Word: support
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...long haul, this race will actually spill across all 24 states holding their contests between now and March 14. The whole landscape is wobbling. Though the exit polls from Michigan suggested, and Bush insisted, that McCain won only because of mischievous Democrats crossing over temporarily, McCain's support in that bellwether state may have actually been broader than has been reported. And though Bush remains powerful in the South, McCain is 20 points up in New England. So the big swing states, like New York, California and Ohio, that tend to decide matters in the general election...
...threats. "I guess I'm a troublemaker," Ganji laughs in a TIME interview. Suddenly turning somber, he adds, "I call it playing with death. One day something might happen to me. This fight for reform is lawful, but it has its price." In addition to the outpouring of public support, Ganji is encouraged by the steady flow of leaks he receives about death squads: he declines to identify his sources but likens them to the insiders who fed Woodward and Bernstein...
...painful result of online chatting is the phenomenon of closeted gays and lesbians, who feel trapped by their marriage to straight spouses, freely exploring their sexuality in cyberspace. Much as "Carl" lost his wife to an online boyfriend, many of the spouses in the Straight Spouse Network (an international support network of heterosexual spouses and partners and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender mates) share stories at ssnetwk.org of losing husbands to online boyfriends or wives to online girlfriends. It happens more often than many people imagine. KURT A. BODLING Tuckahoe...
Indeed. Some were even taking home campaign posters. But of the 70 women there, only a handful intended to vote for McCain. Upon hearing this, I committed a faux pas by suggesting McCain was in trouble if he couldn't draw more support in such a working-class Republican community. "Don't insult us," snapped Manon Crow, a Bush supporter. "Brea isn't working class." So much for the Bush spirit of reaching out to hoi polloi...
...Republicans are moderate, but N.Y. politics is machine politics, and it's Bush's machine. The party almost kept McCain off the ballot. But ever since Bush's Southern right turn, McCain's support has grown. Recent polls have the two in a dead heat. Voters cast ballots for delegates rather than the candidates themselves...