Sixty-four percent of voters polled said Mr. McCain, 72, was well-prepared for the presidency, which has been a central theme of his campaign.
In keeping with what has been a central theme of his 2006 candidacy, Mr. Booker said that stopping school violence would be his first priority.
Their conclusions, while familiar to a small core of social sciences scholars, are now catching the attention of a broader audience, in part because income inequality has been a central theme this election season.
The gun-trafficking allegations strike at the heart of one of the New York Police Department's most hard-fought and robust initiatives, and one that has been a central theme of the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg: getting guns off the street of New York City.
Mars has also been a central theme in radio, television, and film, perhaps the most notorious case being Orson Welles's radio-play production of H.G. Wells's novel War of the Worlds, which convinced thousands of unwitting listeners on the evening of Oct. 30, 1938, that beings from Mars were invading Earth.
With local elections in December and a new presidential contest due in 2016, when Mr Ma will have to stand down, the DPP seems to think it has the KMT on the run.Improving relations with China has been a central theme of Mr Ma's presidency since he took office in 2008.
