Bates's credentials as a border-state conservative made him an obvious pick by Lincoln for a cabinet position.
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No-Stir Crunchy Peanut Butter Perhaps an obvious pick, but there are so many practical reasons to have peanut butter on the trail.
There is no question about which is the most obvious pick for the Betfred Mile, the big betting race on day four at Glorious Goodwood.
That would give the Cardinals some tough decisions to make, but if Johnson falls to them here then this becomes an obvious pick.
"Ian seems the obvious pick to me and after last week, Darren the obvious second pick, although Paul may not agree," said Dougherty referring to Clarke's four-stroke win in the Netherlands.
Without an obvious pick like the N.L.'s Bonds, Rodriguez may be a high choice on a lot of ballots and that might be enough to snare the M.V.P. award.
Hence the long odds against New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who might otherwise have been an obvious pick, and the even longer odds against the perpetually underestimated (though not, one assumes, by veterans of Romney's 2008 campaign) Mike Huckabee, who might otherwise have been an interesting dark horse choice.
And while Clinton, with her repeated promises to build on the Obama administration's tenure, might seem like the obvious pick, in more than a dozen interviews many South Carolinians were attracted to the idealism of Sanders, whose message of revolution echoes Obama's rhetoric of hope and change.
The first and most obvious pick is House Majority Eric Cantor (CrunchGov Grade: A).
Clustering rare bits at the tail of the fingerprint makes the corresponding indexes small and provide an obvious pick for the Oracle optimizer.
