No store would risk confusing its customers by changing its layout daily simply to flummox Jango.

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He kept the party quiet during four months of student demonstrations against rises in tuition fees in Quebec a silence that seemed to flummox the Conservative attack machine.

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And the other effect she's had is to flummox the famously unflappable Obama campaign, who has been unsure of how to deal with her and has tried a whole bunch of different approaches - some of them have been more successful than others.

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