But this election season, New Jersey's two most populous counties -- affluent and suburban Bergen and the more middle-class and urbanized Essex -- find their hotly contested county executive races bound by an unlikely common thread: the proposal for a new arena in Newark.
Their leader tells the narrator, "Our forefathers knew that our race was bound to disappear.
His endorsement of Rudolph W. Giuliani in the 2008 presidential race is bound to complicate things.
In a city where a wrenching history of racial segregation, municipal corruption, fiscal instability and failing schools is just beginning to recede, this year's mayoral race is bound to be a momentous one.
Kasich is not a plagiarist (in politics, everyone steals from everyone), but his campaign seems to have appropriated former Florida Governor Jeb Bush's message from last summer, when Bush said that the race was bound to be long and angry but "Here's the deal: I don't have anger in my heart".
He quotes Orlando Figes, to the effect that Nazism "spat in the face of the Enlightenment", whereas the Russian revolution was "an experiment which the human race was bound to make" - and yet did not Stalin's betrayal of that experiment make him "worse" ?
And these polls, don't forget, massage the Labour lead down to compensate for their past tendency to exaggerate it.In this section Working for your welfare Briefly noted Trends of the week Tootsie's revenge Down, not out Paddy ha ha ha Decrepit Labour's hit list The flock instinct ReprintsAs for the theory that the race is bound to tighten, look at the events of the past week.
And, as futurist Sonia Arrison sees it -- this whole 'immortality' race is bound to have some consequences we need to be prepared for.
With control of the Senate at stake, the race is bound to be very tight, with most forecasts giving the GOP around a 65percentt chance of gaining the six seats they need to win a majority.
Race still binds them, she said, just in subtler ways.
