"I've never been one for dogma and don't feel like any 'side' could represent my free will well enough to go straight ticket, " he said.

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Although his base of straight-ticket Republican voters would probably have stayed loyal, many were wavering.

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Peikoff endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2008, John Kerry in 2004 and urged everyone to vote the straight Democratic ticket in the 2006 Congressional elections.

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He finally voted the straight Democratic ticket at about 11 a.m.

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His backcourt mate Peyton Siva, the yin to Smith's yang, added 16 points of his own and keyed the sequence that all but punched Louisville's ticket to its second straight national semifinal.

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In Boston, fans charged with paying the highest ticket prices in the league cram into Fenway Park to the tune of 700 straight sellouts.

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Season ticket sales were capped at 15, 000 this year, and the team will have 120 straight sellouts by season's end.

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