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...Boston College off the board.The Eagles, who never really had a breakout inning, built their lead slowly throughout the game. They tallied a run in each of the first three innings and then padded their lead in the seventh. The final two runs turned out to be the winning margin. “They came out aggressive, they came out swinging,” Allard said of Boston College. “We weren’t real sharp on the mound today. I think them jumping on pitchers early definitely helped them take some momentum early...
...degree. Once the Democratic stalwarts whose sense of economic self-interest sustained Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal coalition, working-class whites were the patriotic, the churchgoers--and, yes, many of them were hunters--who began to drift from the Democratic Party in the turbulent 1960s and later became the margin of victory for Ronald Reagan. They have never fully returned to the Democratic fold and as a result have become less and less of a factor in its primary politics. Among those who remain with the Democrats, the core of this group tends to be older and female, the demographic...
...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] STATE (ELECTORAL VOTES) WHITE WORKING-CLASS VOTERS STATEWIDE WINNER (MARGIN OF VICTORY) Wisconsin (10) 64% Kerry (0.4%) Iowa (7) 70% Bush (0.9%) New Mexico (5) 34% Bush (1.1%) New Hampshire (4) 60% Kerry (1.4%) Pennsylvania (21) 56% Kerry (2.3%) Ohio (20) 60% Bush (2.5%) Nevada (5) 56% Bush (2.6%) Michigan (17) 59% Kerry (3.4%) Minnesota (10) 58% Kerry (3.5%) Oregon (7) 64% Kerry...
...sophomore attacker Thomas Muldoon tacked on an insurance tally during a man-up opportunity with 2:14 remaining.In a last ditch effort, with eleven seconds on the clock, Gibbons scored an unassisted goal, his fourth score of the day and the tenth of his college career, to slim the margin to one. Time ran out before the Crimson got a chance to knot the score again.“It’s tough,” Gibbons said. “We came close. A couple of things didn’t go our way—just...
...Unlike his immediate predecessor, Berlusconi can be expected to lead a coalition of solid majorities in both houses of Parliament. Prodi, who beat Berlusconi twice, in 1996 and 2006, spent these last two years in power with a razor-thin margin in the Senate, where his governing coalition finally imploded in January after a failed confidence vote. Veltroni, leader of the newly formed Democratic party, made a point of not aligning with more extreme parties on the left. He is expected to head the opposition, and will try to consolidate power across the center-left spectrum and winnow away more...