Word: usual
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...midterm elections should have been a wake-up call for Republicans. Conservatives showed up in the usual numbers to vote for the GOP. But some Republican-leaning independents switched sides, and the Democrats got 57% of all independents. If Republicans don't win some of them back, the GOP is headed for a long spell in the minority...
...It’s business as usual,” Flygh added. “There shouldn’t be much of a difference...
What kind of success in Iraq do you expect to happen by the time we get to the general election? Well, I think a gradual progression in reducing casualties. More and more government control. More success against al-Qaeda. Slow, but receptable progress in the government functioning -... the usual indications and benchmarks of a successful counter-insurgency...
...need to dry-clean your tuxes, George and Denzel. Thanks to the Hollywood writers' strike, Sunday's Golden Globe Awards has shrunk from the usual celebrity bacchanal of red carpet, dinner, ceremony and after-parties to a one-hour news conference broadcast on NBC. The highly-rated Globes is the first awards show to fall victim to the strike, and February's Academy Awards may be next...
...McCain tried to lock one up one of those undecided McBamas at the town hall in Exeter. In responding to the voter asking about Iraq, McCain didn't stray from his usual answers on the topics of bin Laden and Iraq. He will "follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell." As for Iraq being hell-on-earth...America will stay there, he said, for as long as it takes, even if - as he put it later - "that's one hundred years, one thousand years, ten thousand years or until the earth collapses under global climate change...