In two new polls, Romney trails Obama -- in one by 50 points, the other by 68 points -- among Latino voters.
Minnesota's 6th congressional district is conservative -- it voted for John McCain over Barack Obama for the presidency by 8 points -- but Bachmann won her race last year by just 3 percentage points after one of her controversial statements put her seat at risk in the homestretch.
Finally, while in 2008 women dominated the electorate by 8-points (54-46), they were a much smaller share of swing voters than many pundits would have you believe.
Casey, who started on pole, led from front with the result never looking in doubt as Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo -- who had led the series by four points - fruitlessly gave chase.
In the Gallup poll that was out over the weekend, among registered voters, McCain was up by four points - so not a lot, but better than he was going into his convention, where he was behind in the same poll - and among likely voters up by 10 points.
It is not often that United -- who lead the English Premier League by five points -- finish in third, though a raft of recent financial deals could give next season's Football League table a very different complexion.
Earlier, the USA women's team routed their Brazilian counterparts, 99-67 -- led by 21 points from the three-time WNBA All Star Lindsay Whalen.
Shapiro does not dignify the so-called authorship question by spending pages dismantling its points one by one--many others have already done that--but surprisingly he does treat many of its proponents with a certain degree of respect, putting their views in cultural contexts that explain, if hardly justify, why they've spent so much time, energy and resources on their claims.
Euribor futures advanced by 16 basis points while the two-year yield sank by 12 basis points to 1.78%.
Childers, a conservative Democrat and local chancery clerk, defeated Davis, the mayor of Southaven, by 4 percentage points -- a stunning upset by any measure, considering the state's deeply conservative leanings.
But fueled by emotion after teammate Kevin Ware gruesomely broke his leg, the Cardinals (33-5) beat Duke by 22 points, the second-most lopsided loss of the season for coach Mike Krzyzewski's team.
His New Democracy party controls just 151 seats in the 300-member parliament and trails by 4-5 percentage points in opinion polls.
In the Marstons Shropshire League , leaders Reman Services (150-7) took 13 points against Newtown (54-5), but second-placed Madeley were frustrated by the weather - taking seven points (92-7) against Wem (55-23).
Between the presidential elections of 1960 and 2004, their share of the southern white male vote shrank by 17 points, but among non-southern whites it still shrank by 12 points.
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They lose a game by 31 points -- worst home playoff loss ever.
The stock has fared better than arch-rival Coca-Cola, but has still plunged by double-digit percentage points since the beginning of the year.
Obama, meanwhile, leads McCain by seven points -- 49 to 42 percent.
Should Bafana Bafana win at home, they will lead Egypt - the reigning African champions - by six points with only three qualifiers left.
It is almost three years to the day since Bank slashed the official base rate - by 1.5 percentage points - in response to the banking crisis.
The 38-year-old beat Sussex's star spinner Mushtaq Ahmed - also one of the runners up in voting for player of the year - by 135 points in the inaugural county player rankings.
Crossings at Polish border-points fell by more than two-thirds.
Implied yields on 90-day bill prices slipped by three basis points along the curve and the lower yield environment spread to the long end where benchmark 10-year yields dropped by three basis points to 5.45%.
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None of the big New Zealand banks currently meets the new threshold, and because longer-term borrowing is dearer, the central bank expects lending costs to increase by 10-20 basis points.
The visitors could - and perhaps should - have been gunning for a Grand Slam, having beaten England, only to then draw with Ireland thanks to a late Brian O'Driscoll try and lose 9-8 to Scotland despite producing attacking statistics that suggested they should have won by around 30-40 points.
Third-placed Bayer Leverkusen dropped six points behind Dortmund after being held 1-1 at home by Wolfsburg, while Schalke went three points above Frankfurt with a 2-0 win at Werder Bremen.
Within minutes of the restart France - fresh from a roasting by coach Bernard Laporte - stretched their lead to 10 points by mauling captain Pelous over for their third try.
Competition among EU member nations has forced the top corporate-tax rate down by ten percentage points since the mid-1990s, according to Elga Bartsch of Morgan Stanley.
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After all, in 2008 Barack Obama won by 34 percentage points among young voters and by 39 points among first-time voters.
Those polled who called themselves very liberal, and moderate, went with Clinton over Obama -- although by less than 2 percentage points in each -- and those who said they are somewhat liberal were evenly split.
Mr Specter faced a strong challenge in next year's Republican primary from Patrick Toomey, a fierce conservative who has been ahead of him in the polls by some 20 points, buoyed by white-hot Republican fury at the Obama administration and generously financed by the low-tax, minimal-government lobby, the Club for Growth.
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