And ten years later, in two thousand eight, he was one of the first top Democrats to support a young senator seeking the party's nomination for president.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

That would be on top of the additional 17,000 American combat and support troops the president wants to send to Afghanistan over the coming months.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

It qualified for the top level of support in 2000-06, under Objective 1 funding, and again in 2007-13, under convergence funding.

BBC: Rhondda

On top of that, support for all the candidates is soft: Just 44 percent of GOP likely voters said they "strongly support" their choice.

CNN: GOP race still wide open in South Carolina

And then layer on top of that tremendous amounts of design support services.

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