People who can't agree on anything political find common ground on one point: undecided voters are vapid, disengaged and a little bit frightening.
But even as they have competed with the Republicans to unleash sleazy lawyers and sleazier rabble-rousers on a state more accustomed to welcoming pensioners and holidaymakers, they have clung to the higher ground on one point: that they merely wanted "the will of the people" to prevail.
Some opponents in the 78-kilogram class Harrison threw to the ground; others she beat on points when the clock expired.
On February 17th, two San Francisco judges rejected separate attempts to stop the weddings, largely on procedural grounds (one pointed out that the plaintiffs had wrongly used a semi-colon rather than a conjunction).
The reason for the attention to qualifying was twofold: the pole-sitter gets the best pit stall on the track's narrow pit road, at the front with nothing to obstruct the exit, and Hamlin wants to gain ground on the points leader, Jimmie Johnson, this weekend.
Much excitement at the ground on this point.
"The Haqqani network is as big a threat to Pakistan as it is to Afghanistan and to us, but we haven't been able to find common ground on that point," he said.
Rasor's willingness to speak would also seem to increase pressure on Republicans to subpoena Judge to testify, though there's no indication that they will give ground on that point.
In a second television appearance, on "Late Edition" on CNN, Mr. Hadley gave no ground on another point of dispute: whether to share with terrorism suspects classified information that is used against them.
The government has signalled it is prepared to give ground on this point, and would likely win a parliamentary majority for a further cut in licence fees, pleasing both Nine, and the Seven Network boss, Kerry Stokes.
