Obama has been running biographical radio ads on the island this week. "We have...
...second varsity won their morning heat by a one second margin over Boston University and a two-second gap against Princeton, and could not manage the same feat in the grand final, despite being seeded 3rd. Ultimately, the boat placed fourth 18 seconds back of Brown. Dartmouth and Yale took second and third...
...Crimson briefly captured a two-seat lead over the Bulldogs in the closing meters of the race, but Yale stormed back to steal second with a 0.6-second margin over Harvard...
...sugar coating this one - the Republican Party got beat, and it got beat soundly. In any other year, Mississippi's 1st Congressional district would not have been a question. President Bush won the northeast corner of the state with two-thirds of the vote in 2004, the same margin that elected the last Republican congressman there in 2006. But Tuesday night, in a special election to replace the Representative who had moved on to take over Trent Lott's Senate seat, the results came in ugly. Travis Childers, a pro-life Democrat who supports gun rights, swept the district with...