Word: support
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Even among veterans, Bush prevailed, winning by 51 to 43 percent. McCain had banked upon support by veterans and never failed to remind voters that he was a prisoner of war for five and a half years in Vietnam...
...crimes of the past present a difficult challenge to academics, politicians and society at large. Recently several prominent Harvard faculty, including Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., have declared their support for providing monetary reparations to the descendants of American slaves. Although the desire to come to terms with mistakes of the past is commendable, monetary reparations for slavery would be fundamentally unsound, with insurmountable problems of implementation as well as deep moral and philosophical flaws...
Anjaria remembers the outpouring of support when a vendor was wrongly arrested...
...McCain garnered most of his support from Republicans...
...voting record contradicts the support he has received from liberals and moderates. In 1998, the American Conservative Union said McCain voted along their ideological lines 68 percent of the time...