Word: spoiler
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...give Abbas more freedom of action - and also not to alienate Olmert or the Bush Administration, which refuse dealings with Hamas. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is in the middle: while in no hurry to reward Hamas for its Gaza takeover, he nonetheless believes that Hamas will eventually be a spoiler if kept out of power altogether...
...also hard to imagine that Bloomberg will run if he doesn't think he can win; he wouldn't want to be remembered as the Ralph Nader of 2008, the long-shot candidate who acted as a spoiler to help tip an election. He's been a popular and effective Mayor, and he's got the money to finance a dozen campaigns, but independent campaigns tend to fail - partly because getting on the ballot in all 50 states is an excruciating process no matter how rich the candidate is. He'd probably need to win an outright majority to keep...
...pretty far left, except for Iraq - and I don't know where he is on that." A Quinnipiac poll puts him a distant third in a three-way race against Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani in New York. "I know he won't want to be a spoiler," says former Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat who has endorsed Clinton in her primary - but has reserved the right to endorse Bloomberg in a general election...
...Theories abound as to Sanjaya's staying power on the show, from suggestions of a flood of offshore voting to the texting power of pre-pubescent girls. There is one theory that can actually be quantified by Internet data: shock-jock Howard Stern's campaigning for show-spoiler site Vote for the Worst, started in 2004 "to support voting for the entertaining contestants who the producers would hate to see win on American Idol," according to site creator Dave Della Terza, who teaches a course in reality television at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn...
...Minutes from tip, Lavietes is packed, as the Crimson looks to play spoiler to the Quakers first place chances...