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WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT SARAH PALIN?!?!?! continuing to bring up Sarah Palin is absurd and a complete waste of time. we have much bigger issues to concern ourselves with instead of continuing to mention an irrelavant non-contender.
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Nuclear power has so many problems with disposal as to be a non-contender.
Do as we say, not as we do: gasoline edition « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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The “independent run” question was a nasty curveball, trying to portray him as a non-contender.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Election Central Debate Roundup 2009
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The “independent run” question was a nasty curveball, trying to portray him as a non-contender.
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The argument typically centers on the merits of a player guiding his team to the playoffs against one with outstanding numbers playing for a non-contender, but the criteria employed by the voters — members of the Baseball Writers 'Association of America — are not exactly clear.
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Even the race in IL was against a hard-to-find non-contender.
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I don't expect MD to be in play anyway, so I may vote for a non-contender.
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By 1964, Jaguar was a non-contender and would not win the race again until 1988.
Menacing Machine 2006
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We're going to ask somebody who -- a famous non-contender, non-runner for the presidency.
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Little progress, non-contender should have more to draw upon.
USATODAY.com 2002
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