Given that the Supreme Court nomination process already favors a president, the White House use of "baseball" may be the key to getting Sotomayor around the Congressional bases and into the biggest, big league, nine-player starting lineup in the land.
Obama is now short on time to make a nomination, given that the Senate often takes a few months for confirmation.
Yet Mr. Romney, for all of his momentum, may be unable to swiftly lock down the nomination, given that he needs to win 1,144 delegates; even after Saturday he had yet to get one-tenth of the way there.
Selma is an acclaimed film not without controversy, but this should not have disqualified DuVernay for the Best Director nomination given that the film has been recognized as a Best Picture nominee coupled with excellent reviews.
This is particularly striking given that the criteria for peer nominations asked about researchers' ability to influence policy and practice, and did not explicitly mention scientific impact.
Given that Romney secured the nomination in May, at least one Democratic media buyer thought it was curious that he had not made large, long-term ad purchases in must-win states like Ohio and Florida.
And third is that Republicans going nuclear could backfire more than Reid's did, given the stakes of a Supreme Court nomination and given that Republicans decried Reid's resorting to the nuclear option.
Close Read would have given the nomination to "Invictus," but one should consider how each did within its form.
Of course, a brokered convention would also introduce the possibility of a new candidate, like Jeb Bush or Paul Ryan, being given the nomination.
He was given the nomination without opposition at the party's national convention in Indianapolis.
There was an interesting market run like this in 2004, and that prediction market actually said that if the Democrats gave the nomination to Howard Dean, they would almost certainly lose the general election.
