Now more of them may realise what a mess their state is in.
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But it has amply showed what a mess it makes of politics, and should stay firmly in its barracks now.
What a mess for a once-legendary political machine to find itself in.
On Nov. 7, liberal talk show host Randi Rhodes kicked off her 3:00 PM show, griping about what a mess she had seen at the polls.
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Burroughs turned up at the studio one day to see what sort of a mess it was making of his masterpieces, but was polite to the couple.
What comes out is a mess of data, strings of genetic material where it is not always easy to tell what DNA comes from what microbe.
One of the local campaigners, Elaine Adams, said the operation had caused a "huge unsightly mess on what was a most beautiful area".
It's even more apparent in products in which the calibration is off, resulting in what looks to be a mess of hardened string.
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Whether a lean-to on the side of the house, a garage, a repurposed laundry room or mudroom, an old shed or a new one, a potting room is the same for all gardeners a place of our own, to do what we love, where making a mess is just fine.
If you can say yes to a mess, what can you not do?
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But progress is slow because the politicians who are trying to influence what we discard and what we keep often make a mess of it.
But even as we work tirelessly to dig our way out of this hole, it is important that we address what led us into such a deep mess in the first place.
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Most importantly, I'm sitting at a bar and just ordered what looks to be a monster of a burger called the "Hot Mess" at a place called Park Bar near my hotel.
True, the schools are still a mess, but Mr Bloomberg has achieved what his predecessor could not, operational control, and a deliberate effort has begun to end decades of terrible labour contracts and absurd policies, such as the automatic promotion of unqualified students to higher grades at the end of every year.
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By reviving suspicions of a cosy, protectionist culture in the Italian elite, the affair has damaged the country's reputation as a place in which to do business just what Italy didn't need as it clears up the mess left behind after the spectacular collapse of Parmalat, a family-controlled dairy group.
That is what helped create the mess in the first place: that a country of barely a million people has become an international tax haven with an overgrown banking system.
What the mess in Cyprus shows is that eurozone governments are a million miles from feeling comfortable about using their taxpayers' money to sort out the problems of banks outside of their home countries.
Look at the mess in Japan this month for a glimpse of what can go wrong when managers' feet are removed from the fire.
What that means in practical terms is nothing short of a complicated, confusing mess.
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What I do know is that the billing system in this country is a mess, and messes are usually expensive.
But all this takes time, and the mess is taking the shine off what ought to have been a glorious week for Mr Obama and the Democrats.
Romney and Ryan have their hands free to blast the status quo, focus on the policy errors of the past three and a half years, and explain what they would do to fix the mess we are in.
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Ms. SAMUELS: Well, What About Our Daughters really waged a really big campaign to get "Hot Ghetto Mess" to change its name, "Hot Ghetto Mess" the show on BET.
Then there is the commercial -- I don't even remember what they were pitching -- of two or three kids in the kitchen making a mess after spilling the cereal.
What is needed, says Will, is a coherent and principled way of dealing with this mess.
Unfortunately, each person interviewed recalled seeing the mess but simply elected to use a clean toilet and did not report what they had seen.
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Still, the evidence piles up daily that what Barack Obama is producing with his countrywide "investments" is a blob, a morass, a mess.
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