The Call On Allan To Step Down

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• Bernard 11 years ago

  This is a brilliant, persuasive and objective article by SAS. I'm not a sympathiser of NPP but i know when something is good. However, i still believe people such as Okoampah will take a firm stand not tolerate Alan. But, ...
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  This is a brilliant, persuasive and objective article by SAS. I'm not a sympathiser of NPP but i know when something is good. However, i still believe people such as Okoampah will take a firm stand not tolerate Alan. But, this will come with at a costly price.
  
  I foresee Alan going independent if pushed to the wall by Nana's supporters. And when this happens, it will neither be the electoral commisdion or Mahama/NDC sabotage but, Nana's own undoing.

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• Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang 11 years ago

  Alan is an achiever, for as a Minister of Trade, Industry, & PSI, he built $8.5 million state-of-the-art factory to produce high grade industrial starch from cassava for export. The Ayensu Starch factory has been bought by th ...
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  Alan is an achiever, for as a Minister of Trade, Industry, & PSI, he built $8.5 million state-of-the-art factory to produce high grade industrial starch from cassava for export. The Ayensu Starch factory has been bought by the Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) this year to produce beer for consumption. Alan constructed an enclave within the Tema Free Zone, for the manufacturing of garments for export. He revived the Oil Palm industry in Ghana; expanded the Salt mining operations; implemented the District Industrialization Programme, where at least, one medium-sized factory in each administrative district would be built; initiated the highly successful “National Friday Wear” programme, implemented the Distance Education programme to enable Ghanaian workers acquire higher degrees. Alan facilitated the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which offers Ghana, a quota free export of certain category of goods to the US market; and negotiated a $45 million loan facility with the World Bank to promote SME development in Ghana.

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• The mask 11 years ago

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• Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang 11 years ago

  This is a bogus analysis. The sample size is too small. The sample did not capture those in the villages, where majority of the polling station executive live. Humans cannot be compared with animals when it comes to decision ...
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  This is a bogus analysis. The sample size is too small. The sample did not capture those in the villages, where majority of the polling station executive live. Humans cannot be compared with animals when it comes to decision making so your Ebola reference is wrong. The behaviour of human beings is unpredictable. Those living in the cities - MPs, constituency and regional chairmen have different needs as against those of us in the villages. That is, they may prefer Akufo-Addo, but we see Alan as the one who can pay us every month. Akufo-Addo has not taken our welfare into consideration after leading the party for 6 years. If 740 delegates can decide for 140,000 delegates, then President Mahama could lead Ghana again if he gets 90% or acclamation from his party. Go back and read more about democracy. Go back and read more about the NPP's constitution. Go back and read more about the purpose of super delegates' conference as against national congress. I hope that education could change your mindset. Is this the first time Akufo-Addo is getting such high percentage in internal elections? What has been the political significance of his popularity? The bigger picture is 2016. Does Akufo-Addo stands a better chance than Alan? That should be our focus.

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• Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago

  Tatakyie, I disagree with you that Dr SAS's analysis is bogus because the sample is too small or he compared humans and animals. First, the sample is not too small statistically because MORI polls uses 5,000 voters as sample ...
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  Tatakyie, I disagree with you that Dr SAS's analysis is bogus because the sample is too small or he compared humans and animals. First, the sample is not too small statistically because MORI polls uses 5,000 voters as sample to predict UK elections if they were held in a particular month. Let's assume if UK has registered voter population of 20 million, would you call that bogus because the sample is too small?
  
  I am not sure if you misunderstood Dr SAS's analogy with animals but that was not to say or conclude that he compared animals with humans.
  
  My personal view over this matter is that NPP as a party has become a fundamentalist group when it comes to the 2016 Flagbearship contest. Both the Alan and Nana Akufo-Addo camps have lost their ability to be rational and put matters into its proper context, analyse them and come to objective decision. Both sides have dug into their positions and are not prepared to change those positions come what may.
  
  I sincerely hope that I am wrong and either one side or both sides would prove me wrong on October 18.
  
  You have also forgotten that the very people who said to Alan on his campaigns that they would vote for him did not do so at the ballot box. That is what surprised the team. What make you think that the 139,000+ voters would be different when those above them could influence their voting decision in a country like Ghana?

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• Daniel K. Pryce, Ph.D. 11 years ago

  The NPP's recently concluded preliminary selection process to choose a flag-bearer for Election 2016 leaves me with two concerns:
  
  (1) Why have a two-step process to select a flag-bearer for national elections, more so beca ...
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  The NPP's recently concluded preliminary selection process to choose a flag-bearer for Election 2016 leaves me with two concerns:
  
  (1) Why have a two-step process to select a flag-bearer for national elections, more so because of the huge costs involved? In other words, why organize a congress in August 2014, and then another two months later? What is the essence of this initial "pruning?"
  
  (2) Some are asking Alan Kyerematen, the runner-up at the recent congress, to step down and fully endorse Nana Akufo-Addo as the NPP flag-bearer for Election 2016. The question is: Why? If the party deemed it necessary to install a two-step, albeit profligate, process, then why are some party aficionados calling on Kyerematen to quit the race before the second part of the process takes place?
  
  Overall, I think that the NPP's two-step process is a waste of time and resources, and I hope that the NPP, in the name of fiscal responsibility, especially because the party wants to wrestle power from the ruling NDC, will revisit this criterion for selecting future flag-bearers, commencing with Election 2020.
  
  Ghana is saddled with too many problems for leading political parties to be profligate in their spending, especially because it does not send the right message to informed voters.

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• Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

  My dear Dr. Pryce,
  You are right about the profligacy of the two-step process, but that is the more reason to truncate the process if the outcome is not in question. It is not enough to validate an exercise on the mere propo ...
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  My dear Dr. Pryce,
  You are right about the profligacy of the two-step process, but that is the more reason to truncate the process if the outcome is not in question. It is not enough to validate an exercise on the mere proposition that the constitution allows it. The exercise should find its indispensability in its inherent necessity.
  We are talking here of Akufo-Addo's 81 per cent as opposed to Allan's 8. Upon what scientific and logical bases can you argue that this outcome will change in the general delegates congress? In the US system, candidates step down if it becomes obvious that they have no chance of winning the nomination.
  You state:Some are asking Alan Kyerematen, the runner-up at the recent congress, to step down and fully endorse Nana Akufo-Addo as the NPP flag-bearer for Election 2016. The question is: Why.
  
  Given the present circumstances, the question should rather be "Why not?"

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• Kofi Nai 11 years ago

  You are right his piece is bogus and lack logic.
  The piece is poor in scientific and social reasoning. There is huge dichotomy between chemical reaction and social reaction for that matter Zmapp curing 5 monkeys can cure hum ...
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  You are right his piece is bogus and lack logic.
  The piece is poor in scientific and social reasoning. There is huge dichotomy between chemical reaction and social reaction for that matter Zmapp curing 5 monkeys can cure human can not be compared with the voting trend between 800 NPP elders 114,000 NPP delegates. I wonder if that man is real Dr.

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• Yaw 11 years ago

  I do not think this doctor lives in the US where democracy revered to the highest heavens even though I have a problem with their kind of democracy outside the US. 800 delegates cannot be used to assess akufo addo's popularit ...
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  I do not think this doctor lives in the US where democracy revered to the highest heavens even though I have a problem with their kind of democracy outside the US. 800 delegates cannot be used to assess akufo addo's popularity. It is a shame that, academics like this gentleman have fallen for the akufo addo deception.

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• Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago

  Yaw, Dr SAS used Sociological/Statistical analysis to draw his conclusion that Alan should withdraw to save his dignity. If you think he is wrong then state your case and challenge his analysis and conclusion, instead of demo ...
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  Yaw, Dr SAS used Sociological/Statistical analysis to draw his conclusion that Alan should withdraw to save his dignity. If you think he is wrong then state your case and challenge his analysis and conclusion, instead of democracy in the US. Do you also know that in the US when candidates perform very badly in a contest they expected to do well, they withdraw? So therefore Dr DAS is not far from what is the custom in US democracy?
  
  Dr SAS, I agree with you on your analysis and conclusion. I also share your mum's views, except that from what Alan's camp is saying, it appears to me that Alan has become the proverbial dead goat. It's no longer scared of the sharp knife that would be used to slit its throat, so the competition is on. I hope they prove you wrong but the Mathematical equation is really against them.
  
  You are also absolutely right about Nana Akufo-Addo's silence over certain matters regarding this contest. His inability to condemn the violence at the party HQ, Kennedy Agyapong's "beat or kill Gas and Ewes in Asante Region" and his recent allegation of a poison plot against leading NPP figures, etc is really disturbing and in fact casts doubt over his ability or willingness to bring all on board after he secures the flagbearership.

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• SycophantsForNanaAddo 11 years ago

  Please stay away from statistics and concentrate on your law. The super delegates (actually super sycophants) do not represent a good sample for your flawed analysis.

  Please stay away from statistics and concentrate on your law. The super delegates (actually super sycophants) do not represent a good sample for your flawed analysis.

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• Kofi Agyare 11 years ago

  I am really surprise that, Nana Addo with all his political experience has not instructed his supporeters to stop that nuisance of No Nana No Vote. It is very sad when you hear this from some party leaders and supporters.
  
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  I am really surprise that, Nana Addo with all his political experience has not instructed his supporeters to stop that nuisance of No Nana No Vote. It is very sad when you hear this from some party leaders and supporters.
  
  My question is, what will happen if Alan supporters too start with No Alan No Vote?
  
  We should be fair to all the candidates and listen to them about how they are going to win 2016 election and redeem Ghanaians from Pres. Mahama's incompetence.
  
  We have fair minded people like Dr Arthur Kennedy who is constantly writing and advising on unity but because now we worship Nana like God in NPP, people are not listening but rather insulting him and anyone perceived to be against Nana Addo. When you read Dr Kenedy's articles, you can see that the man is very sad about what is currently going on in NPP but because our eye and ears are so clouded with Nana Addo, you don't want to listen. We will see the importance of what he is saying after 2016 elections. Now we still have some leaders who instead of finding out why we lost both 2008 and 2012 elections and strategise for 2016 are still saying that NPP won 2012. We should have the courage and accept defeat because we lost, and say never in 2016 by analysing why we lost and put in measures to win 2016.
  
  My final advise to Nana Addo is to instruct his supporters to desist from insulting or attacking Alan and his supporters because from all indications Nana Addo might win the October primaries and will need the support of Alan and all the other candidates to win 2016 election.
  
  We should listen to Arthur K. because we are tired of losing election which we should have won easily or to guote Dr Kennedy, grabbing defeat to the jaws of victory.
  
  Nana Addo please advise your supporters now not after October because it will be too late and will cost you 2016 like 2008 and 2012. We should also remember that, Pres. Mahama use just three months to defeat Nana Addo. So think about what will happen now that he is going to use four years with a divided NPP.

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• Papa Yaw. 11 years ago

  No

  No

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• Kwapps 11 years ago

  Nana has so far not demonstrated any "crowd" controlling skills within the party and i find that very worrying. Rather, he seems to revel in their adulation and therefore not able to call anyone to order. Will he be strong en ...
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  Nana has so far not demonstrated any "crowd" controlling skills within the party and i find that very worrying. Rather, he seems to revel in their adulation and therefore not able to call anyone to order. Will he be strong enough to step on their toes when elected?
  
  If Alan goes all the way to the party congress and loses then he would have appended his own signature to his death warrant and his days within the party would be over. Undeterred, and characteristically, he could form his own party and this would throw serious challenges both for NPP and NDC. That is one contest I would pay any day to see!

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• EFO 11 years ago

  ALAN BOYS DON'T VOTE ANYTIME ALAN DOES NOT WIN THE PRIMARIES . NO VOTES FROM ALAN BOYS CONTRIBUTE TO NANA'S FAILURES.

  ALAN BOYS DON'T VOTE ANYTIME ALAN DOES NOT WIN THE PRIMARIES . NO VOTES FROM ALAN BOYS CONTRIBUTE TO NANA'S FAILURES.

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• G. K. Berko 11 years ago

  Dr. SAS, yours is the strongest persuasion yet for Alan and the other candidates to drop out of the race. I commend you for your exquisite analysis.
  
  However, there is a belief that the sample on which the analysis is base ...
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  Dr. SAS, yours is the strongest persuasion yet for Alan and the other candidates to drop out of the race. I commend you for your exquisite analysis.
  
  However, there is a belief that the sample on which the analysis is based was skewed from the very beginning. That is not by you and the others using stastical data to project the final outcome but by certain leaders of the NPP who might have coerced the delegates to vote overwhelmingly for Akufo-Addo.
  
  If that belief has any chance of proving true, there could be a significant shift in the final outcome by the virtue of the fact that the larger population that would participate in the Primaries may not be as tainted by the coercion alluded to.
  
  Therefore, even if all the 800 delegates had voted for Akufo-Addo in the trimming process, and the suspected coercion were true, the other candidates still would stand a chance of pulling an upset in the Primaries.
  
  Besides, much also depends on the campaign efforts of the various camps. If Alan were to embark upon a much more aggressive campaign to debunk lots of the garbage the Akufo-Addo camp have dumped on him, and presented himself as a better problem-solver with a strong belief in diversity, for example, he could sway many to his camp who might have initially thought of voting for Akufo-Addo in the Primaries.
  
  So, the numbers extracted from the last trimming exercise alone could not be difinitively conclusive for any projected outcome in the Primaries.
  
  Besides, your honest observation on the acrimony between the Alan's and Akufo-Addo's Camp is acknowledged. The failure of the Akufo-Addo's camp to embrace the calls for decorum and refrain from attacking Alan, especially, is an impediment for Alan to accept the request for his pull-out. Your suggestion that Alan could enjoy greater goodwill for standing down could only be right among the ordinary NPP members and sympathizers but not among Akufo-Addo core supporters. Alan could stretch the status quo to the end, and enhance the flaws in Akufo-Addo's camp to jeopardize his chances in 2016, even if Akufo-Addo wins the Primaries. That might put Alan in the basket of 'spoilers', causing the NPP to lose the Election, again. However, the subsequent reaction would be proving the fact that Akufo-Addo might be unacceptable to the Nation, in general.
  
  It is for that reason that I, for one, have been suggesting all along that the NPP leave the process intact for the natural outcome to emerge, at the Primaries, even if Akufo-Addo would turn out to be the winner.

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• LONTO-BOY 11 years ago

  Dr SAS, this piece is very reasonable and fairly objective. It wouldn't be unreasonable for Alan Kyerematen to step down, and let Nana Akufo-Addo run as the NPP Presidential nominee. However, I would imagine Alan has managed ...
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  Dr SAS, this piece is very reasonable and fairly objective. It wouldn't be unreasonable for Alan Kyerematen to step down, and let Nana Akufo-Addo run as the NPP Presidential nominee. However, I would imagine Alan has managed to convince himself that he could win the forthcoming NPP leadership election. Of course, on the basis of the party's Super Delegates Conference, seemingly, Nana Akufo-Addo is the front-runner and the more popular choice for NPP's Presidential candidacy. Unless there's a dramatic reversal in fortunes, Nana will surely beat Alan, again.

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• Kofi Nai 11 years ago

  The piece is poor in scientific and social reasoning. There is huge dichotomy between chemical reaction and social reaction for that matter Zmapp curing 5 monkeys can cure human can not be compared with the voting trend betwe ...
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  The piece is poor in scientific and social reasoning. There is huge dichotomy between chemical reaction and social reaction for that matter Zmapp curing 5 monkeys can cure human can not be compared with the voting trend between 800 NPP elders 114,000 NPP delegates. I wonder if that man is real Dr.

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• kwabena adu 11 years ago

  I agree with the author to a large extent. Nana needs to do more to assure all that he is ready to unite the party. Then Alan could be advised to bow out

  I agree with the author to a large extent. Nana needs to do more to assure all that he is ready to unite the party. Then Alan could be advised to bow out

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• kwabena adu 11 years ago

  I have never seen hypocrisy at its peak like what is going on in NPP. Nana addo contested Kuffour even after only 1 attempt. Nobody said no Kuffour's no vote. Today the one who has lost twice is being worshipped and a whole p ...
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  I have never seen hypocrisy at its peak like what is going on in NPP. Nana addo contested Kuffour even after only 1 attempt. Nobody said no Kuffour's no vote. Today the one who has lost twice is being worshipped and a whole party has been hijacked with a no nana no vote nonsense. Elite party indeed, Democrats indeed!!

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• BOY KOFI 11 years ago

  Nobody should tell Alan to withdraw because the real flagbearer race is yet to begin.Nana Addo was expected to win last Sunday but we must ask ourselves if there is policy difference between the 2 of them.As far as I am conce ...
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  Nobody should tell Alan to withdraw because the real flagbearer race is yet to begin.Nana Addo was expected to win last Sunday but we must ask ourselves if there is policy difference between the 2 of them.As far as I am concerned the NPP voted for Nana Addo based on his popularity but not on political effective strategy.The NPP has failed Ghanaians by not presenting any concrete policies from the 7 aspirants for us to know the difference.I don't know the difference of policies between Alan and Nana Addo because there was no intellectual debate whatsoever.All the aspirants campaigned in secrecy without showing any capacity of their readiness to govern this country or showing any tactic of how they are going to solve the problems facing the country.I am sure the best way for NPP to win the 2016 general elections is to show Ghanaians what they can do in pratical terms if they are voted into power.Thank yyou.

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• Kwabena 11 years ago

  MOVING FORWARD IN UNITY
  (Excerpts from a statement by Hon J.H. MENSAH, MP, at NPP ANNUAL DELEGATES CONFERENCE, KOFORIDUA, 5-7 JANUARY 2007)
  Some people want to put the cart before the horse, instead of building the party. A ...
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  MOVING FORWARD IN UNITY
  (Excerpts from a statement by Hon J.H. MENSAH, MP, at NPP ANNUAL DELEGATES CONFERENCE, KOFORIDUA, 5-7 JANUARY 2007)
  Some people want to put the cart before the horse, instead of building the party. And they are dissipating energy on such absurd arguments like what some aspirants said or did not say when they were in university thirty years ago. Does that kind of talk win election? Some say we need a man with strong muscles. For what? To break stones in the Castle or to have another boxing match in the cabinet room again? Some are said to be handsome and oozing with charisma; but that is strictly a problem for them and their wives in chambers. What the NPP needs is a party machine which can keep the power that we won in 2001 and a message to inspire the nation.
  Mr. Chairman, when the time comes you will tell us the contributions that everybody has made towards building up the party. Anybody who has been indifferent to that task can surely not expect the same machinery to support him to become President. The party rank and file must feel sufficiently enthusiastic about our candidate so that they will work their hearts out to assure NPP Victory at the polls.
  It is not enough that somebody says he wants to be President. We have all worked together, and we know each other’s contributions. We cannot gamble with the choice of a leader, and surely Quality Tells.
  Thirdly, all of us who will have to work with our future President must be honestly able to vouch before the people of Ghana that he can successfully run an enterprise as difficult, complex and demanding as the Ghana Project. This is not a beauty contest: it is about managing the destiny of an entire people.

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• K,Sarpong, Selden, New York 11 years ago

  I agree with my countryman, Adjei Sarfo on his brilliant advice to Allan Kyeremateng. Prolonging this battle will only hurt the NPP and cause unnecessary
  waste of money and resources. In New York, where I live, the constitut ...
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  I agree with my countryman, Adjei Sarfo on his brilliant advice to Allan Kyeremateng. Prolonging this battle will only hurt the NPP and cause unnecessary
  waste of money and resources. In New York, where I live, the constitution states that in a primary election for party nominees, example Mayor, when one candidate gets 40% and the others get less, the one who gets 40% is the nominee of the party. However, if nobody gets 40%, the top two will face off in another election. Recently in the Democratic primary election for Mayor of New York city, Bill de Blasio was leading his nearest opponent 39.4% to 28.8%. The party elders tried to convince the other guy to withdraw and create unanimity in the party. While he was still thinking about it, absentee ballots were counted and Bill de Blasio cleared the 40% mark, rendering the need to withdraw by his nearest opponent moot. The city saved millions of Dollars from another election.That is New York City -the richest city in the world. The British have a proverb that says " as expensive as an election". The NPP should emulate New York, and do the same. Party elders should try to convince Allan Kyeremateng and the two others to withdraw and amend the party constitution for a 60% vote for one person makes him the nominee for the general election. Save money for the general election.Dont waste it because of democracy.

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• Kuffour Ashanti thief Hoodlum (KATH) 11 years ago

  How can you compare chemical reaction with social reaction? You see why Ashantis are stupid. Alan can do a lot of ground work at the lower level to win .

  How can you compare chemical reaction with social reaction? You see why Ashantis are stupid. Alan can do a lot of ground work at the lower level to win .

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