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...rosy scenarios for Perry's challenger. "It is going to be uphill for White to win," says Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. "Texas is the largest red state in the country. It tends to vote Republican by an 8-, 9-, 10-point margin." That is in a normal year, Jillson says, not one in which the political mood is downright rebellious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has a Democrat Got a Chance of Becoming Governor of Texas? | 3/17/2010 | See Source »

...recent Texas elections. In 2002, Perry handily beat millionaire South Texas businessman Tony Sanchez in the governor's race, 58% to 40%, even after Sanchez spent $75 million, much of it his own money, in the campaign. A Democratic Hispanic candidate for lieutenant governor lost by roughly the same margin in 2006. (See pictures of Loving County, Texas, one of the nation's richest areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has a Democrat Got a Chance of Becoming Governor of Texas? | 3/17/2010 | See Source »

Bracket makers take note: this past Tuesday the University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team won their 72nd straight game, beating West Virginia by a whopping 28 points. The lopsided outcome was nothing new for this team, which has averaged a 32.5-point margin of victory during their record-setting streak. Although these juggernauts have clearly displayed their dominance in this particular season, the question remains: Are they the greatest ever? Some talking heads profess that they will be if they win the national championship at the end of this season, others doubt whether this...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: After Virtue and Basketball | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

...strong February gave Harvard the momentum to soundly defeat Princeton in the playoffs, knocking it off in two games by a combined margin of seven goals...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Frozen Four Berth at Stake Against Rival | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

...district's current lawmaker, freshman Democrat Tom Perriello, had squeaked into office by 727 votes in 2008 - the narrowest margin nationwide - and so the crowd sensed opportunity. They began arriving an hour in advance, donning T-shirts touting their chosen candidates, unfurling banners and stacking campaign literature on plastic tables. Grandparents hobnobbed and hoisted signs; teens twirled "Don't Tread on Me" flags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Too Many Tea Partyers Spoil the Revolution? | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

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