Some well-loved Labour MPs may be able to resist the blue tide because of their personal popularity. Gordon Brown is indeed very unpopular, but David Cameron is not as loved as the Tories hope and maybe think. As ever, lots of punters have scarcely tuned in yet to the policy debates with which Westminster is already exhausted.
As the mayor himself admitted, there is nothing besides mild inconvenience preventing people from drinking just as much soda as ever; maybe that inconvenience will work and maybe it won't.
He is not only good -- maybe as good as anyone ever -- he is also blessed.
Barnes's arrangements are as eye-opening, intoxicating and, at times, maddening as ever, maybe more so.
"The technology sector is as popular as ever, maybe not as crazy as it was back in the dot-com 1998-2000 time frame, but technology firms are pretty popular this time around," said Paul Larson, chief equities strategist for Morningstar.
QUESTION FROM H. B. WARD: Your article created an impression of South Africa as a country with deep emotional wounds that are as raw as ever, maybe worse.
So 21st-century man and woman are just as tongue-tied and bashful and troubled as ever; maybe we haven't made all that much progress after all.
"I watch as much as ever, maybe more, but it's not the same, because now I watch on DVD and I don't like that.
The pendant contains a suicide pill, maybe; "The Americans," menacing as ever in its reserve, won't spell out whether it's a charmed totem or a cursed amulet.
DUALIT TOASTER While cereal has supplanted bacon and eggs at the breakfast table, toasters are as indispensable as ever — maybe more so now that Wonder Bread has so much competition from bagels.
