Word: runner
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...marked the first time the Iowa front runner had singled out Huckabee for an attack. And that can mean only one thing: Romney is starting to worry about the former Arkansas Governor, whose sunny, underfinanced, overperforming presidential quest is generating buzz. "You never put the crosshairs on a dead carcass," Huckabee tells me. "Somebody sees me as a real wall mount, and that's a good thing." Antitax groups and conservative columnists have also begun criticizing Huckabee, mostly for the tax hikes he oversaw in Little Rock...
...almost axiomatic in some circles - mostly notably the Romney campaign - that Giuliani cannot survive all the scrutiny that will come with being perceived, rightly or wrongly, as the G.O.P. front-runner. But that remains to be seen, and given a choice, most candidates would certainly prefer scrutiny to obscurity. Most of the other Republicans, after all, went unmentioned in Philadelphia, save for Sen. Barack Obama's sly (but no doubt rehearsed) aside at the end of the night that he might don a Mitt Romney mask for Halloween. "It has," he said, "two sides...
...Iowa and New Hampshire voters to make last-minute decisions, wasn't remotely true. Even his consultants got into the act, requesting an interview with the New York Times, in which Obama announced - pathetically - that he was going to be more specific in his criticisms of the front-runner...
...Freshman Dan Chenoweth finished shortly behind in 16th place with a time of 25:15.8, just shy of an All-Ivy distinction but the top finish by a freshman on the men’s side of the meet. “He emerged as our second runner at arguably the biggest meet of the year,” coach Jason Saretsky said. “I was sort of hoping/pulling/expecting him to be there and he really came through in a big way.” From that point, however, experience carried the day for the Harvard men. Senior...
Hairless breeds never win the Westminster Dog Show. And they no longer win the dog-and-pony show that is a presidential election, no matter what surveys say about Giuliani as the Republican front runner. Forget the Roper polls. I trust the barber poles...