That may have been a reflection, in part, of the scratchy throat the candidate awoke with Thursday morning.

Baseball, hockey and basketball forced labor disputes down their fans' scratchy throats.

She read aloud until her scratchy throat forced her to pause.

One of my friends awakens with a scratchy throat nearly every morning on these cold winter days.

Or rather, he has a scratchy throat, but he's making an enormous to-do over it.

My older boy came down with a scratchy throat last night that turned into croup.

What about hot ginger cinnamon tea to ease that scratchy throat?

Burke swallowed hard to clear his scratchy throat, now irritated and dry.

A scratchy throat can be more than just an annoyance.

So how do you know the difference between a scratchy throat that will disappear on its own and the start of a potentially deadly infection?