Word: punching
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...race. If Obama isn't losing, he's winning, and McCain has few chances left to change the game. McCain gamely defends Sarah Palin, but her standing among Republicans and independents has dropped, and her widely watched TV interviews have reduced her to Dan Quayle status as a punch line for late-night comics. As conservatives correctly note, Joe Biden's latest gaffes have been largely ignored; but Palin demands closer evaluation than Biden, who has been in the arena for 36 years. Fueled by stronger polling numbers, Obama has won back his most important advantage: he now has more...
...middle of an economic crisis, such attacks may not pack their normal punch. In the TIME/CNN/Opinion Research poll, Obama led among independents, 55% to 42%, and had improved on John Kerry's 2004 showing among such key voting blocs as white men, white women and voters over 65. As for the voters of Arapahoe, the number that the Obama campaign might want to seal in amber is 21. That's the advantage Obama currently holds over McCain (59% to 38%) among voters making less than $50,000 a year. In 2004 lower-wage voters in Colorado split their votes evenly...
...conditions—wasn’t. There was a 100 percent chance of rain in Philadelphia on Saturday, but the worst the Crimson faced was a light drizzle in the second half. There were times when Mann struggled to corral a ball or two, being forced to punch out others, but for the most part, the team was able to play at a normal pace. “The conditions were surprising, it just drizzled in the second half,” Leone said. “We were able to play fine.” Harvard continues...
...trash level is just right. And One Fifth Avenue has other virtues that are harder to explain. It has an actual Weltanschauung--it gets at the deep truth of shallow people. Women control men with sex. Men control women with money. With rare exceptions, marriage is a Punch-and-Judy slugfest that ends with either divorce or one party's total subjugation. Power and pleasure are the only things that are real, and they endlessly swap places as means and end. Everybody in One Fifth Avenue, good and bad, is bound by these rules, and the only difference is that...
...purported drawback is also true. Girl Talk’s “studio” albums (though the term “studio” implies the presence of session musicians, which play no part in auteur Gregg Gillis’s process) pack the same infectiously danceable punch that his performances do. His online-distributed June album, “Feed the Animals,” is no exception. Within the context of Girl Talk’s mashups, no songs or artists are out of bounds. On “In Step,” Nirvana?...