Word: upset
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...opinion columnist on the elections, however, I might be placed into the “pundit” category, and I certainly wouldn’t want to upset the apple cart. So, allow me to opine for a moment...
...After she won the N.H. primary, pundits were quick to point to her emotional moment as the reason for the upset victory. Maureen Dowd’s column the morning after the primary was titled, “Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House?” It was said that middle-aged and older women, who formed 57 percent of the voters in the Democratic primary—and who voted for her 46 percent to 34 percent over Obama—were touched by the moment and upset about the extra scrutiny Hillary...
McCain is still recovering from the July implosion of his campaign, which resulted in pink slips for most of his South Carolina staff. Voters, already upset by his support of an immigration-reform bill in Congress, gave up on him. But Trey Walker, McCain's state campaign manager, remains optimistic. "The McCain resurgence is palpable," he says, adding that the campaign is now at about three-quarters of its pre-July strength...
McCain is also still recovering from the July implosion of his campaign, which resulted in pink slips for most of his staff in the state. Voters, already upset by McCain's support of an immigration reform bill in Congress, gave up on him. "They thought that the campaign was over," says Trey Walker, McCain's campaign manager in the state. But Walker remains optimistic. "The McCain resurgence is palpable," he said, adding that the campaign was now at about three-quarters its pre-July stength...
...Americans can’t afford to shop anywhere else. In too many places today, there are no good jobs and no signs of change; in too many places the American Dream is starting to look more like a mirage. Understandably, this situation makes a man like Senator Edwards upset...