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You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

Every game in this league is close, and it's going to come down to making plays at the end.

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

It's Twenty20, anything can happen in the format. It's very difficult to predict and pick a favourite team in this format.

I play better if the matches are tight.

I mean, that's playoff hockey. You're not going to dominate every game, you're not going to score every goal.

T20 is an unpredictable format, so you cannot rule out any team's chances.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.