And it is Obama, who sashayed onto the trail two years ago as an aloof and exotic mystery man with a slim record and a strange name, now coming across as the steadier brand.
So John F. Kennedy, in spite of his narrow margin of victory and slim record of accomplishment, continues to symbolize the glamour and promise of the early 1960s, much as he did at the time, even before his death gave this association a tragic and permanent stamp.
Slim Dusty recorded his first record, the patriotic "Song for the Aussies" (with "My Final Song" on the B-side), in 1942 and signed his first recording contract in 1946.
One Democratic Congressional candidate, Dan Roberti, is spending heavily to overcome a very slim public record.
Although she has a slim political record, Fiorina is seeking to cast herself as a self-made woman who is pragmatic but equally capable of lighting up the base with fiery speeches touting her conservative credentials.
And for those who believe government-funded research will fill the gap, our own National Institutes has a comparatively slim track record to the private sector, given the enormous sums it, too, has spent.
To the contrary, his campaign highlighted such activism in order to bolster an otherwise slim political record.
As Gerety notes, Kagan structured this type of environment at Harvard Law, where she ascended to the post of dean despite a slim written record and then proceeded to remove the school from partisan paralysis.
Usually my books are like those Slim Whitman records you see on TV—"not available in any store".
Slim Dusty recorded more than 100 albums, including Slim Dusty Sings (1960), Australian Bush Ballads and Other Old-Time Songs (1965), Beer Drinking Songs of Australia (1986), and G'Day, G'Day (1989).
It included her own takes on Will You Love Me Tomorrow and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, and two co-writes with Toni Stern – It's Too Late and Where You Lead, as well as the track You've Got a Friend, which would also be recorded by James Taylor on his Mud Slide Slim album – a record that in mood can be seen as a companion piece to Tapestry.
