In private she leaned on the two last presidents of white South Africa, PW Botha and FW de Klerk.
Contrast that with 2002, one of the leanest years of the two decades, with only 67 initial public offerings, raising $18 billion.
Pennsylvania, which we moved into the "toss-up" category last week, immediately moves back to "lean Democratic". Of the five polls conducted in the state after the first debate, Clinton had led by four, eight, 12, nine and 10 points; her average lead, according to RealClearPolitics, is now 8.6 points.
Not in this case, because Gravis Marketing polls have had a Republican lean of two or three percentage points this cycle.
He leaned over one of the two eyepieces of his crack Celestron C8 telescope, squinted and uttered a mild but unprintable oath.
Only a fraction of our respondents — those who identified as independents but said they leaned toward one of the two parties — were willing to vote for the "other" party in large enough numbers to defeat an undemocratic candidate of their own party.
You might not wholly subscribe to one or the other, but most people I've met lean towards one of the two camps.
One problem with focusing too closely on self-identified independents is that most "lean" to one of the two main parties and tend to vote reliably for that party.
The estimated lean thigh volumes of the two legs were 9.8 [ 24], 10.4 [ 82], and 12.5 L [ 214] in young adults, which corresponded to values of Pmax related to thigh volume equal to 85, 133, and 66 W·L−1, respectively.
