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...SINGLEHANDED CHAMPIONSHIPWatson spent a three-day weekend up at Cornell, competing in the ICSA Women’s Singlehanded Championship. In her second trip to nationals, Watson came home with 12th place in the 18-sailor field.“I started out the regatta with good races, and then as I got more tired my size became a factor,” Watson said. “The majority of the girls at the regatta were larger than me.“When it’s windy, I’m at a disadvantage sizewise...
...That pretty much sums up the entire race with just a week remaining: McCain is having to spend what little money and time he has left to defend the ground he thought he had locked up months ago. In Prince William County, about 30 miles south of Washington, he told a crowd of around 10,000 that electing Barack Obama would bring a new wave of socialism to the U.S. "America didn't become the greatest nation on earth by giving our money to the government to 'spread the wealth around,'" he said outside the county government headquarters in Woodbridge...
...McCain seemed tired, as if he had been up too many late nights, and at times his answers meandered through a series of only tangentially connected sentences. But his central argument - that the race is not over, that he might still pull this thing out - is not completely unreasonable. It is not just that McCain has stared long odds in the face before and triumphed, as he did when his campaign collapsed in the summer of 2007, financially broke and in disarray. Back then, trusted friends advised him to withdraw rather than suffer a humiliating defeat. Even some...
...realized he wasn't going to win against President Bill Clinton in 1996, Dole started campaigning in states that were of little help to him but where he could assist Republicans trying to hold on to their majorities in Congress. That kind of pivot hasn't happened in this race, though over the weekend conservative writer David Frum openly called on McCain to do just that for the good of the party. Scott Reed, who ran Dole's '96 campaign, says he believes McCain could still pull off a victory. "I think Schmidt's strategy has brought [McCain] back...
...hand, roughly triple what Olson has left. A poll released this week by Zogby International gave the clear advantage to Olson by a whopping 17 point margin, but Lampson's campaign has taken issue with the geographic sampling in the poll and claims their own internal polls show the race to be a dead heat. And indeed while most national pundits say Lampson is facing an uphill battle, some observers closer to home say he shouldn't be counted out so fast...