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...single vote, each party has an immense interest in the outcome of the New Jersey contest. Unwilling to concede the race, the Democrats have attempted to substitute former Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg for Torricelli on the ballot—a move that outraged Republicans, who challenged the tactic in court. But in this case the New Jersey Supreme Court was right to decide, unanimously, that the voters have a compelling interest in a competitive election...
...this phenomenon first-hand on a campaign I worked with a few years ago. The winning candidate recognized that voter turnout would be very low since it was a special election and focused his campaign efforts on area churches and their congregations. The tactic was effective because the people he appealed to were very responsive to the religious issues raised in the campaign. The church members became his “base voters” and he won the election by a strong margin...
Harvard had a difficult time solving the drop-style defense that Princeton played. The ‘drop’ is a double-teaming tactic in which a defending player lags off of his assignment to help cover another, stronger player...
...television cameras to promise that the U.S. would invade Iraq whether or not U.N. inspections were allowed to resume. Even as Iraq agreed on Tuesday to the unconditional readmission of weapons inspectors, the Bush administration has already attempted to sabotage the effort, calling it “a tactic that will fail” and announcing that the U.S. “is not in the business of negotiating with Saddam Hussein”—as if there were anything left to negotiate. The White House has made it clear that Iraq will not be rewarded with peace...
...against Saddam Hussein’s murderous regime. It should be noted, however, that he has decided to play a shell game by offering the return of weapons inspectors while conveniently ignoring substantive demands (such as disarmament and the repatriation of prisoners of war). Every indication suggests that this tactic will accomplish the purpose for which Saddam deployed it: to split the UN Security Council and prevent decisive action against the Iraqi regime. The French and the Russians, stained by Iraqi oil, have taken the bait and declared that a new resolution against Saddam is unnecessary. Germany will follow. Tony...