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In September, for example, Yarrow commented on a study proving that wine competitions generate inconsistent results, but in his own comments refused to beat around the bush, stating that a gold medal is no proof whatsoever that a wine will taste good.
Ostensibly, the shift is to let customers count on a lone upgrade date for all of their connected devices, but let's not beat around the bush: the longer intervals are bad for any subscriber whose desire for a new phone or tablet doesn't perfectly dovetail with their contract length.
The first Bush beat the somewhat robotic and unsympathetic Michael Dukakis but he then lost to the younger, more telegenic Clinton.
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It's very popular among elected officials to beat up on the Bush administration.
Despite the contrast in their running mates, Bush still beat Michael Dukakis in the 1988 election.
"I like and respect each one of them, but for me one candidate rose to the top as our best shot to beat George W. Bush and to give Americans the opportunity to take our country back, " Harkin told Dean supporters at the former Vermont governor's state campaign headquarters.
Bush 43 beat the awkward Gore and his makeup and wardrobe problems.
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It was a crushing defeat for the Democrats, who decided that the way to beat Jindal was to try to link him with President Bush and the war in Iraq.
When asked whether being able to beat President Bush was more important than the issues in the campaign, more than half said issues were more important, while only about one-third put beating Bush at the top of their agenda.
After Mr Bush, the politician who stands to benefit most from the war in America, at least is Tony Blair, the one man who could probably beat Mr Bush in an election.
"He has been thinking about this decision long and hard, and felt that Governor Dean rose to the top as the best candidate to beat George W. Bush in November, " she said.
Kerry was hoping that same issue would lift him to a primary victory in Oklahoma, where he was the top choice of those in that state who said it was most important that the Democratic candidate be able to beat Bush, though less than a third of respondents said electability was more important than issues.
The Center for Security Policy today released an analysis of the just-concluded Bush-Gorbachev summit in Helsinki which sharply challenged up-beat assessments of the meeting's results.
Polls in bigger states, including New York and Massachusetts, have shown him better placed to beat the Republican front-runner, George W. Bush, than Mr Gore.
McCain beat Bush in New Hampshire and Michigan early, but a Bush win in hotly contested South Carolina was the first sign that his huge financial and party support advantage would wipe out McCain.
So he's back up to the same margin President Bush had when he beat John Kerry in 2004.
In 2000, Democrat Al Gore beat Bush by less than 7, 000 votes in the state.
In 2004 George Bush beat John Kerry by seven points there, and the latest Rasmussen poll has Mr McCain up by the same margin.
On Saturday, he told NBC's Today Show that he is still running for the presidential nomination but will do whatever is necessary to beat George Bush.
When Bill Clinton beat Bush four years later, his favorable rating was 60 percent just after the election.
McCain used the Bob Jones rally to draw support from independents and Democrats who helped him beat Bush in Michigan's primary.
And the opinion polls now show that Mr McCain would beat Al Gore by 24 points, but Mr Bush would beat him by only five.
Although George Bush beat McCain among registered Republicans that year, independents, who accounted for 41 percent of the total GOP turnout, handed McCain the win.
And asked which man would better handle relations with other countries, Bush -- charged by his critics with alienating the world community through unilateralism -- beat his Democratic challenger by a 52 percent to 44 percent margin.
Above all, Mr Kerry's perceived ability to beat George Bush that magical aura of electability has gone from being an important advantage to the decisive one.
He won 32% of the vote, defeating his nearest rival, Mike Huckabee, by a bigger margin than George Bush beat Steve Forbes by in 1999.
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