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...Committee stripped the state of all its delegates when it leapfrogged ahead of Feb. 5 without permission from the Democratic National Committee. But all the Democratic contenders will be on the ballot in Florida, and the Clinton campaign is counting on both winning the state and picking up some momentum from the "victory" over Obama...
...that trying too hard to influence political affairs on the raucously democratic island only backfires. The Kuomintang (KMT), which favors closer ties with China, won 81 of Legislative Yuan's 113 seats, soundly defeating Chen's independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which took 27. The win also gives momentum to KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou over DPP rival Frank Hsieh in the March 22 vote. Chen Shui-bian called it the worst setback in the history of the DPP, and took responsibility by resigning as the party's chairman...
...seems like the month-long losing streak could actually be a blessing in disguise for Harvard. After two twenty-point wins, the Crimson has generated serious momentum heading into the Ivy League slate...
...that the Golden Knights and Harvard are in a three-way tie for first in the ECAC, along with Princeton, even more is at stake, as the Crimson tries to recover its early-season momentum...
...momentum has swung to McCain. Campaign insiders found their phones ringing merrily on Wednesday morning as donors hustled to hop on the latest bandwagon. "We're ready to schedule as many fund raisers in one week as we've had in the rest of the year put together," said Ryan Ballard, a national co-chair of McCain's money team. "I haven't had enough time to answer all the calls I'm getting - from Romney people, mostly, but even from Giuliani people looking over their shoulders and hedging their bets...