Title : "Republicans can exhale now. Convicted coal magnate Don Blankenship’s surprise third-place finish in Tuesday’s West Virginia GOP Senate primary sidestepped yet another debacle..."
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"Republicans can exhale now. Convicted coal magnate Don Blankenship’s surprise third-place finish in Tuesday’s West Virginia GOP Senate primary sidestepped yet another debacle..."
Sidestepped? Blankenship got less than 20% of the vote, and even the guy who came in second beat Blankenship by almost 10 percentage points.I'm reading Politico's analysis of yesterday's primaries.
To sidestep is to avoid something by stepping to the side. The oldest usage of the word, according to the OED, is in football (so, I guess: soccer), when a player just steps to the side to avoid a tackle (is there tackling in soccer??). Figuratively, it means "To avoid or evade (an undesirable person, situation, or challenge); to avoid discussing or dealing with (a difficult or disagreeable issue)." So, something or someone is coming at you, and instead of engaging and fighting, you just step to the side, and it/they miss you. Seems like something that happens in cartoons... and — to be fair to Politico — that Blankenship thing did feel like a cartoon....
Blankenship was living in a Phoenix halfway house this time last year, after his conviction for conspiracy to skirt mine safety rules after an incident claimed the life of 29 miners at one of his facilities. He called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “Cocaine Mitch” and made racially charged comments about McConnell’s family.I've got to admit, I averted my eyes. Glad it's over. I still don't know what "Cocaine Mitch" was all about, but I've glanced at "The kooky tale of ‘Cocaine Mitch’" at WaPo's fact checker long enough to see that it got 4 Pinocchios... speaking of cartoons.
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