[Ads-l] WOTY "pivot", v. [and n.] -- going viral

[Jonathan Lighter]

The first time I recall encountering the political sense of "pivot"
was shortly before the premiere of the Sarah Palin docudrama _Game
Change_(2012).  I remember because CNN began using it frequently and
it featured prominently in the film: Palin was described as "pivoting"
or needing to "pivot."

JL

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:
> Google All for "pivot trump".  The infection has spread to the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, Politico, Fox News -- all in headlines.  From them it will infect the (English speaking) world.
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>  From: Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 4:51 PM
> Subject: [ADS-L] QOTY "He's obviously stepped in it" / WOTY "pivot", v.
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> Both from Republican Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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> Donald Trump has two to three weeks to fix his campaign or lose so much Republican support that it would doom his run for the presidency, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker told Yahoo News on Tuesday.
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> “He’s obviously stepped in it. He’s made statements that are inappropriate,” Corker, a Republican from Tennessee, said in a telephone interview. The senator was referring to Trump’s widely condemned declaration that a Mexican-American judge is unfit to preside over a Trump University lawsuit because of the judge’s heritage.
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> “He’s got this defining period that’s over the next two or three weeks where he could pivot, can pivot, hopefully will pivot to a place where he becomes a true general election candidate,” Corker warned.
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> Note the conjugation of mood and tense (I hope I'm using the correct terms).
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