Word: traction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Missouri's demographics and its election rules make it particularly tough to handicap a close race here. Because the state mirrors America, every conceivable issue might gain traction - Missouri has nervous factory workers and ethanol-happy farmers; it has failing school districts and wealthy boomers irritated by the estate tax; it has huge corporations alongside angry populists. No one agenda has captured the race...
Mitt Romney: Can his retooled message, focusing on his Mr. Fix-it record and his business credentials, gain traction? The other candidates will be limping into Florida with little money; Romney's wealth gives him the capability to write himself a check for tens of millions. And having won the little-contested Nevada caucuses on the same day as the South Carolina primary, Romney comes to Florida with bragging rights for having won the most votes and the most delegates to date...
...other X factor: Fred Thompson, the onetime darling of Southern conservatives, with an endorsement from National Right to Life, who has mounted an aggressive bus tour to save his foundering campaign. If he gets traction, he could erode Huckabee's support among the pro-life base of the party...
What do you think would happen if those social issues started to become more of a factor? Do you think it would change the debate? Would it get uglier or less ugly? I don't know, but I could draw you a scenario where Rudy Giuliani also has traction among that other spectrum in the party. There is a pro-choice element within the Republican party. There is a New York kind...
...really good to know there were a lot of teachers in the room,” said Anna van Someren, Media Producer at MIT’s New Media Literacies project. “I like to make sure we’re actually creating stuff that can get traction in the classroom...