Chess computers can at least rely on a modified version of the same tactic.
(One ugly pamphlet in Missouri, showing a 1960s-era phofo of a fireman turning a hose on a black man, said "This is how they used to keep us from voting", and suggested that the Republicans were trying a subtler form of the same tactic this year).On top of all this, a number of states are hearing legal challenges over "provisional votes".
While working fathers who go away on business may use some of the same tactics, mothers are often the ones laying out their children's skating outfits and freezing extra dinners before they leave town.
Fenty, an incumbent with a $5 million war chest who lost to council Chairman Vincent C. Gray on Tuesday, used many of the same tactics that had won him the mayoralty in 2006, frustrating advisers who thought he needed a more sophisticated campaign.
Mr. Williams is using many of the same tactics that he did on "The Montel Williams Show," which ran for 17 years, produced and syndicated by CBS.
"Obama has no record to run on so he's out on the trail resorting to the same tactics he campaigned against in 2008," Kirsten Kukowski, a spokeswoman for Republican National Committee, said Wednesday night.
If stepping in, throwing a grenade, and stepping back out seems to work for you, then keep on with the same tactics, because the computer opponents are too stupid to know you're doing the same thing over and over.
One such is Microsoft's recently launched Passport service, which identifies users at e-commerce websites.To establish.NET, the firm is apparently counting on the same tactics that it used with Windows.
Oddly enough, the outcome of the midterms will incentivize Trump and the Democrats to rely on the same tactics to distinguish themselves: greater acrimony, more extreme positions and continued efforts to define themselves in stark terms.
If you make a bunch of sculptures about a popular product that is also a big cultural fad and make sculptures of people that appear to be moving around then you're relying on the same tactics as a Macy's window display but probably not doing it as well.
