Word: superably
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Barrett, on the other hand, is no worse for wear. After crisscrossing the < South to report on the Super Tuesday races in both parties, Barrett wrote this week's main story on the Republicans. His energy and longevity leave campaign newcomers slack-jawed. When recalling Barry Goldwater's 1964 nomination drive for a young television interviewer last month, Barrett saw that the man was startled: "He looked at me as if I were a survivor of the Spanish-American...
Thanks to the Super Tuesday mechanism created by Dixie Democrats, Bush won more delegates (574) and conquered more real estate (16 states) than any other Republican contender ever had on a single day. That gave Bush just over 700 delegates, vs. 165 for Dole; only 1,139 are needed for an absolute majority. Bush thus has a stronger grip on the nomination than Reagan did at this stage in 1980. "This is something historic," said Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater. "There will never be another regional primary with this sort of conclusive impact." Bush began to sound credible Tuesday...
...visibly saddened by the G.O.P. election returns. Then he brightened and observed, "The Democratic Party may be better off with this result." However, such doubts about Bush's ability to defend the Reagan palace, either in November or in the White House, were invisible among Republican voters on Super Tuesday...
...make matters worse, the latest electoral invention, the concatenation of primaries and caucuses known as Super Tuesday, loomed as a fulfillment of the Law of Unintended Consequences. Rather than give the South a major role in selecting nominees who reflected the region's more conservative leanings, it threatened to sow further confusion by enhancing candidates with no chance of being elected. For the Democrats, ironically, Super Tuesday looked in advance as though it might give lifts to the very Northern and liberal candidates the South had been hoping to diminish...
...Deborah was super-bright," Rogers says, "so bright she wouldn't concentrate." Rogers says she spent weeks trying to establish trust and communication with the eighth-grader. "The hardest thing for me is dealing with someone very different than I am," Rogers says. "You have to know exactly how to work with each person...