Word: support
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Gore's widespread support among the national Democratic Party apparatus and the vice president's union endorsements have not made Bradley's task any easier...
...Republican side, Patterson predicted that McCain will benefit from the support of independents, as he did in New Hampshire and Michigan...
McCain might receive more votes overall, but Bush will probably win all of the state's 162 delegates. Whatever independent and Democratic support McCain receives, only Republican voters' ballots will count in the race for the GOP's delegates...
...part of a package that includes the Golan Heights, Hezbollah would prefer a unilateral withdrawal that would allow them to proclaim themselves the first army ever to have liberated Arab territory from Israeli control," says MacLeod. "But despite a potential conflict with Syria, Hezbollah's enjoying a surge of support throughout the Arab world - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdallah recently rushed to Beirut to meet with the movement's leaders, suggesting there's strong grassroots support for the guerrillas throughout the Middle East...
...Monday highlighted the fact that it's not retreating with its tail between its legs, and will extract fearsome retribution for any attacks across its northern border. But such attacks may be unlikely even without Syria leaning on the guerrillas, since Hezbollah would lose much of its Lebanese public support if it attacks the Israelis after they've withdrawn. And the realization that peace in Lebanon may be possible without it may yet spur Damascus back to the negotiating table with Israel...