Word: standings
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...third or tenth of the price. So there was a clear artificial bubble in terms of sales that got dissipated over the subsequent years. I don't see that same phenomenon in this crisis particularly. The servers that were at Bank A, which is no longer a stand-alone bank, are still running all the transactions, it's just that they now belong to Bank...
Montana: McCain's Late Stand, 10:30 a.m. E.T. Montana has only three electoral votes and has gone GOP in almost every presidential race for the past four decades. (LBJ won it in 1964; but Bill Clinton took it in 1992 only because Ross Perot chomped into what would have been the Republican vote for George H. W. Bush.) In 2008, however, the Obama campaign organized early for the Democratic primary there and has maintained its presence. Indeed, it has been running local TV spots continuously since June. While Barack Obama and his wife Michelle made several trips...
...exit pollsters are also getting better training to help them avoid oversampling Democrats. Here is how an exit poll is supposed to work: pollsters stand outside more than 1,000 precincts around the country, all of which have been scientifically chosen to represent a particular area. As voters leave their polling places, the interviewer tries to randomly select about 100 of them to fill out a questionnaire...
...some places, pollsters are allowed to stand closer to polling places than they were before, which may also help improve the response rate. And the questionnaire is a little shorter, so more voters may be willing to participate...
...negative legacy that she was looking to repair, of course, was that of her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, who had chivalrously stepped aside for his wife to stand for office. Still, Fernández was known for her independent streak and as a political heavyweight in her own right, with a record as a combative senator that convinced many she would not be manipulated by her husband...