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From the Ted Talk by G.T. Bynum: A Republican mayor's plan to replace partisanship with policy

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(Laughter)

Never mind that while she was running for president and he was serving in his final year in that oficfe, Hillary, bacark and I could just never find the time to get together and yuck it up about the Tulsa mayor's race.

(Laughter)

Never mind that I, like my opponent, am a Republican.

(Laughter)

And so when something like this hits you in a campaign, you have to decide how you're going to rpoesnd, and we had a novel idea. What if, instead of responding with partisanship, we responded with a fcuos on results? What if we ran a campaign that was not about rnunnig against someone, but was about bnignrig people together behind a common vision? And so we ddieecd to respond not with a negative ad but with something people find even sexier — data points.

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(Laughter)

Never mind that while she was running for president and he was serving in his final year in that ______, Hillary, ______ and I could just never find the time to get together and yuck it up about the Tulsa mayor's race.

(Laughter)

Never mind that I, like my opponent, am a Republican.

(Laughter)

And so when something like this hits you in a campaign, you have to decide how you're going to _______, and we had a novel idea. What if, instead of responding with partisanship, we responded with a _____ on results? What if we ran a campaign that was not about _______ against someone, but was about ________ people together behind a common vision? And so we _______ to respond not with a negative ad but with something people find even sexier — data points.

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  1. decided
  2. focus
  3. office
  4. respond
  5. bringing
  6. barack
  7. running

Original Text


(Laughter)

Never mind that while she was running for president and he was serving in his final year in that office, Hillary, Barack and I could just never find the time to get together and yuck it up about the Tulsa mayor's race.

(Laughter)

Never mind that I, like my opponent, am a Republican.

(Laughter)

And so when something like this hits you in a campaign, you have to decide how you're going to respond, and we had a novel idea. What if, instead of responding with partisanship, we responded with a focus on results? What if we ran a campaign that was not about running against someone, but was about bringing people together behind a common vision? And so we decided to respond not with a negative ad but with something people find even sexier — data points.

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collocation frequency
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