Word: wouldn
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...when then Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott suggested that if separatist candidate Strom Thurmond had been elected President in the 1948 election, "we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years," we turned to prominent members of the black community to determine how far he had overstepped...
...group that probably ultimately wouldn't want it to go on too long is the Democratic Party itself. Can you envision a point at which - if the race stays this close - and with the difficulties that everyone has analyzed in accumulating enough delegates to get any distance ahead where party elders would step in and say "Senators Clinton and Obama, this is now hurting the party and whoever will be the nominee in the fall. We need to figure this out." No I really can't. I think people have short memories. Primary contests used to last a lot longer...
...dirty, get tough,'" said one, who echoed them too. But Obama pushed back, more willing to fight his advisers than to fight his opponents. A heated showdown in Chicago, attended by a core group of only half a dozen or so, took place over Labor Day weekend. "But he wouldn't do it," says one of the attendees. "Against all punditry, against the advice, against the history ... It shows he understood his persona and the qualities that were implicit in it." And he understood what he stood to lose if he changed his game. "If I gotta kneecap...
...name wasn't even on the ballot (40% of the vote there, in fact, went to "uncommitted.") Many voters who might have gone to the polls say they didn't. For that reason, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and its embattled head, Howard Dean, keep stressing that it wouldn't be fair now to suddenly change the rules that were agreed to a year ago. (The Clinton camp, however, insists it simply agreed not to campaign in the two states, not to have their delegates thrown...
...Colombia, still embroiled in a four-decade-old civil war over its deep social inequalities, argues that it wouldn't have had to violate Ecuador's border if Correa, like Chavez, hadn't been harboring FARC militants in his territory. The FARC "is a drug cartel that kills civilians," Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos said in a TIME interview last month. "It's like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hizballah - where are we supposed to draw the line for our security...