In the three weeks to the end of September, just 8% of the ads in the presidential race were devoted to praising a candidate, rather than denigrating him.Since the start of the campaign, Mr Obama and his supporters have warned that big-spending right-wing groups were about to release a torrent of ads that would skew the race in Mr Romney's favour.
Thanks to paulburns for pointing us towards this New Yorker piece (and good luck to him with Churchyard Clay!) James Baldwin & the Fear of a Nation: "Today, like sixty years ago, much of the public rhetoric about race is devoted to explaining to an incurious white public, in rudimentary terms, the contours of institutional racism".
After meeting with candidates across the city, Mr. Emanuel picked favorites in nine runoff races and devoted resources to campaigns through his New Chicago Committee.
In treating race, he devotes considerable energy to upbraiding a wealthy and paranoid black entrepreneur who sees racist conspiracies everywhere.
In growing numbers, people peel away from their private rat race to devote energy to collective goals.
Several days later, Parker's father, who was running for a position on the Henry County Board of Supervisors, withdrew from that race to devote himself to gun control.
Pakistan, whose economy and domestic cohesion are steadily worsening, is the hare, racing to devote scarce resources to compete with a country whose economy is nine times as great.
A landlord of low-income tenants of all races, he devotes as much of his energy to attacking rival leaders he hopes to purge from the supremacist leadership as he does attacking Jews and blacks.
There are thousands of people in racing who devote their lives to training and caring for horses, and they are the ones who will feel the loss most keenly.
With royal support, horse racing became popular with the public, and by 1727, a newspaper devoted to racing, the Racing Calendar, was founded.
