And in an election cycle where billions of dollars were spent on attack ads -- far more than ever before -- that kind of old-school retail politicking may have made the difference.
Americans voting for "change" should know they may get far more than they ever imagined.
Without question, seniors are far more connected than ever and have yet to make up their minds.
In simplest terms, people have moved from being CONsumers to PROsumers with far more influence than ever before.
Tribal elders insist that they are seeing far more bears than ever before.
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The Buddha observed two and a half thousand years ago that the only constant is change, and that is far more true than ever today.
That would be the largest reduction in government spending in world history far more than could ever be achieved by trying to cut Social Security benefits.
For all its foot-dragging over domestic reform, Japan has done, and will be doing in future, far more than China ever could to keep its troubled neighbours afloat.
With this new assistive technology, sighted teachers, classmates and parents can also work alongside students, providing a new level of learning support and making the inclusion of students who are blind into mainstream classrooms far more possible than ever before.
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Mr Obama has raised money from close to 1.5m individuals, far more than anybody else ever has.
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Authors can use Google AdWords or social networking strategies to market their books far more effectively than publishers ever could.
In this new era, now beginning, our relationships with our technology will become far more personal than has ever been the case.
We now have far more precise data than ever before, and the ability to drill down as many as 1200 characteristics of product purchasers.
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There are two ways that IT will have to improve: IT will have to start monitoring applications far more closely than they ever had before.
The burgeoning field of neuroplasticity, however, has completely overturned this notion and shown us that our brains are far more flexible than we ever dared to imagine.
That said, Mr. Fehr showed his mettle as a tough negotiator in that the players ended up retaining far more perks than I ever believed they would.
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She said it was a commitment and process far more difficult than she ever expected, and she's conflicted on whether she would do it again if she has another child.
This is the exact wrong time in history to fret about the imminent death of reading eReaders have the power to transform books into far richer, far more interactive experiences than ever before.
One ultra-glossy phone plus a dozen or so overly ornate chandeliers is a recipe for video disaster, and indeed, we managed to capture the beautiful outline of said chandeliers in far more detail than we ever intended here.
It is funny, but the people in life who are primarily motivated by money or security often end up losing whatever they gain, whereas those who follow their passion end up making far more money than they ever desired.
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Traditional oil production and distillation are far more efficient than they have ever been.
What has changed is, we have far more data available now than ever before, and with it ever-improving analysis.
The traditionalists retort that Mr Gore not only won the popular vote by 500, 000: he won far more votes than Mr Clinton ever did.
Daschle is proposing far more bipartisanship than Lott will ever swallow.
The police and the prosecutors remain a tool of the Kremlin, it is simply that Mr Putin uses them far more effectively than Boris Yeltsin ever did.
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American capitalism has already produced far more comprehensive cloning than chemistry could ever hope to achieve.
As a piece of psychology a clue to what makes Holmes tick this is highly acute, but it is far more than Conan Doyle would have ever allowed himself.
Contrary to her detractors' caricature, she is not claiming that marriage is a now-or-never proposition for Princeton women, only that now is far more opportune than later is likely ever to be.
So I reached out to my friend John DeGroote of Settlement Perspectives, a former in-house counsel and Chief Legal Officer who knew far more about corporate interests than I ever would.
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