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To that end, Slate offers a real Election Day forecast, predicting the outcomes of close Senate and gubernatorial races based on the Tuesday weather map in Monday's USA Today . (Why USA Today ? It does not suffer from the notorious liberal meteorological bias that afflicts the New York Times and the Washington Post .) In the interest of accuracy, Slate has updated the predictions based on USA Today 's Tuesday forecast.
If I were he, I think I'd respond by saying that excessive prosperity is now a problem for just a few--and that the next president should see to it that it afflicts as many of us as possible.
It's true that El Niño afflicts the West and Gulf Coasts with nasty winters, and that it decimates the salmon population.
Although it has nothing to do with subjunctives, I cannot resist the temptation to reproduce the following sentence from an article by Sir Roy Strong, presumed aesthete and literatus, yet evidently victim of the universal virus that afflicts many users of English when they scent the proximity of like :
But the winner's curse afflicts auction bidders whenever there is uncertainty over the current or eventual value of the item on the block.