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And how can you seriously suggest that Clinton should be considered the take-all winner of a "contest" without contestants?
Full Michigan delegation with half-vote to be seated by Dems 2008
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I welcome the google initiative so long as it works more like maps (an API to which all software vendors and end users can plug in alike) and not as a standalone take-all be-all of medical records.
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None of the DEM caucuses and primaries are winner take-all.
Your Election Central Guide To What's Ahead In Prez Race 2009
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They aren't winner take-all states and my guess is that if Obama bests her in the delegate count (and loses the popular vote or by some stroke of luck wins the popular vote as well), then they will kick the can to the next viable Clinton state.
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It's much more important for the Republican contest right now because Missouri is one of those winner - take-all states.
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It's not winner - take-all in California for the Republicans.
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Though Adams ran as a candidate of the Federalist Party, he did not see the winner take-all system of elections which forced the country into choosing between two patronage-bestowing parties as the best answer as he stated in a 1789 letter:
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It seems that, because the GOP is winner - take-all, in a lot of these states that it would be far more make or break tomorrow for the Mitt Romney's of the world and the John McCain's of the world.
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If the "Rally to Romney" movement takes hold in here, he could edge McCain and take Missouri's 58 delegates in this winner take-all contest.
Patrick Ottenhoff: Super Tuesday Rundown: Northeastern and Midwestern States 2008
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An unbalanced, short sighted, take-all mentality that never takes in to acount the whole wellbeing of a society, and they keep pushing it.
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