In Preston in the 1837 general election Crawfurd had the Liberal nomination in a three-cornered fight for two seats, as Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood was regarded as a waverer by the Conservatives who ran Robert Townley Parker against him; but he polled third.
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George W . Bush and Al Gore have been neck and neck in the polls for months, and their autumn campaigns have been directed almost exclusively at that middle ground populated by waverers, a la carte political shoppers and, yes, undecideds and don't knows.
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Ashcroft provided any waverers modest cover when on Tuesday he ticked his way down the checklist of things-to-do as nation's chief enforcer of laws, beginning with vigorous enforcement of laws despite personal beliefs, including protecting women's unhindered access to abortion clinics.
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While few of the nine New York waverers could fairly be called " liberal, " all of them hold moderate views compared with the Republicans who dominate Congress today _ and they have voted against the party leadership, and with Clinton, on a number of high-profile issues.
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The way this issue has been treated has been a laughable display of panic and witchhunting over common sense and just cause, and I sincerely doubt anyone's actions here has actually deterred anyone who wants to conduct this covert campaign, and has probably tipped the waverers into their arms aswell.
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Catch the punditocracy in an unguarded moment and you will hear them referring to the waverers ( known officially as " the swing vote " ) as morons, or ingrates who deserve to be herded into football stadiums and bombarded with political speeches until they cave in and make up their minds.
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Richard C . Holbrooke, the U . S . representative, who arranged Helms'appearance in New York in January, is expected to do his utmost to persuade wavering diplomats to accept the invitation to Washington in the interests of what one waverer acknowledged Friday could be " a useful exchange of views ."
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Absent a direct line to the Almighty and a conviction that the last days are upon us, how is it'moral'[ . . . ] to claim a monopoly on access to heaven, or to threaten waverers with everlasting fire, let alone to condemn fig trees and persuade devils to infest the bodies of pigs?
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The word in Washington is that over this weekend the White House and Trent Lott, the Republican leader, are furiously pummeling the GOP waverers with a mixture of threats and promises to increase budget spending in the senators'favored areas _ such as education for Jeffords _ all in order to give the president a signature victory this week.
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"This is where we have to take a stand, " said Nader, the Green Party nominee, and then added to thunderous applause, " This is where we have to say to the naysayers, to the wafflers, to the waverers _ don't go for the lesser of two evils, because at the end of the day, you end up with evil ."
