Word: trailing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Elitism and Communism have been hot topics on the campaign trail recently because of Barack Obama’s infamous “bitter” comments. William Kristol ’73, a sometimes Harvard lecturer and a new addition to the Times’ opinion page, made the connection explicit in a column titled, “The Mask Slips.” With McCarthyite overtones everywhere, Kristol compares Obama to Marx, quotes a little German, and makes sure to reference San Francisco. The message, though cloaked in academic language, is clear: the real Obama is a German...
Clinton and McCain agree: Obama's remarks at a San Francisco fund raiser about "bitter" Americans who "cling" to their guns and Bibles have carved new vulnerabilities into his once hard-to-target persona. His reticent manner and trail of supercilious comments have convinced Clinton that her Democratic rival can't win a general election and have inspired 1,001 potential Republican campaign commercials...
...Colorado hegemony. His policies remain vague, and his critics warn that he would simply be a Paraguayan version of radical leftists like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales. But Lugo's running mate is a free-market liberal, Federico Franco, a Morales critic. On the campaign trail, Lugo has criticized Chavez for polarizing Venezuelan society and urges greater political openness in Cuba. Though his rhetoric often echoes the leftist cant of Latin America's liberation theology, he insists his agenda is social, not ideological. "I come from an ecclesiastical formation," Lugo said recently. "There is an option...
...early round of polls taken after Obama made his comments showed virtually no movement in the Pennsylvania race: Obama continued to trail Clinton but remained within striking distance. And some of the working-class Democrats in that state said they understood what Obama was trying to say, even if the professional political class didn't. "I think them remarks is the absolute truth," said Bill Williams, 60, a bearded disabled veteran from Waynesburg who attended an Obama town-hall meeting near Pittsburgh. "We like our faith and our guns. I went to church when things were bad, and I went...
...lights in Providence, the Crimson solved its faceoff issues, winning 14-of-19 and outshot Brown, 38-18, yet still skidded to its sixth consecutive loss. Five of Harvard’s defeats have come at the hands of nationally ranked teams.Never out of striking distance, Harvard did not trail by more than two goals, and the majority of the game was spent dead even. The Crimson took the lead briefly twice but, in the end, the Bears remained unbeaten in Ivy play and improved to 9-2 overall, extending their win streak to eight games.“This...