He had been reading up about the process, as complex and quirky as any in the country because of its topsy-turvy mixture of traditional primary procedures, headline-grabbing beauty contests and follow-up caucuses.
It uses increases in the primary and secondary headline measures of pupil achievement after a free school is announced or opened as the metrics for comparison.
"As far as I can tell, all they have done is adjust the headline primary surplus targets for the weakness in the economy that is already there, and they have done no more than that," Doyle said.
The conservative Washington Times, meanwhile, has been sounding this theme since the start of primary season, with headlines like "Donald Trump Drives GOP's Record Turnout; Democrats Lack Enthusiasm".
While it is the financial vortex of the acute sector which grabs the headlines, primary care is itself under immense pressure; at the extremes there are frightening stories about the toll that GP workloads are taking on some doctors' mental health.
Last week, the day before the twentieth and probably final televised debate of the Republican Presidential primary season, the banner headline on the Drudge Report, a heavily trafficked conservative (and currently pro-Romney) online news aggregator, was SANTORUM'S SATAN WARNING.
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The candidates competing in the GOP primary for governor made headlines recently after an entertaining hour-long debate.
