• But McDonald - who tracks how many early votes have been cast and, when possible, by which political party - says that it may be possible to determine the eventual winner by watching hotly-contested swing states.

    BBC: Early voting: Is the election already decided?

  • Professor Paul Whiteley of the University of Sheffield calculates that the 17% by-election swing from Labour to Liberal Democrat would be enough, if repeated in May, for the Liberal Democrats to seize Sheffield.

    ECONOMIST: Local politics

  • This far in, it's obvious what to expect: pickin'-party songs, bar-band basics enlivened by loose, easygoing solos that traverse Western swing and Stardust-era Willie Nelson.

    NPR: Weary but Playful, The Little Willies 'Roll On'

  • McIlroy aims to get back in the swing -- and respond to the gauntlet thrown down by Woods at the Houston Open, where he could return to the No. 1 ranking with victory.

    CNN: McIlroy happy to be chasing Tiger

  • "From the Harlem Renaissance to ... jazz and swing, so much of that was started by African-Americans, " she said.

    CNN: Troubled youth kicking it 'old skool' at San Fran bistro

  • There is the result of the February 27th Wirral South by-election where Labour achieved a swing of 17% on a high turnout of 73%.

    ECONOMIST: Will it be a landslide? | The

  • The Lib Dems won an improbable by-election victory, with a 20% swing putting David Bellotti in the House of Commons.

    BBC: NEWS | VOTE 2001 | RESULTS & CONSTITUENCIES | Eastbourne

  • By mid-summer, demand destruction was in full swing, with shifts to public transportation, carpooling, and telecommuting.

    FORBES: What $4 Gas Would Mean for Consumer Spending

  • Like many things driven by human nature, venture-backed biotech boardrooms often swing between the emotions of fear and greed.

    FORBES: The Energetics of Fear and Greed in the Boardroom

  • Taking the Buttrills council ward in Barry in a by-election from Labour with a 12 per cent swing earlier this month has given them some heart that they're on the right track.

    BBC: State of Play 2 - Plaid Cymru

  • When Bell and Prior brought up their 100 partnership from the first ball of the 16th over, England were cruising, but they got an unwelcome jolt from the gentler pace offered by Kallis's swing bowling and Johan Botha's off-spinners.

    BBC: England win seals one-day series

  • Instead Gingrich stunned the pundits by a double-digit spread victory, close to a 30 point swing from January 9.

    FORBES: The Newt Gingrich Swing: For The Fences

  • The more laid-back of the two lodges, aptly named Safari Lodge, consists of thatched-roof cottages nestled down in the African landscape, some accessed only by swing bridges.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Kerry, who followed his victory in Iowa with a win by 13 percentage points in New Hampshire, kicked off a seven-day swing through the states Wednesday with a rally in St.

    CNN: Dean shakes up campaign staff

  • By the first decade of the twenty-first century, I could no longer swing a golf club.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Healing Of America'

  • In Uxbridge, however, the by-election followed the death of a popular Tory, and there was a swing to the Conservatives of 5%.

    ECONOMIST: Politics

  • Summer job-hunting season is in full swing on college campuses and last week one of my students came by looking for career advice.

    FORBES: Don't Be Ashamed College Students, Profit Is Not A Dirty Word

  • Most fans were quick to defend the fact Britney chose to lip-synch through the rest of the show, won over by her acrobatics - which included using two men suspended from the ceiling as a swing - while blindfolded.

    BBC: Newsbeat - Entertainment - Britney's Circus gets the thumbs up

  • Warren White of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues were the first to find that sea-surface temperatures across the globe swing up and down in a 10-to 12-year period that lags behind the solar cycle by two to three years.

    ECONOMIST: The earth��s climate

  • The film is being directed by Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote) and stars Ashton Kutcher as the turtleneck and jean-clad tech visionary.

    FORBES: On Location: Steve Jobs, The Movie, Comes To Town

  • The Labour candidate said his party had been "re-invigorated" by the campaign, and UKIP leader Nigel Farage predicted a "big" swing to his party.

    BBC: Eastleigh by-election campaign in final stages

  • Finally, while in 2008 women dominated the electorate by 8-points (54-46), they were a much smaller share of swing voters than many pundits would have you believe.

    FORBES: With the War On Women, Is There Any "There" There?

  • The rule broken (13-2) states that "a player shall not improve the area of his intended stance or swing by any of the following actions: moving, bending or breaking anything growing or fixed".

    BBC: Clarke has revenge on Sutton

  • Offering a Blu-ray media player with its console at a time when the HD format war was in full swing was a pretty gutsy move on Sony's part -- one that paid off as HD DVD fell by the wayside.

    CNN: What should I get for my family's PS3?

  • Analysis of local by-elections by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher of Plymouth University suggests that there has been a 10% swing from Labour to Tory in the South and Midlands.

    ECONOMIST: How to see through the spin

  • With his Omega partner Steven Einhorn and fellow-billionaire Ken Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot, he has drafted a second open letter, which he hopes will be co-signed by a large group of self-made billionaires, and published as a newspaper advertisement in some swing states.

    NEWYORKER: Super-Rich Irony

  • One fast-growing grassroots organisation is Working America, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO which links union members and non-union workers to campaign for better jobs, higher standards in education and, above all, health-care reform. (Any progress on this front under the Obama administration will be claimed as a success by both AFL-CIO and the breakaway coalition led by Mr Stern.) Moreover, grassroots union activism in several swing states helped Mr Obama to victory.

    ECONOMIST: Unions

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