Mr. Gore needs a big Democratic homecoming, since vice presidents running to keep their parties in power have a hard time attracting crossover voters.
The problem is that the domestic companies were doing so well with their truck-based SUVs that they did not push hard into the crossover market.
But since most SUVs see very little of that duty, Honda, Nissan and Toyota as well as Lexus, Volvo and BMW are all running hard toward the crossover niche.
Though there was a connection among the various "Law & Order" series, the respective dramas had separate and distinctive identities, making it hard to do crossover episodes.
This makes it hard to describe certain crossover phenomena, like the horizons of black holes.
From either vantage point, the word "crossover" was hard to avoid.
Jay-Z slowed down his delivery to match the tempo, and the result was the crossover hit "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)": I'm a be on top, whether I perform or not.
"Dead" also reached a high, with 12.4 million viewers, while "The Bible" at 11.7 million, was slightly below its premiere number, possibly because of the competition, though it may be hard to imagine much crossover viewing among fans of zombies, dragons and apostles.
It is hard to tell one crossover from another.
Also charging hard were two Honda crossovers, the CR-V and the Acura MDX, which together had sales of 35,638.
