| The Curse of Zog?
Won't Get Fooled Again? Zogby's poll right before the New Hampshire primary showed Obama with a 13 point lead. ... Zogby's poll for Saturday's South Carolina primary shows Obama with a 13 point lead. And falling. I'm just sayin' ... P.S.: Remember, a "Bradley effect" is possible among black voters as well as white voters. ... Update--Would you lie to a robot? I would! Mark Blumenthal analyzes the diverging (but not all that much) S.C. polls, including the Clemson poll with its huge (36%) undecided result. He's skeptical of a Bradley Effect, noting that if voters lie to polltakers when they say they're going to vote for the black candidate, you 'd expect them to tell the truth to automated polls: If the Bradley/Wilder effect is operating, we would expect to see it on surveys that use live interviewers, but in this case, the lack of an interviewer seems to work in Obama's favor.
B-list of blackouts
You probably already know about Spring Break, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving. That is, you know enough not to travel around those days. Scoring a frequent flier award ticket is pretty much impossible, hotels aren't discounting their rooms, and you'll probably pay full price for your rental car. Plus, it's usually a tragic mess out there — long lines at the airport, dense traffic and frayed tempers. But this isn't another story about blackout dates. .
Scott Carson seeks chance again as nightmare starts to fade
We were back in the hotel. I looked out of the window and it was absolutely pouring with rain. I thought, ‘Great, Sod’s law.’ " So about the goal? "Coming off the Austria game, I was full of confidence," Carson said. "Maybe too much, I really don’t know. People said it was nerves, but I didn’t really feel that way. "I can’t remember the last time something like that happened to me. It wasn’t easy putting it out of my mind after a big night at Wembley with all my family in the stand, but there’s been nothing like it since." The response of the man affectionately nicknamed Trigger by his England teammates after the dopey character in Only Fools and Horses, the BBC sitcom, has been hard graft on the training ground. Carson is not a convert to sports psychology.
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