You have to accept that certain states are just un-winnable and quietly move resources and staff out of them to states that are close and winnable.
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I knew it was winnable for only a small few.
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This election is winnable, and it's all to play for.
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And the Republican nominees mounting winnable campaigns against Independent Sen.
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Pennsylvania and New Hampshire were winnable but no sure thing.
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She lost two exceedingly winnable presidential campaigns in Hindenburgian fashion.
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They have largely avoided nominating weak candidates in winnable districts.
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None of those matchups are a cinch, but all are winnable.
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It was a winnable game, but you can't give them gifts.
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Mr. Kelly said Arizona had become a "winnable state" for Mrs.
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If I think a seat isn't winnable, I'll do the same.
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"This isn't a war that's winnable by air," Baker told me.
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Thank you Gorka authored "Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War" in 2016.
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The race is seen as winnable after the current incumbent, Rep.
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There is a winnable approach for Democrats in the impeachment trial.
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It is still a very winnable region for Democrats in 2020.
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Nir looked at two winnable Republican seats in southern New Jersey, where
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So far, Momentum has struggled to place its candidates in winnable seats.
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"We need to see more women candidates in winnable seats," she said.
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Mr. Brain comforted a father whose son had lost some winnable games.
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"They've really been dealt an un-winnable hand here," Sandweg told Hill.
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"It's going to be tough — but it is still winnable," another said.
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Reid's district had no primary, for one thing, and seemed acutely winnable.
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I don't advise a client to defend a case unless it's winnable.
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"We need to make sure they're preselected for winnable seats," she added.
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They do not want to blow the opportunity of a winnable contest.
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"This is not a winnable battle at this time," one councillor explained.
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The Lakers have another winnable game Sunday against the visiting Atlanta Hawks.
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Some deals — like the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — will be winnable.
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She will likely be blamed for failing to triumph in easily winnable races.
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This is a winnable election for Democrats, but it's also a losable one.
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My mission was to answer one simple question: Is the game still winnable?
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If McDaniel beats out Hyde-Smith, this seat becomes very winnable for Democrats.
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Prosecutors often disagree about the strength of evidence and whether cases are winnable.
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But the groundswell of moderate support could expand his map of winnable territory.
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The winnable fight portrays a man who doesn't give a rip about people.
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He is doing everything possible to make this a winnable race for us.
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To make matters worse, Afghanistan is generally regarded as an un-winnable quagmire.
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Bannon's chosen candidates in Wisconsin, Indiana, and now Alabama have all lost winnable races.
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In swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, they are winnable votes for Trump now.
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Siver is a winnable fight for Penn no matter the stage of his career.
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Andy Barr for a central Kentucky seat that Democrats believe is winnable in November.
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Getting a candidate into all three of those winnable districts is important for Democrats.
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It would require a nuclear program large enough to make such a war winnable.
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And many of the Lib Dems' most winnable seats are Tory ones (see chart).
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"This was a very winnable game, and we let it get away," George said.
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Pacification rooted in conventional warfare made the war in Vietnam seem simple, and winnable.
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" QUOTE OF THE DAY "This was a winnable race for the right Republican candidate.
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A bad candidate can blow a winnable election — which I thought Trump would do.
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But too much can lead a party to throw away a winnable election like this.
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Trump has not been shy in saying that he believes trade wars can be winnable.
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The local accent proves you are not "carpet-bagging", or swanning into a winnable seat.
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But all of a sudden, in 20203, the state is beginning to look eminently winnable.
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That suggests it is winnable, but probably by a moderate, not an outsider-style progressive.
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It was winnable because, once again, Republican demands pushed beyond the bounds of public sentiment.
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If Jones wins, it means Moore blew a winnable race for a safe Republican seat.
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The Democrats desperately need an authoritative autopsy of 2016: a winnable election with disastrous results.
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It was too late, and Heck lost what was considered to be a winnable seat.
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But many of those seats—even in deep red districts—are starting to look winnable.
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For Dean, enthusiasm to make policy change met the opportunity of a winnable congressional seat.
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The candidates are running for three seats that are considered winnable for Republicans in 2018.
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Thus the effective battleground is for a sliver of white voters: independents and winnable evangelicals.
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In Texas, several congressional districts that Democrats view as winnable in November held primary runoffs.
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These factors keep Trump perennially within striking distance; it's a very winnable election for him.
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"It was a winnable game, and we didn't win it," Blues Coach Craig Berube said.
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Strident Democrats could drive these Republicans home and squander seats that would be otherwise winnable.
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I am talking about the next ring or two of potentially winnable races for Democrats.
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The big spending doesn't just signal that each party sees the Senate seat as winnable.
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The G.O.P. has nominated cranks and erstwhile witches and Todd Akin in winnable Senate races.
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Iowa's demographics made it a winnable state and a missed opportunity for Mr. Sanders, he said.
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What fights are winnable, which sectors can be bargained with, and which can be written off?
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Even Vietnam, he thought, should have been winnable, if those idiot civilian commanders had bombed enough.
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Bagley says it's definitely a winnable argument for the administration, if it makes its case well.
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He would lose a race that should be winnable for Democrats in the increasingly blue commonwealth.
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If those voters then stay home in the general election, the party could lose winnable races.
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They had lost winnable races for governor and Senate two years ago in nail-biter recounts.
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Not only was the war necessary, I argued, but it was winnable with better strategic decisions.
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Steve Bullock of Montana and former Representative Beto O'Rourke of Texas into potentially winnable Senate races.
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This was something the Occupy movement failed to do; it never tried to win anything winnable.
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Yes, a majority of Trump voters are probably unattainable for Democrats, but millions may be winnable.
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Its home games are against Costa Rica and Panama, neither a gimme, but both very winnable.
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"It has all the trappings of a winnable seat if the climate cooperates," Mr. Sittenfeld said.
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It could be a winnable case, given evolving attitudes about a person's right to health care.
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Critics of Trump will hold that the GOP blew a perfectly winnable election by nominating him.
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This would be an eminently winnable presidential election if the Republican Party nominated a generic boring candidate.
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And donors—seeing one of his candidates lose a winnable seat—may begin taking their money elsewhere.
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Moreover, other states once viewed as long-shots are tough but winnable, like Missouri and North Carolina.
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Indonesia has been deemed a winnable market, and it is already one of Line's top four countries.
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It's also worth mentioning that Krazy Horse will be returning to Japan for a very winnable fight.
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Heller is up for reelection in 2018, and Democrats believe his seat could be winnable for them.
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The end result has been a team that is rapidly losing ground an utterly winnable AL Central.
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Do Democrats get shut-out in a winnable House race thanks to California's top-two primary system?
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"This was a winnable race for the right Republican candidate," David Plouffe said Thursday, according to Politico.
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Remind yourself what you are capable of, and make a winnable game of the challenges you face.
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Despite polls showing Hillary Clinton with a comfortable lead, Mr. Trump's forces insist the state is winnable.
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But many national Republicans believe a winnable seat will be at risk if Blankenship wins the nomination.
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Ryan, of course, has since dropped out of contention, and the district is really only borderline winnable.
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Democrats continue to overlook how winnable these votes are, while Republicans exert little effort to secure them.
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" Sebastian Gorka, Ph.D., is the author of the New York Times bestseller, "Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War.
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The presidential contest was waged almost entirely in the 14 states that both parties regarded as winnable.
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They see a winnable election against a vulnerable incumbent potentially squandered by a candidate with radical views.
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They see a winnable election against a vulnerable incumbent potentially squandered by a candidate with radical views.
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The Guccifer 2.0 documents show similar stories in two other Ohio districts the DCCC believed were winnable.
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But there was a reason Democrats thought this seat could be winnable, and that reason was Donald Trump.
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The ads worked, however, and Kerry responded too late -- contributing to his loss in a very winnable race.
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We&aposve got a lot of winnable games coming up, and we just need to believe in it.
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But Maine's sprawling, rural 22012nd Congressional District is by far its most conservative territory, likely winnable for Trump.
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With those battlegrounds less winnable, Senate hopes have caused an influx of money into the Show Me State.
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He threw away a very winnable game against the underwhelming Baltimore Ravens when he threw three ugly picks.
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Steve Knight (R) and a fellow Republican advanced in what could have been a winnable seat for Democrats.
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Clinton noted in the video that there are "dozens" of "winnable, competitive" swing districts in the upcoming election.
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Fighting Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court is an uphill battle that many believe is not winnable.
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Last year, there were reasons to believe that AL-2, the seat Isner is running for, was winnable.
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Those, right there, were the three races Democrats needed to win, and they were starting to look winnable.
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The district was about 40 percent African-American, and entirely winnable, but it had been ignored for years.
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And I was so excited to see that somebody at the DCCC thought that our community was winnable.
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The Trump campaign, for instance, only occasionally applied it to winnable things, like wars or the election itself.
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In Atlanta, Anthony got thrown out of a winnable game by overreacting to physical play around the basket.
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They have lost 13 games this season by five points or less and this was another winnable one.
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"How many folks are responsible for her losing the most winnable campaign in history?" a Democratic strategist said.
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" Olivia Wilde "This is a winnable fight, but we need everyone to work together to make it happen.
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Generals, politicians, and think tanks such as the RAND Corporation were discussing the possibility of a winnable nuclear war.
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They're suffering retirements at record rates — putting very winnable House seats like Speaker Paul Ryan's at far greater risk.
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His retirement changes the calculation of the race, but how winnable do you think this district is for Democrats?
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"This is desperation mode for us, and that was a winnable hockey game," Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said.
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The numbers came back indicating that the race was winnable, according to one person who is close to him.
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In several notable examples, candidates who aligned themselves with the progressive wing of the party lost clearly winnable races.
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And in Texas, several congressional districts that Democrats view as winnable in November held primary runoffs as well. 3.
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And with millions of dollars from outside groups expected to pour in, both parties see the race as winnable.
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Losing feels shitty, especially losing a series that seemed winnable, and Darvish played a big part in that loss.
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Barr, Sessions's replacement, ultimately sided with those who said that the case wasn't winnable and should not be prosecuted.
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The Catamounts have a chance for a winnable double-digit seed with a win but UMBC probably does not.
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A conflict like that might ultimately be more winnable, some believe, and therefore shorter than the current open-ended engagements.
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This was a winnable election for the Republican Party, and a number of Republican candidates looked ready to win it.
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But it's a winnable fight for those businesses, thanks in part to their armies of lawyers and billions in revenue.
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But those same strategists also suggested that the tax return issue could help Democrats secure House seats in winnable districts.
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He also listed a number of states he and Mr. Weld saw as winnable, including Utah, Alaska and the Dakotas.
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"With a well-run campaign, it's a very winnable race," said Ethan Zorfas, a general consultant for the Fitzherbert campaign.
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Mackowiak, like many Republicans, believes the 2020 election is winnable for Trump — but that victory requires a well-defined message.
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But down only 46 seats in the House, the DCCC has targeted 59 GOP-held districts it believes are winnable.
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And on Monday, Democrats failed to flip a winnable Minnesota statehouse seat, largely because of mediocre turnout from their base.
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He won a game, I read the story, he won a game that was un-winnable against a great team.
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He won a game, I read the story, he won a game that was un-winnable against a great team.
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Democrats must focus down-ballot where the problems are more acute (for instance, failing to run candidates in winnable elections).
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This created a Pakistan problem for India: Its chief adversary had made low-level nuclear war thinkable, even potentially winnable.
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"The majority of resources will go toward the winnable races before the Massachusetts Senate race is even considered," Williams said.
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Instead, we appear to be seeing a remarkable example of a major political party blowing a totally winnable national election.
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This seems like a potentially winnable concession, as does Canada's desire to add a gender rights chapter to the treaty.
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Indiana once looked like a potentially winnable state for Cruz — but he didn't even come close, losing by about 16 points.
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"The stakes are too high for us to leave winnable races on the table," Will said in a statement to Reuters.
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His greatest consistency lay in urging wars abroad, wherever winnable, and for him both Afghanistan and Iraq fell under that head.
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Even if it looks like an easily winnable case against the next Lehman Brothers or AIG, Chuck shouldn't try nailing them.
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President Donald Trump has insisted trade wars are winnable and pushed his officials to increase the scope of the target list.
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Charles Schumer who had previously resisted spending DSCC money in Florida to instead focus on more winnable — and less expensive -- states.
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"The next election is winnable for the coalition provided we sharpen up the policy difference with Labor," Abbott told 2GB radio.
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National Democrats spent roughly $50 million to protect Nelson's seat -- money that could've easily gone to winnable races in other states.
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"They added: "For them, it all depends on these northern Leave voters — but there just aren't that many [winnable] northern seats.
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Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that he thinks Arizona is "certainly" winnable for the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020.
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But Republicans worry if the wrong GOP candidate advances to the general, they'll lose what they think are otherwise winnable seats.
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He wasn't rewarded with a Calder Trophy last year, but he was rewarded with a winnable first-round matchup this year.
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Rank-and-file Democrats are, reasonably, disappointed with a loss in what seemed to be a winnable special election in Georgia.
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Every fan believes his or her team has a lot more winnable games on the schedule than other people might think.
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"The only way that we anticipate that it is winnable for Clemson is if it is a complete shootout," Blume said.
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But the study should force campaigns to seriously reexamine how they're spending money, and how they try to persuade winnable voters.
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As an organized group of mothers—often neglected by politicians—they are seen more as winnable voters than hardline party loyalists.
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"This is not a winnable battle at this time," Lisa Herbold, a member of the City Council, said before the vote.
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Or would it have been enough to push them through to the second round and a very winnable series with Ottawa?
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These states, which are seen as winnable by either a Republican or Democrat, receive an inordinate amount of attention by presidential candidates.
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Well, I thought the district was winnable even when Paul Ryan was still in office, when we still thought he was running.
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Add it all up — history, Trump, a primary fight — and Gillespie has a difficult, but still winnable, path to the governor's mansion.
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We will be prepared to take on the Republicans in the general election and ensure Democratic victories in winnable districts this Fall.
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Hillary Clinton's team now views the traditionally Republican states of Georgia and Arizona as winnable because of Donald J. Trump's embattled candidacy.
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Three outside Republican groups have spent over $900,000 on the race in order to boost Lesko and avoid losing a winnable seat.
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Eerily, on my last visit, North Koreans repeatedly said that a nuclear war with the U.S. was not only survivable but winnable.
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Things fell apart for the Jets in the second half, with penalties and sloppy plays giving away a winnable game to Carolina.
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If Trump had lost in 2016, he — and the political style he represents — would have been discredited for blowing a winnable election.
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The optimistic president who once thought Afghanistan was winnable had, through bitter experience, become the commander in chief of a forever war.
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The Democrats, however, have been less involved in the debate over immigration and represent more winnable Democratic votes for the White House.
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Were the Thunder to stay in sixth place, they would most likely play the Rockets in the first round, a winnable matchup.
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Four of the Panthers' six remaining games seem winnable: home against the Chargers and Falcons, and away to the Redskins and Buccaneers.
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But, only because he knows it will be a fight that, in his opinion, is as winnable as it is big-money.
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The alternative is, simply, for these leading Republicans to tell the truth — that Trump blew a completely winnable election for the party.
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He's a bad candidate who is losing a very winnable election and possibly dragging many other Republican elected officials down with him.
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"Whoever is our nominee needs to campaign in places like South Carolina," said Booker, who also suggested Iowa was winnable for Democrats.
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These Democrats are torqued off by what they saw as an out-of-state hired gun making excuses for losing a winnable race.
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And they continue to argue that key senators — like Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who has also been critical of the plan — remain winnable.
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That's what made Turner's case unique -- and ultimately winnable, she said: the two passersby who interrupted the assault, providing crucial testimony against him.
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Stacey Abrams, or presidential scion Jason Carter, had not so strongly resisted overtures from party leadership to run a race seen as winnable.
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If you have a race that's just not winnable and you have limited resources, you can't spend just to make somebody feel better.
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If you have a shorter distance to travel to get to your 50-plus-one, that's a less expensive and more winnable race.
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The Knicks have a string of winnable games against the Chicago Bulls, Dallas Mavericks, Charlotte Hornets, and Cleveland Cavaliers over the coming week.
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That leaves a home game against the Bears as the only clearly winnable one before Detroit's season finale, at home against the Packers.
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" Days later, Biden writes, "a couple of people on President Obama's political team were telling us this race just wasn't winnable for me.
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I don't think, whether it's right or wrong, it's not a winnable argument and you can see the ads from the Republicans now.
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These are both winnable matchups; this team has the ability to stay in any game because of how they work to bleed clock.
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It will focus on competitive districts seen both as winnable by Democratic leaders and open to a pro-environmental message by the group.
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The Jets (26.5-3) have the disadvantage of a rookie quarterback going up against a decent defense, but this is a winnable game.
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The answer was no: We know that PA-18 was not winnable in a year with Hillary at the top of the ticket.
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But it's also possible that these districts are just not going to be winnable for Democrats, at least not in the foreseeable future.
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Everyone would be talking about how Donald Trump badly underperformed the structural fundamentals of the race, and cost the GOP a winnable election.
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Do you think we are in a trade war with them, and do you think if you think we are, is it winnable?
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They cited figures like Delaware's Christine O'Donnell and Missouri's Todd Akin, who lost winnable Senate races in the 2010 and 2012 cycles, respectively.
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Throwing much of the party's money at these wealthier districts where Clinton did well makes some sense, given that they appear more winnable.
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His generation, which won medals at the Olympics and world championships, instilled confidence that games were winnable regardless of opponent, circumstance or score.
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And by remarkable coincidence, Hillary Clinton won precisely 17 red Virginia statehouse districts in 2016, giving liberals reason to believe they are winnable.
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Though Poirier was able to secure a takedown to protect his injured leg, the fight was suddenly looking much more winnable for Miller.
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Better, the thinking goes, to temper expectations, count overperforming in Kansas as a win, and look ahead to the relatively winnable race in Georgia.
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Kasich provided strong pro-life leadership to finally engage a winnable battle with the federal judiciary while saving countless babies at the same time.
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Then they have winnable games against the Panthers and the Bears before playing what could be a win-and-in game against the Giants.
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And on Tuesday night, Democrats came up short in the single-most winnable special election of 2017: The suburban Atlanta 6th District of Georgia.
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And, given that the national party and its aligned super PACs spent millions on the race, they clearly believed it was a winnable proposition.
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The more certain her candidacy appears, the more that mature voices in the GOP have to do to ensure they have a winnable ticket.
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Factor in the fact the Assunção has not fought in almost two years, and this looks like an even more winnable fight for Dillashaw.
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If Cronkite was wrong, if the war was in fact being won and winnable, there were ample resources, time and commitment to prove it.
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Regardless of Kerr's anger, the dunk got the Raptors to 323-313 with 303:213 remaining, with this game seeming very winnable for Toronto.
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Denver can improve its position with an extremely winnable road game against the 27ers (25-210), a team that has been devastated by injuries.
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Herrera, who was not speaking on behalf of Kelly's campaign, said Latinos are winnable with a moderate message about health care, education and pragmatism.
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Conservative outside groups have also ramped up spending on anti-impeachment ad campaigns, hammering Democrats on their votes in districts they see as winnable.
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But I seriously doubt that progressive ideas have enough appeal in the South and Rust Belt states to make your ideas a winnable solution.
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It would also change India's likely targets, in the event of a war, to make a nuclear exchange more winnable and, therefore, more thinkable.
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Before the primaries, the race in Nebraska's 85033nd district was considered to be one of the few winnable districts for Democrats in the state.
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Johnson told The Times his campaign is considering national ads after Labor Day and sees Utah, Alaska, North and South Dakota as winnable states.
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Sessions said he is convinced the war on drugs is "winnable" and noted that federal law enforcement will also continue going after illicit drug dealers.
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Christie, then heading the Republican Governors Association and in charge of directing resources to winnable races, was one of the few who believed in Hogan.
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"If Democrats don't do a better job of putting them front and center, we will lose a very winnable election to Donald Trump," Cecil said.
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"It just seems that he's, at times, hell-bent on losing a very winnable election to a very seriously flawed candidate: Hillary Clinton," Dent said.
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Democrats on the committee may not be winnable votes for Shelton, but she will need to mind tough questions they aim to put to her.
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Although Brexit was a "huge, huge factor" in his election, he says long-term changes have made places like Mansfield more winnable for the Tories.
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"It's a search for someone to sacrifice himself ... If it was winnable, no one would come asking me," she told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.
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Democrats, on the other hand, see the Kansas special election as a launching pad for the more winnable seat in Georgia in seven days time.
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"You can make a mistake very early on that can prevent you from winning a hand that would have been winnable," Rumsfeld told the WSJ.
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The Marlins are wanting to see more of that, but the Mets — in a crucial game — see a Urena matchup as a very winnable game.
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But in the final days of the race, Morrisey turned up the heat on Blankenship, arguing that he'd cost Republicans a winnable seat in November.
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Clinton during the primaries, and how Mr. Trump was able to come one winnable election away from the seat of Lincoln and F.D.R. Both Mrs.
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The Republican Party doesn't want another Roy Moore situation — losing a winnable Senate seat due to a flawed candidate — on its hands in West Virginia.
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Stephen Curry's ankle and knee injuries seemed to introduce the possibility that a second round matchup with Golden State would be competitive, maybe even winnable.
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The game is never unfair, the odds winnable if you study them properly, but also ready to overwhelm you if you put a foot wrong.
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Other Senate races that were once thought to be close, and possibly winnable by Democrats, have seen a similar progression in the last few weeks.
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But in marginal districts, particularly places that have voted Republican for years (like Alabama, for instance), that will squander an otherwise winnable district or state.
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The Labour Party in the U.K., for example, has implemented gender parity for its parliamentary elections relatively well, by placing women in winnable parliamentary seats.
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In 85033, he wrote the New York Times bestseller "Defeating Jihad," which focused on what Gorka said was the winnable war against radical Islamic terror.
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Expanding that strategy involves going into local communities and pulling all those disengaged people up off their couches, offering them compatriots and winnable political fights.
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It astounds me that we learned so little from Vietnam that we have been waging war for almost two decades — wars that are not winnable.
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An AI playing a chess game will be motivated to take an opponent's piece and advance the board to a state that looks more winnable.
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" And he goes on ... "This is a 100% winnable vase (sic) since Dr. PHIL ran a stop sign and was in the wrong lane of traffic.
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In chess or Go, the payoff can usually be evaluated immediately by examining the board after the move, and checking if it's a more winnable board.
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Cruz is within striking distance in the Badger State, and if he's to deny Trump that mark, he can no longer afford to lose winnable states.
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"I think they feel it's winnable," a source familiar with America First's plans told BuzzFeed News when asked what changed between last week and this week.
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The Social Democrats, meanwhile, believe that Labour lost a winnable election by backing a candidate and a set of policies that stand far outside the mainstream.
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His greatest consistency lay in urging wars abroad, wherever winnable, including in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine and to "bomb, bomb, bomb" Iran, as he sang once.
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Today, when the real life climate and energy fights seem impossible to win, filmmakers and audiences are looking for fictional, winnable battles on the big screen.
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If not, what else was going on in 20183 -- and with the Democratic Party --- that caused it to lose what looked like an incredibly winnable race?
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But it is time for Congress to represent what the Americans who put them in office truly want: clear, defined and winnable strategies for our troops.
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The 2016 race was still a VERY winnable one for Clinton -- and one that most experts, polls and people expected her to win, and win easily.
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"There are probably a lot of people who just don't think that this race is winnable," said Steve Rodvold, a retired human resources officer from Fargo.
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Preaching to middle-class liberals will not be enough, since almost all those 64 most winnable constituencies contain a high concentration of Brexit-supporting C2 voters.
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The concern is that Kansas City has now lost winnable games at home to Tennessee and Indianapolis, with no key injuries to blame for either letdown.
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That draw — a winnable opening match followed by a showcase against one of the game's stars — was just the balance Rubin said he had long desired.
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And in the weeks that followed, with the election looking more winnable, former aides say Mr. Bloomberg approached the race with a sharpened sense of purpose.
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For years they've relied on high-profile candidates with previous statewide victories and built-in fundraising networks — only to watch many of them blow winnable races.
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Gap CEO Arthur Peck "expressed clear confidence in Old Navy's top-line trajectory and spoke to acceleration of underlying trends in "winnable" core Gap loyalty categories."
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Mr Phillips, the Tory candidate this year, has done his homework, but admits he is building experience, hopefully for a run at a more winnable seat.
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But she's made clear that she would be open to an appointment as vice president, and Georgia is looking more and more winnable for the Democrats.
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The Packers are still on life support for the playoffs, but this loss with winnable games against the Browns and the Bucs up next is crushing.
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Wolf, of Daily Kos, wasn't exaggerating when he said Democrats are putting forward "nobodies" in some otherwise winnable races: "Ambitious people are risk-averse," says Wolf.
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By building such a model, Flippable thinks it will empower its national network of progressives to donate time and money to the most winnable Virginia state races.
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Many Republicans reckon the outrage industry is a mortal threat to their party, landing them with an unelectable candidate for what should have been a winnable election.
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Following its withdrawal from China — via Didi Chuxing's ongoing acquisition of Uber China — Uber has turned its focus to more winnable markets like India and Southeast Asia.
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In December, Skovron did an analysis for the website The Outline of the 91 districts targeted by the DCCC in 2018 — which are considered moderate but winnable.
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"I hope you do because we need a winnable candidate," Madhure said, holding her clipboard and campaign literature as she stood on Lambright's doorstep making her pitch.
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If the people who bought unprecedented fundraising success to the Sanders campaign turn that passion and commitment to other, more winnable contests, they will score some wins.
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The district, located on Staten Island and an idiosyncratically conservative swathe of Brooklyn, has long been the only winnable House district for Republicans in New York City.
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Among Republicans and the more conventional pundits, this implies large numbers of disaffected losers staying home to pout on election day, costing the party otherwise winnable races.
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But the players also decided the arrangement was a calculated risk worth taking: Playing for one of the world's best teams, they view every game as winnable.
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But with a winnable road game next week against the San Francisco 49ers, they could try to keep winning in case Los Angeles or New Orleans falters.
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Not only did Republicans retain their majority in the Senate, they extended it, turning three seats red and holding off several challenges that Democrats thought were winnable.
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Such distasteful choices have locked American domestic politics in favor of a war that few see as winnable and a strategy that is widely seen as failed.
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I'll pick an early November loss to Detroit because it was a winnable game, and Irving had a triple double (133 points, 213 rebounds and 2112.6 assists).
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He remains convinced that a trade battle with China is winnable and is bolstered by polls showing his tariffs are popular among his base of Republican voters.
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The takeaway seems clear: In order to convince people to fight for our species, we might first need to convince them that the fight could be winnable.
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Some have criticized Ms. Klobuchar for what they see as her purposeful avoidance of divisive issues like immigration and her preference to tackle more narrow, winnable problems.
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The New York Knicks were all set to get their season back on track Monday night, with a very winnable game against the New Orleans Pelicans at MSG.
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"There's still a lot of folks out there who are really starting to get worried – worried that this fight against Donald Trump might not be winnable," she said.
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Against a hard-nosed Jazz team on Saturday night, Gasol, Conley and Courtney Lee missed multiple opportunities down the stretch, and Memphis lost a winnable game in overtime.
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The list of candidates for Italy's general election which he unveiled on January 27th showed that he had set aside around 80% of winnable seats for his followers.
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The Knicks also have a bunch of upcoming games that should be winnable if they play as they did in losing at the buzzer Friday night in Boston.
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Democrats would remember that Kerry lost what was seen as a very winnable race in 2004 -- and in so doing delivered a second term to George W. Bush.
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Wrong, the truth is that Bevin betrayed the very reason that people voted for Trump in the first place and that is why cratered an easily winnable election.
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Democrats fear their plethora of candidates may so divide their voters that they get shut out of several winnable races, while Republican candidates facing less divided fields advance.
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But Donovan earned a critical endorsement from Trump, who warned that backing Grimm could lead to another Alabama, where Republicans last year ceded a winnable race to Democrats.
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And to discredit Trumpism, they'll make the case that Trump is to blame for his defeat — that he blew what should have been a winnable election for Republicans.
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So how do we engage in a possibly — but not probably — winnable struggle within a rigged system against great odds, the ultimate results of which we'll never see?
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"In an extreme case, AI could undermine the condition of MAD and make nuclear war winnable, but it takes much less to undermine strategic stability," the report said.
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Mr. Bloomberg's organization in many ways mirrors the Senate and House majority PACs that raise and spend money to support individual candidates, focusing on close and winnable races.
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The national Democrats thought that was actually pretty good, and pointed to estimates that there are 114 other Republican-held seats that are more potentially winnable next year.
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The negative tenor of Mr. Trump's campaign clearly had a significant impact in states where Democratic Party leaders failed to recruit high-wattage candidates for some winnable seats.
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The June 26 primary between Ms. Balter and Ms. Perez Williams illustrates the national Democrats' sense of urgency in devoting attention and resources to races they deem winnable.
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He also reported royalties of $50,000 to $100,000 for his book "Defeating jihad: The Winnable War" — and also said that he signed a contract for a second book.
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Four straight wins and two winnable games remaining have Providence looking more and more like an NCAA Tournament team heading into Tuesday's Big East game against visiting DePaul.
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Williamson in her initial tweet was responding to a Huffington Post report revealing that Kupperman said in the 85033s that nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union was winnable.
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I'd much prefer a winnable health care fight that also leaves room for action on climate, taxes, civil rights and other issues to an all-consuming uphill battle.
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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and even President Trump himself were desperate to avoid a Blankenship nomination, fearing he would put an otherwise winnable seat out of reach.
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The Democratic leadership tends to divide candidates into centrists, who can win in marginal districts, and lefties, who are fine in safe seats but will lose otherwise winnable ones.
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Tories who abandoned the party for UKIP can now return—and Labour voters who went for UKIP, or voted Leave in the referendum, seem winnable, too (see chart 20003).
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"I think the first lesson is that heavy investment in races that are winnable pays dividends," said Abrams, who argues Democrats should spend more money in Georgia in general.
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Wade hijacked the end of two winnable games against the Philadelphia 228.0ers and New Orleans Pelicans, and, so far, has upset one of the league's better crunch-time offenses.
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The First is the more Democratic of the two—Cincinnati is liberal enough that even adding all of heavily Republican Warren County to it still makes the district winnable.
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Had they defeated Golden State in a winnable Game 3 and shot the ball as they had throughout the first three rounds, they could've gone the distance this series.
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Rutgers still has (relatively) winnable games left against Northwestern, Penn State, and Minnesota—but the Scarlet Knights' best player, Corey Sanders, is currently suspended for at least another week.
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A national Democratic strategist told Axios: "[Kansas's 4th district] is objectively un-winnable ... and yet [Cortez and Sanders] can get thousands of Democrats to turn out in an arena."
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This week they have a far more winnable game as they host the Panthers (6-6), who have dropped four straight after a 6-2 start to the year.
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The race to fill the final two years of Isakson's term might be a more winnable one for Democrats, depending on who runs on both sides for the seat.
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In a state that was once seen as mostly blue but often flipped control back and forth, Democrats view the Wisconsin Senate as one of their most winnable openings.
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Mr. Heinemann was critical of the line of argument that emerged after the war holding that the conflict had been winnable, and of airbrushed versions of warfare in general.
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Labour has well-established influence across Britain's cities and an experienced campaign machine that specializes in targeting winnable votes and making sure supporters cast their ballots on polling day.
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This is a campaign that's winnable, and if successful, it would be very hard to even imagine how fundamentally it would change the world, in science, tech, cinema, literature, medicine.
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In response to those challenges, the company last year re-focused its efforts on 'winnable' markets in Asia and better monetizing its existing userbase — which currently sits at 215 million.
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McConnell is committed to protecting the incumbents and fearful that Bannon's motley recruits are primed to lose winnable general election races, potentially costing Republicans a majority in the upper chamber.
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All available evidence suggests that Trump is a poor candidate waging a poor campaign and blowing a very winnable race against a Democratic Party nominee who is herself relatively weak.
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Some said Mr. Trump's threats toward Mexico, a close American ally, could send a message that trade wars are winnable and that the president will not back down against China.
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Clinton managed on her own to lose a winnable election, Mr. Putin is likely to get hammered with reinforced sanctions further targeting his circle of capos, state companies and cybercriminals.
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There is some dissension within the party about how winnable Florida is, but there is agreement that Missouri and North Carolina are cheaper and that Blunt and Burr are vulnerable.
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In 22020, female voters, outraged over G.O.P. attacks on Planned Parenthood and access to birth control, powered President Barack Obama to re-election and denied Republicans two winnable Senate seats.
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But the real blame will fall at the feet of the DCCC for failing to embrace Huerta, and giving him the resources he needed to win a very winnable seat.
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At the same time the coach was sending his point guard a message, he was also saving him for a more winnable game the next night at home against Chicago.
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But until we see Clinton regularly polling at 50 percent and higher, this is still a winnable election for Trump despite all the conventional wisdom that says he has no chance.
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So how did the GOP end up here in what was an entirely winnable presidential election, especially since parties controlling the White House rarely hold on for a third-straight term?
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Pluses for Milwaukee: Wisconsin was one of the vital heartland states that put Donald Trump over the top in 2016, and midterm results showed it's very winnable by Dems in 2020.
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The bottom line: "We are seeing our founding faith turn into validated fact: the battle against fraud is winnable," writes author Michael Tiffany, the co-founder and president of White Ops.
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"I would be surprised if we did," Holden told CNN, conceding that he may have "good ideas" but that activating their network would not make the race winnable for the ticket.
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A Republican with personal baggage who attacks Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a chance to win a Senate primary Tuesday and threaten the GOP's success in a winnable general election.
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He clearly wants to suggest that the war was winnable, and he believes that Lansdale's approach was the wiser one, but he is cautious in his analysis of what went wrong.
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Other than the seats that are already blue, "it's the only winnable election we have in Northern California, so to the extent other folks want to help, that's great," he said.
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"It raised a different kind of question to Americans than whether or not the war was winnable," said Christian G. Appy, a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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These people, including the ones who are supporting Trump, mostly feel that he is a weak candidate who is likely blowing what should be a very winnable race for the GOP.
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Sanders' campaign says Florida is more winnable than pundits think because the Vermont senator brings an enthusiastic base of grassroots supporters and an ability to bring out nontraditional and young voters.
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Police have conducted dozens of mass arrests at protests and rallies - often with scant evidence, critics say - leaving the task of building winnable cases to the Hong Kong Department of Justice.
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She called the South Florida district the "ultimate melting pot" -- and complained that Republicans had ignored potentially winnable voters there, many of whom are Latino but not Cuban, for too long.
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The firm's engineers are still working on that model, but if you ask Raser-Schramm, they already demonstrated their ability to organize a nationwide progressive network around a winnable state legislative election.
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The Huffington Post's Igor Bobic and Ryan Grim reported on Sunday that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has largely avoided the race, likely a sign that they don't view it as winnable.
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In an op-ed published Monday, the board criticizes the GOP nominee for failing to run a more disciplined campaign and says he is "losing a winnable race" to rival Hillary Clinton.
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This week brings games against the Atlanta Hawks (7-2) and the Golden State Warriors (8-2 and heating up), sandwiched around an eminently winnable date with the Miami Heat (2-7).
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But recently ousted White House strategic adviser Steve Bannon had argued for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces, saying that after 16 years, the war was still not winnable, U.S. officials said.
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" Gillum added, "What I am committed to doing between now and 2020 is doing everything I can to make the state of Florida available and winnable for the democratic nominee for president.
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But failing that, you might just want the Midwestern play, because again that's the only place where a major Hillary-leaning state would even be remotely winnable for a not-Trump candidate.
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"There are a lot of folks who are going to talk about what's not winnable, what can't be done and definitely about who can't do it," Ms. Warren told supporters in Manchester.
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Parties of all stripes have long parachuted high-flyers into winnable seats, none more so perhaps than New Labour, which sent the Miliband brothers of Primrose Hill to South Shields and Doncaster.
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Overall, we expect Bloomberg to invest in over 40 races nationally, to try to ensure that Democrats don't once again botch winnable elections, and to put the House firmly in Democratic hands.
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While the people interviewed hold a range of views about the war, the filmmakers avoid what-ifs or might-have-beens, and don't engage continuing debates over whether the war was winnable.
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This road game against the Buccaneers (4-8) is certainly winnable for Detroit, but it will be interesting to see how bad Matthew Stafford's hand looks after he injured it against Baltimore.
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That could affect its ability to get control of winnable boroughs like Barnet, which has the highest proportion of Jewish residents in England at 15.5 percent according to the latest census data.
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As a black woman running to be ... I picked the deep south, so it's convincing people Georgia is a winnable state, and then convincing people that a black woman can win Georgia.
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When Todd Akin lost a winnable Senate seat in 2012, after haplessly trying to draw a distinction between "legitimate rape" and the not so legitimate sort, Republican candidates and political consultants took notice.
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Democrats have begun to worry that a contentious and expensive primary in Georgia's governor's race could majorly disadvantage the eventual nominee — in a race that some believe is winnable amid President Trump's unpopularity.
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The danger for the party is that it could potentially be shut out of the general election in a few of these races, costing them an opportunity at flipping some very winnable seats.
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While Democrats believe this is a winnable race, they were divided over who would be the best nominee to take back the seat and get them closer to winning back the House majority.
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During the early decades of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union and United States gamed out a possible war in Europe, both considered a nuclear chain of events that could be winnable.
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Heye, the former RNC communications director, recalled the battles earlier this decade when nominees such as Nevada's Sharron Angle, Missouri's Todd Akin and Delaware's Christine O'Donnell all came up short in winnable contests.
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Why it matters: The plaintiffs have argued that African-Americans, who overwhelmingly vote Democratic, were packed into certain districts to dilute their political influence and make surrounding ones more winnable for Republican candidates.
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We'll be talking about why we're optimistic that the fight against poverty is winnable and why we think investing in young people is essential to the healthier, better future we're all working toward.
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MASS ARRESTS Police have conducted dozens of mass arrests at protests and rallies - often with scant evidence, critics say - leaving the task of building winnable cases to the Hong Kong Department of Justice.
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That's the argument McConnell and his allies are making as they seek to reelect GOP incumbents and squash the insurgent candidates they fear could win primaries but lose winnable general election races against Democrats.
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"This is a very winnable race," Lee told me as we approached Pulse, adding that what happened there — and its exposure of the hatred that L.G.B.T. Americans still confront — is part of the equation.
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Kleeb told me that she wanted to get a feel for the commitment of Ruppert's group "to see if there was a winnable campaign," but she also wanted a clear sense of everyone's motives.
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The Cavs called a timeout, but it is Steve Kerr and the Warriors who likely need to make some adjustments if they don't want to let a winnable game on the road slip away.
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"It is very important that we send a signal out of the gate that this is a winnable fight," said Brian Fallon, the head of a new Democratic judicial advocacy group called Demand Justice.
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And Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to the president, took in tens of thousands of dollars for his book "Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War," as well as his work for Fox News and Breitbart.
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That may play in Republican primaries and in states dominated by white voters, but it hurts in a more diverse state like Nevada, where intemperate comments from candidates have cost the GOP winnable seats.
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With the Green Bay Packers having won three consecutive games after a 4-6 start to the season, and having winnable games in each of the next two weeks, a season finale on Jan.
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Try as you might, you're not going to carve out many winnable districts for Republicans in New York City and the West Coast, and you're not going to elect many Democrats in rural America.
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The primaries will therefore be a blood bath; any newcomer would be lucky to earn a winnable spot on the party's ranked list among the returning incumbents, and many are battling for the chance.
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The allegations — including charges he pursued a relationship with and undressed a 14-year-old and sexually assaulted a 16-year-old — have upended what should've been an easily winnable race for the Republican.
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It's likely that CDC officials see climate change as "not an immediately winnable battle" under the new administration, according to Richard Jackson, a director of the CDC's Center for Environmental Health from 1994 to 2004.
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"I understand the frustration of the protesters, I just think that this fight is not winnable," said the senator, adding that she hopes to continue her work to improve living conditions for Native American communities.
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So while a shutout in June may take a winnable race off the board for either party, there are more than enough seats left for either to still have a real shot at the majority.
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"Alex played a key role in helping me win my supposedly un-winnable 2010 U.S. Senate campaign and has been a fixture in my organization ever since," Rubio said in a written statement to Politico.
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This is the most winnable and consequential fight yet of this presidency and every single person has to stand up and speak out for it, because that's the only way we're going to stop it.
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"I started looking at this race a year ago and thought it was winnable, mainly because I felt we have been underrepresented here in the Hudson Valley," Mr. O'Donnell, 67, said in a phone interview.
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Ms. Gabbard and Ms. Klobuchar — who also tends to focus on winnable, bipartisan issues like lowering the price of prescription drugs — appear to be the only two candidates to understand this opportunity for new votes.
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The steady stream of allegations against Moore — multiple women say he propositioned or assaulted them when they were teenagers — turned what was once an easily winnable race for the Republican into an unexpectedly tough fight.
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"This was actually a winnable defense case, but he didn't have the resources to fight it, and in the end I don't think he had the energy or the inclination to do it," the source explains.
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"The government has concluded that in a referendum-based democracy this 'foreign judges' solution - having the European Court of Justice mediate in disputes - is not winnable at the moment," Christian Democrats (CVP) leader Gerhard Pfister said.
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But because the failure to rally around a candidate before the fact can lead to the party being excluded from a winnable general election, if anything the top-two primary encourages more meddling from party elites.
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Lee played 24 minutes in large part because Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle chose to rest veteran stars Dirk Nowitzki and Deron Williams with a winnable back-to-back upcoming Sunday and Monday in Sacramento and Denver.
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Hispanic people now make up a quarter of the population in Florida, almost a third of the population in Arizona and 39% of Texas — all Trump states in 2016 that are becoming more winnable by Democrats.
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But it's difficult to find a candidate who is equally smart and charismatic, hence the duds the Democrats often elevate—and who have lost them two close, winnable president elections in recent memory (2000 and 2016).
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Actually, it's very plausible to argue that one of the reasons why Al Gore lost a very, very winnable election in 2000 was Clinton scandal fatigue, even though Gore wasn't a part of the Clinton scandals.
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National Democrats are spending big in key House districts ahead of next month's California primaries, a last-minute scramble aimed at ensuring the party isn't shut out of winnable races by the state's unique election laws.
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But even then, Kara Eastman, the Democratic House nominee in Nebraska's 2nd District, is hardly the kind of doomed ideologue that tea party Republicans watched fumble away eminently winnable Senate seats back in 2010 and 2012.
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Why it matters: A former CDC director said that, under Trump, climate change is probably "not an immediately winnable battle," so the agency is likely to let universities and other groups take the lead on research.
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President Trump's run of big, unorthodox bets — ranging from negotiating with a nuclear madman in North Korea to depending on friends who turned out to be "flippers" — is looking riskier and less winnable by the day.
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The Eagles could start to bounce back in the next three weeks before their bye: All three games look winnable, though none is a lock: at the Giants, the Panthers at home and at the Jaguars.
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But Hillary Clinton carried the district in the presidential race, as Barack Obama did in 2008 and 2012, so both parties see the House seat as winnable — and crucial to their control of the next Congress.
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Republicans' margin in the Senate has now slipped to just a two-seat advantage, and the Senate contests in Arizona, Nevada and Texas are all winnable if there is a robust turnout of voters of color.
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But being frozen out of races in winnable Republican-held districts would have been a major disappointment for Democrats and could have sapped some of the enthusiasm they will need to generate over the coming months.
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Democrats still feel that Florida is winnable but are coming to terms with their limited resources — and relying on Senate Majority PAC, the outside group aligned with Democratic leadership, to do much of the heavy lifting.
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Even with a 4-0 sweep of the winnable games, losing both of those would drop the Panthers right back to a 12 percent chance of a playoff berth, at least according to the Upshot model.
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An air of unreality surrounds all the planning and precautions for nuclear war, dating back to the "duck and cover" school drills of the Cold War, suggesting that a threat to all of humanity was somehow winnable.
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That combination of a winnable go-to market strategy in the short term and audacious long-term vision is partly what attracted Andreessen Horowitz's Jeff Jordan to lead the firm's investment in Sigma's $4.35 million seed round.
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The Spurs are able to get away with it because of the years of experience of their core and a demonstrable ability to win on the road in the playoffs that lets them risk losing winnable games.
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In fact, some of the party's elders, as the New York Times recently reported, remain flummoxed at the idea that Sanders or someone else outside the mainstream might steer them toward disaster in a winnable 2020 campaign.
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" He also authored the 2016 New York Times best-selling book "Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War," which argued US leaders should stop referring to Islamist terrorism as "violent extremism" and acknowledge what he outlines as "global jihad.
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While not taking any contest for granted, Luján said Trump's influence has made every close race a little more winnable, and he urged his Democratic colleagues to pitch in financially so the DCCC can expand its battleground.
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But Sestak and Schumer had a contentious history; Sestak had run an unorthodox campaign in 85033, one that Democrats believed cost him a winnable race, and he showed no interest or inclination toward heeding the DSCC's advice.
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Ohio Democrats did not get its first-choice candidates in three House races they believed were winnable, according to documents from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee leaked to The Hill by the hacker or hackers Guccifer 2.0.
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"The fight against Brett Kavanaugh is winnable but only if Senate Democrats quickly unite in opposition so we can focus on pressuring a Republican to break ranks," Brian Fallon, founder of Demand Justice, said in a statement.
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Democrats will need to do better in Florida and Ohio to take back the White House after losing both the Senate and governor's races in the Sunshine State and a winnable governor's race in the Buckeye State.
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While those projects go on, and while Washington policy wonks wonk out, winnable political battles are being outright surrendered — such as what happened in North Carolina, where voters, by and large, supported the actual provisions in HB2.
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Why it matters: The case centers on concerns that the map, drawn by Virginia's Republican-led legislature, had deliberately packed black voters together to limit their influence so surrounding districts could be more winnable for GOP lawmakers.
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" Christopher Ruddy, the chief executive of the Newsmax Web site, who sees the President regularly at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, told me, "The guy loves a fight and will see this one as easily winnable.
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"Denel is actively pursuing a winnable order pipeline of 30 billion rand in the next two years, which will greatly contribute to the financial turnaround and long-term sustainability of the company," Denel said in a statement.
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The Warriors are leading the game by two points, but Cleveland seemed to endure Golden State's largest blow without crumbling, and especially at home this seems like a winnable game for them with a decent fourth quarter.
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The Lions, on the other hand, have winnable matchups against the Cleveland Browns and Chicago Bears, so the teams could be even at 6-4 when they face off, which would put enormous pressure on the Vikings.
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In the 12 years since, Republicans have endured one nasty primary campaign after another, sometimes felling party giants (like Eric Cantor) and sometimes costing the party winnable Senate seats (as has happened in Delaware, Indiana and Missouri).
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In an opinion piece in The Washington Examiner, a conservative outlet, one writer said the national party would be "insane" to put "one ounce of support" into the race, urging donors to focus on winnable districts instead.
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This is a largely sensible approach, but it's based on the premise that the top political operatives have very good judgment about which races are winnable, which candidates are strong, and which consulting and campaign teams are effective.
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He appears genuinely to believe that tearing up the rules on which international trade is based will make America great again, and that the trade war which could well follow is an easily winnable part of the process.
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Instead, they're reading from the Clinton/DNC primary playbook: tipping the scales of a winnable race and alienating the progressive backers of a progressive candidate for no discernible reason, other than that it might make winning slightly easier.
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Though Tea Party activists focused on challenging GOP incumbents in primaries managed to sometimes replace a lawmaker with someone more conservative, they also lost winnable general election races in states like Indiana and Missouri after winning the primaries.
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Heading into the election season, the DCCC appears to have believed the sixth district was winnable – internal polling from September included in the Guccifer 2202 documents suggests that 2628 percent of the district wanted to vote against Costello.
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Washington (CNN)In California, Democrats are hopeful they've avoided the potential nightmare of being locked out of winnable House races due to the state's unique primary system that allows the top two candidates of any party to advance.
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A former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said the U.S. Border Patrol has been dealt an "un-winnable hand" amid reports that agents have been sharing racist and sexist images in a secret Facebook group.
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The New York Times reported in April that federal civil rights prosecutors have recommended charges against Officer Pantaleo, but top Justice Department officials expressed strong reservations about moving forward with a case they think may not be winnable.
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History has been shaped by people refusing to listen to people telling them that progress isn't possible, so I want to preface this by saying we believe this is winnable and we're putting everything we have into it.
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William Westmoreland, American and Vietnamese soldiers, and South Vietnamese civilians, Humphrey convinced himself of the truth he wanted to believe: Vietnam was winnable; it was a war for democracy; it represented a global mission for peace and prosperity.
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"It's a very promotable, very winnable approach when you want to get your legislation passed," Gary Schwitzer, editor in chief of Health News Review, told me when I asked him about the legislation and messaging earlier this year.
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Patrick has grown incredulous about whether Biden's supposed advantages of fame, experience, and status as a frontrunner are strengths or neutral characteristics in a race he sees as winnable for a candidate offering more humility, vision, and vulnerability.
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Clinton was referring to with that insidious "they" that, like some invisible army of adversaries (real and imagined), wielded its collective power and caused her to lose the most winnable presidential election in modern history, it was me.
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They're hoping a close race — or even a shock victory — will boost momentum and mobilize voters in next week's highly anticipated Georgia special election, which Democrats see as both a potential referendum on Trump and much more winnable.
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Jon Soltz, co-founder of Vote Vets, which seeks to elect Democratic veterans, said the group will start raising money soon for several House districts it thinks are winnable in 2020 after narrow losses by veterans in 2018.
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Finnigan, whom I spoke by phone with recently, was writing in 22018 and even years before that the political intelligentsia had it wrong: Pennsylvania was more winnable than anybody on the GOP side except for him seemed to realize.
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Sanders, who has focused his efforts on a small number of winnable states on past primary days, is now shifting his campaign strategy to pick up as many delegates as possible, even in states he knows he will lose.
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Bolten, now the president of the Business Roundtable, told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace that Trump's recent tweet calling for a tax on European Union (EU) cars suggests that he thinks a trade war is easy and winnable.
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The bottom line, as Bloomberg's Jonathan Bernstein has noted, is that there are vanishingly few places in which Democrats seem likely to forfeit winnable seats because of a weak nominee or one who's out of step with the district.
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Mr. Schumer has told allies he believes the race is now clearly winnable for Mr. Jones, but that Democrats must take pains not to nationalize the contest in a way that might offend voters in a deeply conservative state.
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After scoring 26 or more points in his first 21 career starts, Patrick Mahomes has been held to fewer than 25 in consecutive weeks, losing a pair of winnable games at home, including Sunday's 31-24 loss to Houston.
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THE DEATH OF CANCER: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable — and How We Can Get There, by Vincent T. DeVita Jr. and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn.
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Those hopes have dimmed in the wake of Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation; the bitter battle over his Supreme Court nomination awoke sleepy Republican electorates across the country and tightened races Democrats had viewed as winnable contests just last month.
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"What worries me at the moment is President Trump and many in his administration are using the same kind of language about winnable [nuclear war and] bloody-nose strike against North Korea without realizing the consequences of that," he said.
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It feels hard to fight when you aren't sure the fight is winnable, when you can't see a light at the end of the tunnel of oppression — when you were so close to history and yet so far from justice.
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"Among conservatives, there is definitely some disgruntlement because some of the members in more winnable seats are conservative, and it's not like they were just putting some money into Comstock's district - it was ungodly amounts," the source told The Hill.
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With the climate in Washington becoming more hostile to unions, worker advocates might focus on more winnable local battles, having just won statewide referendums to raise the minimum wage to $12 in Arizona, Colorado and Maine and $13.50 in Washington.
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No matter who wins the Democratic primary, Republicans still see the governorship as winnable, both because of Mr. Malloy's status, according to a recent survey, as the least popular governor in the nation, and past trends in the state's elections.
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In a cycle when Democrats might retake the Senate — with Pennsylvania as one of their most winnable seats — the resistance to Sestak is raising questions about at what point personal stubbornness becomes a campaign liability, for candidates and parties alike.
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Trump's favorable numbers did get a boost after he won the election, likely due to new respect from Republicans who were angry in the summer and fall that his antics seemed to be blowing a very winnable election for the GOP.
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Fallon's argument is that the most winnable districts for House Democrats are those that largely fit the profile of the Georgia Sixth — suburban, affluent, and full of voters who may be traditionally Republican but who voted against Donald Trump this fall.
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"What her victory has done is reaffirmed for us that there's a path to victory, that this is winnable and that it's going to come down to the field," Ms. Pressley said, referring to how campaign workers get out the vote.
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If we abandon the common-sense belief that deems only winnable fights worth fighting, we can adopt Unamuno's "moral courage" and become quixotic pessimists: pessimists because we recognize our odds of losing are quite high, and quixotic because we fight anyway.
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"I don't think there is any serious analyst of the situation in Afghanistan who believes that the war is winnable," Laurel Miller, a former acting special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the State Department, said in a podcast last summer.
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National Republicans believed that Mr. Blankenship would have cost them a winnable Senate seat just as in Alabama last year, when primary voters chose Roy S. Moore, who was accused by several women of making sexual advances toward them as teenagers.
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The race pitted the incumbent, Michael Venditto, a first-term Republican with some family political baggage, against John E. Brooks, a former insurance executive who now seems tantalizingly close to capturing a seat that few Democrats thought was winnable until recently.
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But the comment has deepened the impression that Mr. Trump may consider modern great power conflict to be winnable, an idea that has been out of favor since the first years of the Cold War, when nuclear deterrence made it unthinkable.
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"I think the smart play is to think real hard about going beyond those 10 senators up for reelection and start figuring out how to put some money into some other races that could, in fact, be winnable now," Manley said.
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But if you define everything as war — including things that don't make any particular sense to define as war, like a war on terror, which is no more winnable than a war on crime — this is the attitude you get.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and his son are publicly warning Roy Moore against seeking a US Senate seat in Alabama, fearing that the allegations of sexual assault that torpedoed his bid two years ago will again cost Republicans a winnable election.
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To be sure, the Trump campaign is under no illusion that Oregon is winnable at this point, but they also know that re-taking states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan or even Iowa, where the President is traveling on Tuesday, are hardly sure bets.
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Malloy argued a focus on governors' races in the coming years is critical, too -- because those statewide races are more winnable than GOP-drawn state legislative districts, giving Democrats a voice or at least a veto in many states headed into 2020.
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Moore's loss could foreshadow a disastrous 20073 for Republicans — the nightmare scenario of losing the House and winnable Senate seats that top strategists and lawmakers have been worried about, as Trump's legislative agenda grinds to a halt and the party increasingly fractures.
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Tough but winnable games against the Cardinals, the Bills, and the Jets set up a potential win-and-in game against the Patriots—who, by that time, may have long since clinched everything there is to be clinched, and could be resting starters.
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Of the seats on Labour's hit list, the most winnable 64—the number needed for the party to gain a majority—are a near-even mix of those that voted to leave the EU and those that voted to remain (see map).
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Until we step back as a party and realize that future success is incumbent upon a bold move to realign and begin talking to those voters who are seeking consensus policies that lift them up, we will continue to lose winnable elections.
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For Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and the Stop Trump movement, the state, which had seemed winnable as recently as last week, is most likely the last opportunity to deny Mr. Trump the delegates he needs to avoid a contested convention in July.
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Because more Democratic candidates than GOP candidates are running in several competitive districts, Democrats are worried that the party could get locked out of the top two in as many as three districts they otherwise believe are winnable in November's midterm elections.
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There is no shame in falling to Teheran, one of the league's best starters this season, with a 2.66 E.R.A. But the Mets' slumping offense and losses in two winnable games against rookie pitchers earlier in the series provided cause for concern.
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Barack Obama became president in 2008 with the help from white evangelicals, and there is no reason why Florida Democrats cannot use their shared concerns about social and economic justice and compassion for the disenfranchised to reach out to this winnable demographic.
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Imagine, a Rand Paul or a Mike Lee or even a Rick Perry as the Libertarian nominee, for instance, and you can imagine a scenario where Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, or even Texas and Oklahoma might be winnable for the Libertarian ticket.
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That poll was conducted mostly before Trump's endorsement of Donovan, which the incumbent played up at the first debate on Monday, reminding GOP voters they don't want to have another Alabama situation where the GOP hands over a winnable race to Democrats.
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The poll numbers are the latest evidence that the race in Iowa remains fluid and winnable for the top four candidates, who have all crisscrossed the state in recent weeks to try to persuade supporters to come out for them on caucus night.
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But as the Harris challenge gained steam, chatter increased about the fate of Republican Mike Castle, the former governor, lieutenant governor and congressman whose defeat in 2010 to a tea party outsider effectively squandered what had been viewed as a winnable Senate seat.
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The unexpected election of Trump, and the deluge of near-daily debacles that have come to define the first year of his Administration, have in all likelihood made most of these pro-Clinton "Toss Up" and "Lean Republican" seats winnable for Democrats.
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With President Trump's favorability in the dumps amid historic midterm trends that favor the party out of power, the Democrats see a chance to take back the House with what they say is the largest field of winnable seats in a decade.
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The main driver of the boost is an 11 percent increase in favorability among Republicans — many of whom were probably mad pre-election that he seemed to be blowing a winnable race and are now looking much more kindly on their party's leader.
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With teams like Atlanta, Indiana and Chicago having traded or lost key players and considered the next wave of floppers, if not tankers, could the Nets' youth and enthusiasm translate to more winnable games and possibly even elevation into contention for the playoffs?
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Supporters of the compact argue that under the current system candidates focus only on a few winnable swing states, which has the effect of the presidential election really being fought only in a handful of places like Florida, the Rust Belt, North Carolina and Arizona.
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Wisconsin isn't a must-win state for a Republican in the general election -- but it is winnable, and, like Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, it's home to a vulnerable senator (Ron Johnson) who the GOP hopes will be part of a governing majority next year.
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"The fact that Treasury has warned the South Korean banks will be strong evidence that further actions are wilful when the U.S. authorities decide what legal actions are appropriate and winnable," he said, noting that institutions could face a combination of civil penalties and forfeitures.
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Ohio is trending in the same direction: It's still winnable by either party, but the state has moved right even while Colorado, Nevada, and Virginia have moved left — meaning that there are plenty of scenarios in which Trump wins it while losing the election.
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It's terrific recognition from the NBA's sixth-best defense, and Milwaukee's inability/unwillingness to attack in different ways early in the fourth might be—in addition to a questionable substitution pattern and odd double-teams down the stretch—what cost them a winnable game.
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What's more, other midterm victories for progressive women who ran down-ballot in Georgia—like Lucy McBath, who flipped the 6th congressional district seat Democrats failed to clinch in 2017—suggest it could be a winnable battleground state for the party going into 2020.
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"It's a wonderful problem to have, but we have so many Democrats running, and in some seats where Democrats just didn't run, or didn't have primaries because it wasn't winnable, and they all need staff," said Christina Reynolds, vice president of communications at the organization.
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"Neither our Republican caucus, nor our party as a whole, can afford further erosion among key demographics," Ms. Stefanik wrote, in collaboration with three other members of Congress, adding that Republicans were "falling short in races that were otherwise winnable," including in suburban districts.
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This was trampled territory for those who cheer on the Bills, with a brutal schedule on the horizon but hey, there's a winnable game this week, and if Buffalo can beat the Chargers, they're 6-19693 and in a playoff spot with six weeks remaining.
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Line, which is based in Japan but owned by Korea's Naver group, has placed priority on monetizing its userbase — currently 215 million monthly active users — and expanding its presence in 'winnable' parts of Asia, over making gains in Europe and the U.S. as it had done before.
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And yeah, this fight is a cash grab that wasn't booked for merit: it's part revenge opportunity for Bisping, who makes his first title defense in a totally winnable rematch over the guy who embarrassed him seven years ago, and part lifetime achievement award for Henderson.
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"We were taking this overwhelming, maddening, depressing, very sad thing that my community and my city were going through and figuring out what pieces of it we could bite off and fix, finding winnable fights in something that felt like a morass and was terrible," she said.
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It might not be fair to say that the Cleveland Browns squandered their last chance at a winnable game on Sunday, since they still have the Bills and the San Diego Chargers, but opportunities to get in the win column in 2016 are quickly running out.
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Add in the clearly rebuilding and not reloading Reds in their own division, and the fact that 753 percent of the NL East and 40 percent of the NL West are bad baseball teams, and, well, you have a lot of winnable games on your schedule.
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That attacks on Moser backfired is a reminder that the political judgment of the pros in Washington is flawed, and both narrative history and broad quantitative research shows that their ability to accurately identify which races are winnable and which candidates are worth backing is sharply limited.
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The overall picture is fairly clear: The states that voted for Mr. Obama and switched to Mr. Trump are still winnable for Democrats, but the party will find it hard to return to its prior levels in the communities that swung most to the current president.
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What seemed a winnable race for Republicans against Mr. Gillum, an outspoken progressive who supports impeaching Mr. Trump, has instead become neck-and-neck, with the charismatic Democrat drawing far larger crowds than Mr. DeSantis, a telegenic Fox News regular who has proved uneven on the trail.
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But the generals on the Joint Chiefs of Staff pushed back — the war was winnable, they insisted, if only the president would double down on bombing, mine the North's main port of Haiphong harbor and add 200,553 men to the ranks, most of them destined for Vietnam.
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They're worried that money raised by Great America, coupled with potentially significant investments in primary races from the Mercer family, which owns a portion of Breitbart, could sink one or two incumbents in primaries and hobble others enough that they lose winnable general election races to Democrats.
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The key, though, is to recognize that while these are winnable races, we are talking about constituencies that are more conservative than the US average — places where successful progressive candidates would need to pick their battles carefully, rather than signing on to the entire laundry list of activist demands.
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Forward Majority, a political action committee created this election cycle, is spending $9 million on some 120 contests in six battleground states - aiming to put enough seats into to play to give Democrats a chance at flipping chambers that are not generally considered winnable, such as the Texas House.
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There's a lot that's winnable, and we're in a wildly destabilized era where we can really make big changes we couldn't have under Obama or Clinton — possibly profound changes in the Democratic party and in how we think about popular power and building new movements and setting big goals.
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Read: Former Franken staffers wonder if the #MeToo movement got the wrong guy The allegations have upended what should've been an easily winnable race for the Republican, with some in Moore's own party calling on him to drop out of the race as some polls showed the race tightening.
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"I don't think there is any serious analyst of the situation in Afghanistan who believes that the war is winnable," Laurel Miller, a political scientist at the RAND Corporation, said in a podcast last summer, after leaving her State Department stint as acting special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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But the liberal backlash to President Trump here has prompted so many to pursue office that Democrats fear their candidates will divide the vote and leave the party that has won every statewide election for a decade without a general election candidate, in what should be winnable races.
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While it lacks the depth and rigor of former candidate Jay Inslee's five-part climate road map, it remains true to the goals of Castro's campaign, namely, instituting winnable reforms while keeping in mind the concerns of populations that have not always been at the center of national conversations.
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You can't help but think that because, on paper at least, Henderson is a far more winnable task for Bisping in front of his hometown support than the other top contenders, it has something to do with why he is being suddenly name dropped into the title conversation.
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As unlikely as that scenario is, the Dolphins winning two of three could sneak them in into the field as a Wild Card; two very winnable road games against the Jets and Bills could set head coach Adam Gase up for a playoff campaign in his very first year.
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WASHINGTON — Federal civil rights prosecutors have recommended charges against a New York police officer in the 2014 death of Eric Garner, three current and former officials said, but top Justice Department officials have expressed strong reservations about whether to move forward with a case they say may not be winnable.
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"We were taking this overwhelming, maddening, depressing, very sad thing that my community and my city were going through and figuring out what pieces of it we could bite off and fix, finding winnable fights in something that felt like a morass and was terrible," she told The New Yorker.
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But Republicans have eight congressmen who sit in seats that voted for Obama both times and Clinton, and there are still three Democrats in districts that voted for each of the last three Republican presidential candidates, so the presidential vote isn't necessarily the last word on whether a district is winnable.
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"Houston is pretty indicative of a broader trend that's been happening cycle after cycle where they have an outdated playbook of what a winnable district is and what an electable candidate is," said Annie Weinberg, the executive director of Democracy For America, one of the DCCC's loudest critics within progressive ranks.
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Beyond the biggest blue states, perhaps two dozen red-hued districts with significant suburban populations could be winnable for Democrats in a banner year, including those held by Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dave Reichert of Washington State; Ted Budd and Robert Pittenger of North Carolina; and Kevin Yoder of Kansas.
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Although he was a gung-ho warrior type and always believed the Vietnam War was winnable, Vann came to realize the attrition strategy was a failure, the constant bombing of the countryside was helping Vietcong recruitment, and the rampant corruption in the Saigon leadership, funded through American dollars, was devastating to the cause.
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Republican Party politicians and other professionals could have seen that this was a very winnable race and pushed the party toward an indistinct Republican nominee (with views at the median of the Republican Party) who could have taken office and signed a long list of conservative policy priorities coming out of a Republican Congress.
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The Republicans probably will retain their majority in next year's midterms—they are defending eight seats to the Democrats' 25, including 10 in states that Mr Trump won—but it is hardly a foregone conclusion anymore: in 2010 and 2012 several far-right candidates won Republican primaries but lost winnable seats in the general.
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"If that's the case and the DCCC is spending millions of dollars in seats that aren't really winnable based on the information that they have, then that means come next November, they're not going to have the money to support candidacies against legitimately vulnerable Republicans," said Bill Burton, who worked at the DCCC in 2006.
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While many card games lend themselves nicely to straightforward direct calculations — calculating the odds of drawing particular poker hands, for example, is a classic exercise in basic probability theory — Ulam realized that trying to directly calculate the probability of a particular solitaire game being winnable in a similar fashion would be difficult or impossible.
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Emmer said he plans to start making phone calls to those lawmakers in January, and he listed about two dozen districts he feels are winnable or in play for 2020 after flipping from red to blue last month, including Illinois's 14th Congressional District, New York's 11th and 85033nd districts, Virginia's 2nd and Oklahoma's 5th.
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The Democrats' grogginess is a reflection, party strategists say, of their overextension, channeling energy and dollars toward a perhaps more winnable fight on defending Obamacare; of their depleted coffers following a costly 2016 presidential campaign; and of their poor political positioning, largely seeing Gorsuch as clean, qualified and tough to attack, at least before the hearings begin Monday.
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Updates to New York Times correspondent Peter Baker's history of the Obama presidency, "Obama: The Call of History," published by the Daily Mail, detail how the president was overcome with anger in the days following Clinton's defeat to Trump, which Obama saw as a result of her inability to translate his policy successes into a winnable message.
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Once thought to be an entirely winnable seat for Democrats, North Dakota appears gone for the Democrats in part because of Heidi HeitkampMary (Heidi) Kathryn HeitkampPence to push new NAFTA deal in visit to Iowa Al Franken says he 'absolutely' regrets resigning Trump nominees meet fiercest opposition from Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand MORE voting against the Supreme Court confirmation.
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There is a chance Detroit is looking past this matchup to focus on Week 12's division battle with Minnesota, but taking care of business in an extremely winnable road game against a struggling team like the Bears (3-6) is one of the little things a team has to do before it can be taken seriously.
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I've no doubt that it also comes from the contentment of having been transported into a moment in history when a war seemed truly winnable; when the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States was in its honeymoon phase; and when the line between good guys and bad guys seemed fixed and unblurred.
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Sebastian GorkaSebastian Lukacs GorkaPlayboy White House correspondent says he'll sue over suspended credentials Playboy plans to appeal after reporter says his White House credentials were suspended Gorka criticizes reporter after heated Rose Garden exchange MORE Ph.D. is the author of the New York Times bestseller "Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War" and former deputy assistant and strategist to President Trump.
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The race in California's 50th District between Hunter, the son of a long-revered congressman, and his Democratic opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, who is estranged from his father and was raised by his Mexican-American mother in California, is one that Democrats never really believed was winnable after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the district by 15 points.
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"I don't personally think anybody should have to disclose private information," he said while awaiting the start of a "meet the candidates" event last week in Cabin Creek, W.Va. National Republican leaders are alarmed that Mr. Blankenship could emerge as the winner of the primary, which they fear would cost them a winnable seat in November against Senator Joe Manchin, a vulnerable Democrat.
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The military doesn't deserve to get thrust into endless wars with no winnable mission; to nation-build or stand up governments that have no hope for sustainability without our military; or to be given failed yo-yo strategies that bounce from administration to administration, with fancy new names and stellar generals whose careers inevitably end because they are tasked with the impossible.
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Trump's wild unpopularity made a lot more House seats look winnable later on in the election, but Democrats were largely stuck with the candidates they had found earlier in the cycle — a beekeeper in California, an unemployed man with a checkered history of failed debt payments in New Jersey, and a Kansas commodities trader with no experience running for elected office.
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Hubris, election year requisites, Lyndon Johnson's and Robert McNamara's deception of the Joint Chief's of Staff, the dismissal of warnings that the war was not winnable and a blatant disregard for human life in pursuit of personal politics all play center stage in this exposé by a career military man not afraid to criticize his own – and the politicians who lied to themselves and the nation.
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And despite the fact that President Donald Trump won the district by 20 points in 2016, Democrats view the seat as winnable and worth contesting -- a Monmouth University poll in mid-February had Saccone up just 3 points over Lamb, 49% to 0003%, and the race presents an opportunity for Democrats to test messaging in a Trump-friendly district ahead of the 2018 midterms.
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"The fight against Brett Kavanaugh is winnable but only if Senate Democrats quickly unite in opposition so we can focus on pressuring a Republican to break ranks," Demand Justice co-founder and former Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE spokesman Brian Fallon said.
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But in a year where Arizona is slated to have multiple high profile general election races in November -- including a closely watched contest for the state's open Senate seat, a chance to challenge Arizona's Republican governor and a winnable open House seat -- a dozen Democrats in the state and around the country told CNN that they see their efforts to back a longshot congressional candidate as a test run for November.
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RELATED: Republican favored to win Arizona special election, but it could be close Their thinking heading into the race went like this: If Tipirneni keeps it close with Lesko in a district that Trump won by more than 20 points, Democrats in Arizona stand to make significant gains in key races later this year like a closely watched contest for the state's open Senate seat, a chance to challenge Arizona's Republican governor and a winnable open House seat.
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With control of both houses of Congress so vital to the future of the nation, party leaders and activists should go all-out to draft candidates such as Steve BullockSteve BullockBrent Budowsky: Bloomberg should give billion to Democrats Key moments in the 2020 Democratic presidential race so far Kamala Harris dropped out, but let's keep her mental health plan alive MORE in Montana and Stacey Abrams in Georgia to run in vital and winnable Senate elections.
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Both parties see seat as winnable, by Stephanie Saul (New York Times) > People voted for Trump because they were anxious, not poor, according to a deep-dive of 2012 and 2016 elections, by Olga Khazan (The Atlantic) > Theories abound about how Democrats could win the White House in 2020, by Amy Walter (Cook Political Report) > Gavin Newsom, California lieutenant governor and a leading candidate for governor, revises past statements to say he never formally entered rehab for alcohol abuse, by Angela Hart (Sacramento Bee) THE CLOSER And finally … 'Ghost Nets' and Ocean Trash: Two scientific studies find threats to marine life worse than researchers thought, as cleanup efforts attempt to tackle a serious global problem (National Geographic).
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