Word: picked
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...also showed a series of clips of ecstatic contestants who have tried to pick him up after winning prizes on the show...
...thing you mustn't do is pick a president to solve the problems of the immediate past," Bok says, specifying that he is speaking only of problems that affect the academic community generally. Instead, Harvard should seek a president willing to face new issues and concerns of the future...
...there is something. Bush, who has already once in this race found coasting to be a fruitless endeavor, is trying it again after a cluster of potentially self-fulfilling polls - Americans love to pick a winner - showed him emerging from the debate season with a just-bigger-than-margin-of-error-sized lead. A little daylight. Ever since, Bush has been grinning, and the lead has been shrinking...
...those who have forgotten their high school civics, the Electoral College was a compromise between those Founding Fathers who wanted direct election of the President and those who wanted Congress to pick the President. Today's voters in each state (and the District of Columbia) don't actually vote for President but choose a slate of electors who then pick the President. This year the 538 electors--the same number as there are representatives from the 50 states (plus three for D.C.) in the House and Senate--will gather in state capitals on Dec. 18 to cast their ballots...
...state delegations, and they will probably keep this slim advantage. But would House members feel obliged to follow the wishes of their states, their districts or their parties, all of which could be in conflict? Or would they support whoever won the popular vote? Meanwhile, the Senate would pick the Veep. Senators would vote individually. But after the election, which party will control that chamber...