Yet most polls showed him in a statistical dead-heat with Mr Obama going into their two conventions.
The men's race saw Simon Kisamili also clinch an easy victory in 64.15 - but there was a dead-heat behind the Kenyan winner.
"We thought the horse was beaten when we saw a re-run and we would have settled for a dead-heat, " said Sheehy, who was celebrating his first Grade One win.
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Polls show the race in the Palmetto State is a statistical dead-heat, and reveal much of Mr McCain's support comes from independents, just as it did in New Hampshire, where independents went for McCain over Bush by 60% to 20%.
After trailing through most of the race, Bloomberg surged into a dead-heat with Green after getting the endorsement of Giuliani, who has gotten rave reviews for his leadership in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Paris topped his only previous World Cup win -- a dead heat tie for first with Hannes Reichelt in Bormio at the end of last year -- with a time of one minute 57.56 seconds.
The Democratic race for the January 3 caucus remains a three-way dead heat between Sens.
They show Clinton in a dead heat with McCain -- both coming in with 46 percent.
The poll showed Giuliani receiving 47 percent of votes in the hypothetical general-election matchup with Clinton, who scored 46 points -- a statistical dead heat given the poll's 2.5 percent margin of error.
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In Missouri, which Bush won in the past two presidential contests, the new poll suggests it's basically a dead heat, with McCain holding a one-point advantage over Obama, 49 percent to 48 percent.
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Mr. Siegel got his first high-profile test during the U.S. track and field trials in late June when Jeneba Tarmoh finished third in the 100-meter sprint but was later declared in a dead heat with Allyson Felix.
While Apple maintained the top spot for the ninth time in a row through US customers' happiness with the hardware design and ease of use, most of its major competitors made big strides in reliability, speed and camera quality in the past half-year -- to the point where there was a virtual dead heat for second place between HTC, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung.
The competition between BMW and Mercedes-Benz for No. 1-selling luxury brand in the United States was nearly a dead heat through November, with the final outcome pending December sales results due Jan. 4.
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In the first wave, Bush had a double-digit lead, but by the final wave of polling, the race had become a dead heat, indicating that the president's momentum had eroded.
So without further hedging I am going to go out on a limb and predict Phillips will win, not because he is better, but because in recent years the Idol voting has skewed pro-male, which I think will give him the slightest edge in what would otherwise be a dead heat.
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