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‘A contest can be presidential.’

[⟨det contest.n⟩ presidential.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

As the calendar turns to the fall, the odds increase that the solar tax extension could become hostage to the presidential contest.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

ABC News talked to Mountain State residents earlier in the week to ask them their views on the presidential contest, and also offers video.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

That means trying to exploit the most volatile political issue in this year’s presidential contest, hoping it will help your candidate and hurt the other guy.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In an attempt to insert himself into the current presidential contest, Moore has released a book called “Mike’s Election Guide 2008.”
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In Wikipedia:

In essence, he and his fellow commanders had two options: to call new elections, or to reconvene the 1980 Congress and respect the results of that year’s presidential contest.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Described (accurately) as hip – hop royalty, and he was here in Lotta Rock to drop some science about the state of the music industry, race, the presidential contest, college students, Flava, and’ bout a million other things that crossed his mind.?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Senator McCain has taken a modest lead over Senator Obama entering the final seven weeks of their presidential contest, buoyed by decisive advantages among suburban and working – class whites and a huge edge in how people rate each candidate’s experience, a poll showed today.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It was a bipartisan stunt meant to construct a protected space for the congressional negotiations, where they could proceed without relative freedom from the presidential contest.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Republican John McCain has nearly erased Democrat Barack Obama’s national lead and turned the presidential contest into a dead heat, according to the latest NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A case study of the 2004 US Presidential election by researchers at Yale shows that prediction markets are proving to be a strong forecasting tool, one that may have an impact in calling the current presidential contest between Democrat Senator Barack Obama and Republican Senator John McCain, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A sudden surge in advertising by outside groups is rapidly filling the airwaves and cable channels with unflattering portrayals of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain as their presidential contest enters its final seven weeks.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

J ohn McCain’s fresh momentum is changing the contours of the presidential contest and making a close finish more likely than ever.
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In the British National Corpus:

Its founding members were drawn heavily from former members and supporters of the DLP, and there was speculation that its intervention in the presidential contest was likely to damage further the chances of Kim Young Sam securing victory.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Posted August 1, 2008 8:15 AM by Mark Silva With further evidence here that it’s the economy, stupid, that could play a deciding role in the presidential contest, the Pew Research Center has collected some unsettling findings about the mood of the American public: 38 percent of those surveyed say affording the cost of food is becoming a problem. 55 percent say real estate values have slipped. 73 percent say good jobs are scarce locally. 87 percent say who is elected president matters to the economy. – MORE – -
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

For all Barack Obama’s remarkable fundraising and sizable surplus, the Democratic presidential nominee entered the final two months of the presidential contest on virtually equal financial footing as Republican rival John McCain.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

What a shame he did not live to see this year’s extraordinary presidential contest play out to its finish.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The short – lived bounce of Barack Obama’s European tour is gone, and the presidential contest between Obama and John McCain has settled back down to a dead – heat, in the measure of the daily tracking surveys of the Gallup Poll.
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In the British National Corpus:

The government consistently denied rumours of an early poll, claiming that no parliamentary elections would be held before the presidential contest due in April 1991, although local elections at sub-district level were expected to go ahead in May 1990, after the success of similar elections in the Chittagong Hill Tracts on June 25, 1989 (see p. 36736).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The wonder of the 2008 presidential contest between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain is that it is still a contest at all.
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Queried on 2013-05-20.