Now, however, the candidates are scrapping for Michigan's 17 electoral votes (270 are needed to win the presidency).
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Rival streaming radio services such as Stitcher, TuneIn and National Public Radio are also scrapping for space on dashboard displays.
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While Samsung and Apple have run away into the distance in the smartphone race, with 52% of the market between them in the last quarter of 2012, the rest are scrapping for third place.
He criticised Mr Gove for scrapping the Building Schools for the Future programme, which rebuilt schools in need of refurbishment, and accused him of favouring free schools and academies over others schools.
But many of these are relatively uncontroversial quick wins, such as scrapping plans for ID cards.
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Other proposed savings include closing public toilets, axing tourist information centres, scrapping funding for Christmas lights and withdrawing concessionary travel.
Three months after scrapping plans for debit card fees, banks are trying to find ways to make up the revenue lost from recent regulations.
Marco Biagi, the SNP MSP for Edinburgh Central, said he had serious doubts about the figures for both scrapping the scheme and for completing it.
When the tolls were cut last year the leaders of those authorities met and agreed that scrapping tolls for hospital patients would be a priority for the new board.
Mr Byrne criticised the coalition for scrapping Labour's Future Jobs Fund and called for a tax on bankers' bonuses to fund extra youth jobs.
The UK has proposed scrapping EU funding for the poorer regions of the richer countries.
By scrapping red tape for small players they can become serious challengers and help keep bills down.
Allow for scrapping of old ships and you are looking at a 6.7% increase in the fleet.
When Ronald Reagan finally lowered rates in the 1980s, he did so in exchange for scrapping uneconomical deductions.
The timescale for scrapping the tolls is expected to be set out shortly.
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But the experience of other European countries is that even a restricted scheme for scrapping cars would have a beneficial environmental impact.
But that is an argument for scrapping it, rather than merely tinkering.
There is one strong argument against scrapping indecency regulation for television.
In fairness, Nasdaq did try to bring order to the freewheeling Bulletin Board--and has taken a pratfall, recently scrapping the plan for the so-called Bulletin Board exchange.
Some 40% of the state's Latinos defied their leaders to vote for scrapping bilingual education, a sign that they are not willing to vote purely on ethnic lines.
Mr Boles becomes the most senior of modernisers around the prime minister to endorse the scrapping of benefits for the elderly, as well as proposing a delay in bringing in social care.
More scientific support for scrapping Florida's ban on adoption by homosexuals has recently come from the American Academy of Paediatrics, which in February issued a summary of research into whether parental homosexuality affects children.
The reason for the scrapping of the second day is unclear, though not a good sign.
He is 78, and is a technocrat with little appetite for political scrapping.
Labour's Graham Allen has been collecting signatures for a mass petition calling for the scrapping of the government's Health Bill.
Kent County Council's schools rebuilding programme was among the worst hit by the scrapping of Building Schools for the Future programme.
Kent County Council's schools rebuilding programme was among the worst hit by the scrapping of Building Schools for the Future, with 40 being halted.
The idea, which follows a review of existing teaching standards by Sally Coates, principal of Burlington Danes Academy in London, includes scrapping the current system for assessing experienced teachers.
In the past couple of weeks he has called for the scrapping of the European Union and its replacement by a free-trade block called the Organisation of European States.
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In his Autumn Statement, the chancellor asked pay review bodies to "consider how public sector pay can be made more responsive to local labour markets", which could mean scrapping national pay rates for public sector workers and negotiating them locally.
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