Word: pocketable
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Monday, Obama, who holds a slight lead over McCain in Florida in most polls, hit Jacksonville, a key pocket of the state's more conservative north. At the same time, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, at the end of the politically fluid I-4 Corridor, McCain held a rally that didn't bode well for his comeback bid for Florida's 27 electoral votes. Bush drew 15,000 people at that site during the 2004 campaign; earlier this month, Obama drew 8,000. For McCain, just over 1,000 showed up. - By Tim Padgett / Miami
...carrying a heavy metal folding chair, which had helped him through his two-hour wait to vote at St. James United Methodist Church, one of the city's largest "Freedom Ward" polling places. He wore a kufi of African mudcloth design and a watch chain dangled from his trouser pocket. He had a hike of a mile and a half still ahead of him. "People walk further than that to vote in other countries - Americans are too soft," said Harry E. Brown. On the other hand, "the only reason I'd walk this far," he added, was for Barack Obama...
...what's the left's top docu-comic agitator been up to this election season? He's not as intense a focus of inspiration and rage as he was four years ago, but he's still busy. He's published a pocket-size paperback, Mike's Election Guide 2008, which details how the Democrats can win the election (and how they could blow it). He released a movie record of his 2004 tour, Slacker Uprising, free on the Internet, becoming the first major filmmaker to do so. He's got a website, MichaelMoore.com, a cross between the Huffington Post...
...eliminate the state income tax. We hope that they respond with a resounding “no.” The state income tax accounts for 40 percent of Massachusetts’s revenue. If it is discarded, the billion dollars of budget cuts so far will look like pocket change compared to the $12.5 billion that the state will be forced to eliminate to make up for the tax. Needless to say, the effects of such a purge would be disastrous—firing every single state employee would still leave Massachusetts $7.2 billion in the red. Innovative programs...
...Pizzotti taking a ton of time in the pocket, finally passes to Cheng, who gets absolutely drilled. He's getting looked at by the trainers...