Pollsters have much less experience in cobbling together local than national representative samples, and yet Lib Dems pinned huge hopes not just on this data, but also on a particular second question about votes within it that wrongly convinced them that local factors could allow them to buck the national tide.
But both are vigorously asserting their claims to the presidency and cobbling together possible coalitions in the new Parliament.
In the line of fire Turbine time The Big Apple gets poorer Learning their lesson Requiem for a queen Cobbling together a dream ticket ReprintsThe effort to renew the exemption ran into a sandbar in the shape of James Oberstar, a Democratic congressman from Minnesota, who blocked passage of a tenth exemption by the House's Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which he chairs.
While never burdening himself with attention to details, he has delivered a limited agenda by cobbling together bipartisan alliances, and often by the sheer force of his personality.
But instead of cobbling a terabyte of data together in the laboratory from millions of meaningless megabyte files, the Microsoft researchers sensibly went looking for a terabyte of real data that would be interesting to people all over the world and easily understood by someone of any age, education and language.
Another popular ruse on the right is to attempt to amend state constitutions to define "personhood" as beginning at conception, thereby making abortion, as well as some types of contraception, tantamount to murder.The Democrats, cobbling such episodes together, claim the Republican party has declared a "war on women".
Yet Mr Pipes claims sole authorship.In two further cases Mr Pipes concocted a similarity by cobbling words together from different sentences (and in one he wrongly claimed that I had failed to acknowledge him).
The more hare-brained schemes involved cobbling together floating platforms.
It took power in December 2008 by cobbling together a parliamentary majority.
That didn't get him to the nomination, of course, but it did get him to a national platform and, perhaps, a national future.There's no question that campaigns want more money and over the past few elections Democrats have attempted to counter the traditional Republican fundraising advantage by cobbling together their millions with contributions from small donors.
The doctors in Mexicali say a dose of crystal meth costs as little as 20 pesos ($2.20), and a shot of heroin 50 pesos.Despite all this, most of the people who come to the colonias, enduring the two-hour bus rides to work and cobbling together a dwelling out of spare and stolen materials, will say that they are better off than where they came from.
