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...many months before the election, these numbers are not very meaningful. But they point to a key goal of the McCain campaign: upset the traditional partisan divide with a new generation of McCain-o-Crats. This is a defensive strategy as much as an offensive one, given the nine-point advantage that Democrats have in party identification nationwide. (According to another recent Pew poll, only 36 percent of registered voters identify themselves as Democrats and 27 percent as Republicans, the lowest G.O.P. number in at least 16 years.) Campaign staff say they see hope in Obama's recent trouble shoring...
...last earned their first goal. Yet they were unable to keep up the pressure. The Bears sealed the deal in the final periods of the match, netting four goals in the third and three goals in the fourth. Though the Crimson added another goal late in the game, the nine-point deficit was simply too much to overcome. Harvard turned the ball over 14 times and threw away eight 6-on-5 opportunities. Four of these ejections were drawn by junior Devon MacLaughlin, who also scored one of the Crimson’s two goals. Harvard co-captain Vivian Liao...
...were guarding defensively,” Amaker said.Then reality set in. After trading buckets over the next few minutes, Harvard led 27-16 with 6:52 to play in the half. From there, the Bulldogs used a 23-3 run and 15 first-half Crimson turnovers to take a nine-point lead into the locker room. Harvard would never get closer.“I thought the same thing that happened to us in New Haven [on Feb. 8] happened again here,” Amaker said. “We turned it over out in the middle...
...point lead with 6:52 to play in the first quickly mutated into a nine-point deficit at halftime. The Crimson’s shooting, which kept the baskets singing in the first half (50 percent from three-point range) calmed to a dull roar in the second (23 percent from downtown...
...scored seven points during a 14-4 Columbia run over four minutes in the second half that erased a nine-point Crimson lead. After pulling down a rebound on the defensive glass, Baumann ran the length of the floor and buried a three from the top of the key to give Columbia a 47-46 lead with 11:41 to go—its first in over 13 minutes...