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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Many of the presidential primaries take place over the winter. Aside from that, this doesn’t make much sense. Examples:
Huck’s strength in the Southern states, also with large delegations, is less significant because so many such states are not winter take all.
therealsporer.blogspot.com/2008/02/mac-huck-friendly-ghost-of-rudy-team.html
Unfortunately the system most of us stuck in is a winter take all system. Those who are the most aggressive often get rewarded with luxury and power which …
answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080505123101AAIZxzp – 60k –
Damascus had lost to McLean, which is located near Washington, DC, 503 on Wednesday forcing a winter-take-all game on Thursday. Damascus delivered. ...
www.damascus.org/champs.html
winter-take-all rule is intrinsically democratic,...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0962629896900530
Montana Republican caucus, a winter-take-all event worth 25 delegates to presidential candidates.
www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/0 … -burns.txt
They noted that network externalities and winter-take-all markets “may remove the automatic preference for private rather than public productionâ€
www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/misc/Nils … 7%20final%
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The consummate rapacity of winter (“winter takes all”) may be in view.
Perhaps Massachusetts has mild winters…
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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A lot of American speakers don’t really pronounce the “t” in winter (“all winner long”). But why they would assume the expression referred to the season is beyond me, since they are using the expression in the right context, i.e. a competitive situation.
Were there winter-take-all references that were not primary related?
Feeling quite combobulated.
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