In short, the race between two popular and respected incumbents is coming down to an almost visceral choice: my politics or my pork?
David Easton, a New York decorator, knows people who can fix anything short of a horse race.
Big mistake as prices will become artificial and allow inefficient operators to stay in place so short changing the human race in the medium to long term.
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Australia, 153-6 going into the final over, lost Mitchell Johnson cheaply yet ended on a high as Mike Hussey clubbed an Edwards no-ball for six and then saw an outside edge race past short fine-leg for a bonus four.
The presidential race is also growing short on time, with the election now less than three months away.
The race starts with a short team time trial in Venice on Saturday, with Stapleton's Team Columbia and the Garmin, Astana and Saxo Bank squads expected to feature.
They were among the jockeys who left the Leicester track in protest after the first race only to return a short while later to carry on riding.
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Even long-proven areas of massive exposure like gender or race bias can still catch them short.
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National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole issued a sobering assessment of the race, saying "time is short" for his party to establish a bold agenda that will lead to election victories in the fall.
Duane Kinsley of Sport Systems, an athletic store in Albuquerque which owns the race, said the last-minute decision to cancel was spurred by the store's inability to provide additional personal details for all of the estimated 2, 000 race participants and spectators within a short time frame.
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With the two-hour time limit coming up, the race looked set to finish two laps short of the scheduled 61 as the drivers finally got the go-ahead to continue racing.
In short, devaluation is the very embodiment of a "race to the bottom, " demonstrated by the exporter's relative economic weakness infecting the economic health of the importer.
There will be no short term resolution and we will see an escalating arms race and cyber weapons incorporated in most arsenals long before we see any international agreement to restrict cyber arms.
In Olympic Stadium, meanwhile, America's top female sprinters outpaced their Jamaican competitors to earn gold in the prestigious 4 x 100-meter relay -- though their long dominant countrymen fell just short in the 4 X 400-meter men's race.
In a six-man race, he received 4, 995 votes, just short of a majority.
Competitors in the men's and women's marathons started and finished in The Mall, completing one short and three long loops during the 26.2-mile race through central London.
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And on election night in Iowa, it looked like Santorum had narrowly missed his first surprise victory in the race when initial counts showed he had come eight votes short of beating Romney.
Earnhardt did his best to earn his second win in the "Great American Race, " but his last-lap charge came up short.
But with such a short election schedule and a Star Wars bar full of candidates, the race could turn on name recognition.
In short, Mr Edwards has established himself as a serious rival and ensured the race will go on longer.
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Within five minutes of the restart, Sa'u had his hat-trick - first, finishing off another fluid movement in the corner and then dancing through the tackles to race over as New Zealand again took advantage of the opposition's short condensed line.
The McLaren P1 is, essentially, a road car with the performance of a race car that can also drive like a zero-emissions electric vehicle for short distances.
Ultimately, he likely made the right call from a PR perspective to stave off further short term brand agony, but his reputation is irreparable regardless in the lose-lose race created by his own hand.
For someone who had never gone faster than 8 knots on a sailboat, watching him and his crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round-the-World Race blaze through the Southern Ocean on the 90-foot Steinlager II was nothing short of incredible.
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"In the end it wasn't possible in such short order to get it televised, but the call shocked me, " says Hall, the race director.
Short of cutting petrol taxes still further (John McCain and Hillary Clinton proposed a tax holiday during the 2008 race), or mounting an irresponsible raid on the strategic oil reserve for political purposes, he has no ready way to make petrol cheaper for the American voter.
The result was that a short audio clip broadcast featuring Mr Zimmerman talking to police prominently included an apparently unprompted description of Trayvon Martin's race.
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