Word: strongest
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...Barack Obama will not leave voters feeling they have to choose between the lesser of two evils. These match-ups provide Americans with clear choices on the war in Iraq, health care, cures for the economy and judicial appointments.On the Republican side, the nominating process produced McCain, the strongest general election candidate in the field of GOP contenders, according to the polls.On the Democratic side, the spirited battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is generating record turnouts of new Democratic voters, with huge increases especially in the female, African-American, and young adult demographics. Those new registrants will prove...
...Clinton team also notes that the superdelegates were established in the 1980s, in the wake of successive electoral debacles, to assure that the party nominated its strongest general-election contender. If Clinton performs well in such upcoming primaries as West Virginia and Kentucky, her team argues, that will increase doubts about Obama's durability in the fall (though it has been 12 years since both states voted for a Democrat in a general election). They also hope Clinton will finish close enough to Obama to bring into the calculation the still disqualified votes of Florida and Michigan - two states that...
...than a decade earlier. By the late '90s, mobile-phone penetration levels in Norway were more than double those in France and Germany, according to telecom consultancy Analysys. In light of deregulation, Telenor's savvy for nurturing a customer base from the early stages to maturity looked like its strongest export...
With a near telepathic understanding on court and an irresistible combination of power and flair, the duo has established itself as one of the strongest partnerships in the country—at one point, climbing to No. 14 in the national rankings...
...drums fill the void in Vale’s life in a way that his painful piano lessons never could. We discover later that Vale only took up the piano in hopes of connecting to his dead wife, a classical pianist.The scenes of Vale playing the drums are the strongest in the movie. Tarek introduces him to the music of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, invites him to jazz clubs, and brings him to play with a group of drummers in Central Park. In these scenes, Vale’s reserved, curmudgeonly self gives way, slowly, to a more expressive man.Soon...