Word: neck
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...Dingman asked incredulously. Hammonds posed questions to students as she furrowed her eyebrows at the screen and crossed her arms, deep in concentration. “Okay guys, is it going to be an early night or a late night?” she asked. Dingman craned his neck forward at the screen as he tried to attach a patriotic pin to his jacket lapel. “For the rest of your life, you’ll remember where you were, what happened,” Dingman said. “No matter what, this is just an historic...
Obama looks to be in a statistical dead heat with McCain in the district (just as the Democratic challenger in the 25th, Joe Garcia, is neck-and-neck with the Cuban-American GOP incumbent, Mario Diaz-Balart). The key is how many Cuban-Americans Obama can poach from the GOP; and Obama volunteer Jose Realin thinks he can deliver them. Realin, 38, a bail bondsman and a lifelong registered Republican now on the Democrat's side, was heading out of the Obama campaign office in the 25th on Monday evening to knock on doors in Cuban neighborhoods. "They worry that...
...handing out chocolate chip cookies. Determined to make the long lines more bearable for Missouri voters, the Obama team was also provisioned with coffee, magazines, camp chairs, children's books and trail mix. They said that a licensed massage therapist was planning to tour the urban precincts, giving free neck massages to voters grown weary and stiff while waiting...
...guess is there will be a certain number of conservatives who rally around Palin as the next bright hope. There will be others who say, look, what's killing us is we've got this stand on abortion that's an albatross around our neck. They will look for some champion, somebody of the Jim Leach school of Republican thought...
...This kind of neck-and-neck finish would put a tremendous strain on any state's electoral infrastructure (see Ohio in 2004). So the question looming like Spanish moss in Tallahassee is, Has Florida girded itself adequately since 2000 to keep whatever cracks haven't been fixed - especially in trouble spots like Palm Beach - from turning a tight race into a real mess...