But if those numbers are comforting for Republicans, the trends below the surface are less so.
The mundane can be quite comforting for those terrified of leaving their comfort zone.
The news overnight has not been comforting for the millions of Americans who look to municipal bonds as a safe way to earn tax-sheltered income.
"It's been really comforting for me to reflect on small things rather than where I am with my weight loss process and my writing career, " she told CNN.
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It can't have been comforting for Hondurans to learn that while their country was living a monumental crisis, fueled by U.S. policy, Mr. Restrepo's concern was his party's power.
More comforting for those feeling abandoned by the city during a storm is that it will soon be possible to see, via the web, exactly where Mr Emanuel's snowploughs are and what they are doing.
Hardly a comforting thought for Mr Karzai as he seeks to put new life into his bereaved administration.
Yet, with Allianz getting less sentimental about its shareholdings, that is no longer a comforting thought for Mr Walter.
Even just a few years ago, long-range marketing plans were a kind of comforting bedrock for our teams .
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That should be a comforting thought for the world's flummoxed financial regulators.
This is a comforting paradigm for people in the defense sector, because it implies there is more predictability to their business than the geopolitical forces driving demand might otherwise suggest.
Or, for more thoroughly familiar fare, end your child-friendly Delhi day in at the United Coffee House for a comforting bowl of pasta marinara, the All American Diner for a pretty decent hotdog or The Kitchen at the heart of the relaxed Khan Market, for a big, familiar plate of fish and chips before bedtime.
"She was a GREAT and comforting role model for single mothers, as I was one of them at that same time, " wrote a CNN.com commenter with the handle Gera Merix.
"Words cannot express how comforting this has been for us, " he said.
So thanks a lot, Ugobe, for throwing those comforting laws right out the window and defining your own Three Laws of Ugobe Life Forms (as follows).
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Everything involving the potato, for example, is comforting.
They presented the hymnwriter as a fragile and precarious being, often poised on the brink of desolation and desperate for the deity's comforting hand.
And the awareness of international support for this process has to be a comforting one, without the suspicion of outside manipulation or the primacy of other interests.
This is less comforting than it sounds, because the usual method for doing a safety analysis is to include all the deaths that occurred in patients who were assigned to take a drug, not just those that are clearly linked to a treatment, in order to avoid missing anything.
For many, there's nothing quite so comforting as cracking open a good book.
Rick spares no time for his new daughter and gives no thought to comforting his traumatized son.
This leads to a comforting conclusion: if Mr Murdoch comes to Mr Blair looking for reciprocal favours, the Labour leader can safely call his bluff.
In other words, doing a good job of the analysis required by an enterprise architecture means that CITOs must escape the comforting cocoon of technology concerns, something that is never easy for them.
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Snipes was sentenced in April to the three-year maximum for those counts after prosecutors said anything less would send comforting signals to the tax protester movement.
Forty percent of people who make resolutions are usually still successful after six months, a comforting sign that people can change their behavior, and a lesson for us all.
Mr. CHAPIN: So the politics literally are everywhere and so as someone who really cares about elections, it's comforting to me to know that the polling place is a safe place for voters.
Posts as ads may sound scary, but in a world where we're constantly being bombarded with advertisements, there's something almost comforting in knowing that your friends are slowly becoming a more powerful tool for advertising than many of those million-dollar ad agencies pushing Budweiser or insurance policies at you.
The possibility of your abuse ending up fodder for a national media frenzy that rivals the Super Bowl would hardly seem comforting to most potential disclosers.
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