On immigration, by the way, both candidates missed a chance to explain why the Republicans have been demagoguing the issue so energetically: it gives them somebody besides Bush, and themselves, to blame for the economic distress of the less affluent.
He had fought energetically on issues such as housing and transport, and felt, with good reason, that he had outsmarted Goldsmith by depicting the Conservative campaign as racially divisive and unpleasantly negative.
"That has a lot to do with courtesy and deference toward another senator who has made something a 'signature issue' … If an issue is being vocally and energetically addressed by a colleague, senators tend to move on to other issues where that is not true," said Steven Rickard of the Open Society Foundation.
Her Birmingham Edgbaston seat should have gone Tory in 2010, but she held it by campaigning energetically on local issues and by being conspicuously independent-minded.
Creasy has been campaigning energetically on the issue for more than two years, and has played a part in forcing the Office of Fair Trading to demand reforms from the industry.
Leaders of other countries in the region convened a hasty conference in Buenos Aires where they issued a resolution, saying they "energetically condemn the attempted coup and subsequent kidnapping".
On Friday, South American heads of state held an emergency meeting in Argentina and issued a resolution saying they "energetically condemn the attempted coup and subsequent kidnapping" of President Correa.
As the teachers attending energetically discussed the issue, across the floor was a scroll of 2000+ names of meditation students who had signed a request for teachings and guidance on wise response to Climate Change.
Still, he and his writers have energetically tackled the big issues of the day — "the stuff we find most interesting," as he said in an interview at the show's Midtown Manhattan offices, the stuff that gives them the most "agita," the sometimes somber stories he refers to as his "morning cup of sadness".
To have a chance to succeed, those who care about issues must put them forward strategically, energetically, and persistently.
