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Republican officeholders, the NYT explains, have retired twice as fast as Democrats, fund-raising is below expectations, and to hedge their bets, business groups are uncharacteristically giving soft money equally to Democrats and Republicans.
The COG construction procedure does not rely on any preconceived phylogenetic tree of the included species except that certain obviously related genomes (for example, two species of mycoplasmas or pyrococci) were grouped prior to the analysis, to eliminate strong dependence between BeTs.
Why, then, do the tracks continue to offer bets with much smaller payoffs?
The Washington Post hedges its bets on this, saying that "Labor's Win May be Brief" because the trend towards part-timers continues unabated.
The new path they are forging is still in its infancy, but unlike the edges of the stream that Susan Faludi chose to shine her lights on, these are the trends on which I place my bets for the future.