Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular vote 4.9 million to 4.5 million. Even in California, estimates of the untabulated raw votes by candidate had Mondale running close. California, like New Jersey, has a process in which delegates are elected directly by districts. Even a slight edge in popularity is usually enough to sweep a district, since voters tend to pick a candidate's full slate of delegates...
...blue-haired woman with a new skillet came in, insulted the whittlers, told them to sweep up their mess, took a seat and looked for all the world like she was waiting on the end of time...
...last thing they do is sweep the wood shavings separate from the clumps of clipped hair. They take the cedar home to their farmhouse and use it to start a sweet-scented fire...
Traditionally, Egyptian elections have had one outcome: a sweep for the government party. For President Hosni Mubarak, there was something particularly sweet about victory last week...
...Senator Alan Cranston, on the theory that nearly all the state's well-known Democratic politicians would run as delegates pledged to him. After Cranston dropped out of the race, most of the pols with recognizable names switched to Mondale. The system offers a chance for a big sweep: the most popular candidate in each district could have all of his delegates there elected. Both camps concede three predominantly black districts in Los Angeles and one in Oakland to Jackson, who also hopes to give Mondale a fight in three heavily Hispanic districts...