[Ads-l] modified proverb

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Wed Apr 25 02:37:56 UTC 2018


1. "*Cannot GET
/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/republicans-favored-in-az-special-election-but-no-by-much.html*
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2. What proverb originally? What modification?

(Question) Mark



On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 9:24 AM James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
wrote:

>
> http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/republicans-favored-in-az-special-election-but-no-by-much.html
>
> undated article on the New York Magazine web site
>
> Headline: "For Democrats, Close Counts in Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and
> Arizona’s 8th District"
>
> The article is discussing today's special election for Congress in
> Arizona's 8th District.  The point the article is making is "If [Republican
> candidate] Debbie Lesko wins by double digits in Arizona’s Eighth,
> Republicans will have reason to feel pretty good about it. Anything less
> than that could be another bad sign for the midterms."
>
> - Jim Landau
>
> ________________________________________________________
>

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