Chatting to Republicans beforehand, there wasn't hysteria about their prospects, but real confidence that things are moving their way - a sea-change from a week before the first presidential debate, when Republicans I talked to were already plotting whom to blame when they lost the election.

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Atomic bombs were perfected and first tested in New Mexico, so the word nuclear probably didn't generate the same hysteria here it did elsewhere.

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Or those who score so infrequently that they can't help but burst into hysteria.

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