Word: stretched
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...flip side, many activists complain McCain was soft on Obama’s connections to Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. But a recent New York Times/CBS poll found that voters who rejected McCain in the final stretch cited his persistent attacks on Obama’s character as one of their main reasons for doing so. While Obama’s associations were fair game, they ultimately seemed irrelevant, and McCain’s harping on them revealed a lack of innovative ideas on more important issues...
...some level, the Obama campaign sympathizes. They are promulgating a video urging supporters not to be complacent. The clip shows a cyclist in first place near the finish line. He raises his hands to celebrate as he enters the home stretch, loses his balance, and falls off his bike. Another cyclist cruises past him. In case you didn’t get the point, the campaign even places a photoshopped McCain head on the guy who ends up winning...
...other two teams tied atop the Ancient Eight standings, in the Crimson’s final contest Saturday at home. Princeton is the other squad with a shot at the title. Harvard is unbeaten in its last seven and has outscored opponents 18-5 in that stretch. Since 1999, the Crimson and Cornell are the only two teams not to win a league title. The players on the Crimson have also never had an Ivy League game of this magnitude. “I think that we’re all just really excited to be in this position...
...though he was decades away from a campaign in which both sides have accused the other of lies and misrepresentations, the media attention also gave him a taste of how the media whirlpool can stretch facts...
...here for pictures of Barack Obama's home stretch...