The Bush campaign is also buoyed by a common wisdom that voters who decide late in a race usually break against the party in the White House.
However it happens, Spanish players seem to be exposed (and accept) a common wisdom, whereas American players may feel pressure to be the next Sampras or the next Agassi, without accumulating collective discipline.
"In this space there's a common wisdom that the constraint is money - that people aren't willing to pay for green infrastructure," Bennett explained.
By September, a bleak common wisdom had taken hold among Democratic Party pros: the established candidates were struggling, and an outsider, Howard Dean, seemed destined to win the nomination but would be a weak opponent for George W. Bush.
There's a sort of common wisdom that closed headphones provide better sound, and while they do provide better isolation, the sound can still vary considerably.
Just a few years ago the common wisdom was that to become a huge hit, a tent-pole game had to be released in the fall.
While that's not a hard and fast rule, and certainly things like the state of the economy and the job market play a huge role, the common wisdom is that, being unable to control the mortgage rate, if a seller wants to keep the house affordable to the largest pool of potential buyers, they lower the price so that buyers have "less to mortgage".
So, according to common wisdom, A would make more unfair offers if she were high on testosterone.
I've been a lifelong Labour supporter - even when at a public school where the common wisdom was that Margaret Thatcher could do no wrong, Nelson Mandela was a terrorist and Kinnock's Labour was equivalent to Stalin's Communists around the time of the Great Purge.
It appeared that Congress had acted before a conundrum turned into a full-blown crisis, as common wisdom holds is the standard pattern in modern American legislative politics.
Instead, the hitters made light of common wisdom for a night, while subverting low expectations for a second straight game.
