The jokes subsided as time began running out.
Mr. Franks, meanwhile, for the first time began running his own television commercials in the New York City media market.
Time began running out on Vice President Al Gore a week ago, when Florida certified a victory by his opponent, Gov. George W. Bush, with a ceremonial flourish.
In it, Sinclair described how, immediately after the Democratic Convention, the Los Angeles Times began running on its front page a box with an Upton Sinclair quotation in it, a practice that the paper continued, every day, for six weeks, until the opening of the polls.
It was a settled matter from the time Obama began running for office.
By the time Mr. Obama began running for the United States Senate, he "didn't have to run as a black candidate," said Don Rose, a longtime political consultant in Chicago.
For the first time ever, we began running large peacetime budget deficits; and for the first time ever we began running large trade deficits.
At about the time that Jason began running boats, several other fishermen, some of them former employees of Tom's, set up rival operations.
"The sharp downturn in support for the extraction and use of shale gas in the UK over the last 12 months is hugely significant, as is the fact that for the first time since we began running the survey in March 2012 more people are against shale gas extraction than in favour," said Prof Sarah O'Hara at the university's school of geography.
At about the same time, the Clinton campaign began running a radio commercial about Mr. Obama, which replayed Mr. Obama's words from a recent interview with The Reno Gazette-Journal: "The Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10 , 15years".
Around the same time, Europeans and Americans began running whaling expeditions from here.
