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...back to 52˘, as traders snapped up bargains. The tumult led to speculation that someone might have been manipulating the market to plant doubts about Bush. But John Murray, a futures trader in New York City and one of Intrade's 43,000 members, says political biases don't sway serious traders. Neither do national polls. Instead, Murray does the math. Using research, he estimates the chance that each candidate will win each state. He tweaks his map daily. "I have Bush at around 285 electoral votes," he says. Kerry fans may want to consider buying Bush futures. Come...
...stat that could sway voters in Dawson’s direction is scoring offense. You’ve all heard that the tailback broke the Harvard single-season touchdown records, held by Chris Menick ’00, in Saturday’s win over the Tigers. What you may not have heard is that Dawson’s 15 touchdowns are the most in I-AA, even surpassing the totals of players who have two extra games under their belts...
...rather than seeking to sway the minds of pro-Kerry voters, canvassers this weekend bypassed the homes of registered Democrats, focusing instead on the Grand Old Party’s faithful base...
...abortion, same-sex marriage and stem-cell research--and aim them at a population whose membership in the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian churches exceeds 90%. That's the strategy deployed this season by Focus on the Family, the conservative group run by James Dobson, to try to sway the Hispanic vote for George Bush. Its "Vote por Sus Valores," or "Vote Your Values," radio and television spots began running on Spanish-language media around the country last week--along with a cascade of commercials from the Kerry and Bush campaigns, the two parties and outside interest groups...
...director (Harris Yulin, as a veiled John Huston) has to spout some of Miller's windiest metaphors, but his gruff philosophizing is dead serious. The only real figures of ridicule are the pompous husband-and-wife acting coaches (modeled on Lee and Paula Strasberg) who hold Kitty in their sway. But even those caricatures (entertainingly acted by Stephen Lang and Linda Lavin) seem to grow out of Miller's genuine animosity, not plucked from a shelf of prefab Hollywood clich?...