Blue States

Hacking Away at the Pearson Octopus

Alan Singer | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Texas, Red States, Pearson Education, Common Core, Octopus, 2008 Presidential Race, Monopoly, Blue States, National Governors Association, Jules Verne, New York, American Heritage, Prentice-Hall, Education News
Alan Singer

Pearson is tilting the coverage of U.S. history to win approval by school boards in red states, and in doing this, allowing the most conservative school boards in the nation to determine what gets taught in New York State schools.

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Republicans Hope Blue States Go Red In November

RealClearPolitics | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Red States, Blue States, Obama, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney 2012, Obama 2012, Politics News

In 2008, Barack Obama utilized demographic shifts, his campaign's unprecedented financial resources, and his unique political profile to expand dramat...

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Why Are Some States Poorer Than Others?

Harlan Green | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Professor Dean Lacy, Blue States, Red States, Paul Krugman, Paul Ryan, Business News
Harlan Green

We have austerity in our own country as a result of the Great Recession, but it doesn't fall equally on all states. In fact, states suffering the most are mainly those in the South, Midwest and manufacturing rust belts.

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Red States Outscored Blue Under Obama

Richard Barrington | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Credit Card, Experian, Credit Score, Red States, Blue States, Household Finances, President Obama, Interest Rates, Debt, Republican, Democrat, Credit Card Offers, Business News
Richard Barrington

It's the classic election year question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? As the primary season gets under way, expect to hear some version of that question with increasing frequency. Your answer may depend on where you live -- and how you vote.

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Is CBS' Blue Bloods Showing the Way to Our Political Future?

Mark Blankenship | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Red States, Politics, Conservatives, Blue Bloods, Liberals, Blue Bloods CBS, Elections 2010, Donnie Wahlberg, Drama, Blue States, Cbs, Tom Selleck, Family, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

As everyone heads to the polls today, I'm reminded that the CBS series Blue Bloods, about a family of New York cops and lawyers, has become an unlikely balm for my frustration about America's nasty political culture.

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The Question That Answers Everything About the Election (and America, too)

Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Branding, Blue States, Red States, Fox News, Yougov, Adage, Politics News
Marty Kaplan

The number one most favored brand among Democrats appears nowhere among the top ten most favored brands among Republicans. Ditto the reverse.

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It's the Tea Party People Who Are the Parasites

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virginia, Red States, Insurance, Collectivism, Cram, Missouri, Referendum, Individual Mandate, Blue States, Florida, Premium, Tea Party, Health Care, Lawsuit, Politics News
Jesse Larner

The Tea Party will defend to the death -- perhaps literally -- their right to be bankrupt and ill in an entirely privatized system of health care.

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Why Purple Will Be the New Blue

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Politics, Red States, Social Justice, Monoculture, Purple, AT&T, Green, Trends, Blue States, Multicultural, Prejudice, Tea Party, Same-Sex Marriage, Style News
Marian Salzman

Simple dichotomies such as red and blue are behind us. Purple clothing may come and go, but I believe purple as a state of mind is here to stay.

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San Francisco Values Save the World!

Mark Morford | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Abortion, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Red States, Divorce, Family Values, Teen Pregnancy, Religious Right, Blue States, Hate Speech, Birth Control, Gay Marriage, Sex Education, Sodomy, Christian Right, Evangelicals, Healthy Living News
Mark Morford

Would the spittle-flecked bipeds who write to me (or comment down below) and misspell "commy" and "sodimite" listen or care in the slightest? I already know the answer.

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Nick Wing

2010 Election Landscape: Most States Still Blue Despite GOP Gains

HuffingtonPost.com | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: State Party Identification Poll, Polls, Red States, Gallup Polls, Gallup Poll, Party Identification Poll, Party Identification, Blue States, Poll, Blue State Red State Poll, Blue States Red States Poll, Politics News

A Gallup poll released Monday showed that there are still more blue states than red, but the findings also confirm that Democrats have lost some of th...

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What Color Are You? What Color Is Your State?

D. Brad Wright | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Purple States, Blue States, Red States, Andrew Gelman, Politics News
D. Brad Wright

First of all, let me stress that the question "what color are you" is about political ideology, not race. Second, I am choosing to post this today as ...

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Feminomics: Red v. Blue Family Paradigms

June Carbone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bristol Palin Pregnancy, Red States, Single Mothers, Bristol Palin Abstinence, Red State/Blue State, Unintended Pregnancies, Blue States, Bristol Palin Levi Johnston, Politics News
June Carbone

The areas of the country that have embraced the new "blue" model of family life have seen teen birth and divorce rates plummet. In contrast, "red" marriage promotion, which tries to control sex rather than childbearing, is a proven failure.

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Inequality Starts at Home

June Carbone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue States, Red States, Family Planning, Working Mothers, Family, Business News
June Carbone

Family structure in the United States magnifies class-based inequality and undermines the human capital of the next generation.

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Is Arnold Governor of a Girly-Man $tate?

Patt Morrison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Budget, Welfare, Blue States, Red States, California Budget Crisis, Donor States, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News
Patt Morrison

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been complaining lately about the fact that, for every buck we Californians send to the federal coffers, we only get back about 78 cents in federal benefits.

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Western Liberalism and the New Blue Review

Todd Hartley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Todd Hartley, Blue States, Western Liberalism, Obama, Colorado, New Blue Review, 2008 Election, Colorado Politics, Colorado Democrats, Denver News
Todd Hartley

Let's start by throwing this out there for debate: How would you define Western liberalism?

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Cash for Fatties

Wendy Wanderman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cash for Clunkers, Red States, Blue States, Trust for America's Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Overweight, Healthy Living News
Wendy Wanderman

According to a recent report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Top 5 states that have the highest percentage of overweight people are all Republican red states.

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Jeff Muskus

Blue States Pick Up Health Reform Tab For Red States: Study

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Census, Red States, Table, Tax, Citizen for Tax Justice, Health Care Reform, Blue States, Health Care, Health Reform, Politics News

Under the new House proposal for health care reform, blue states will be picking up more than their share of the tab, according to a new study from th...

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News
Gary Cohan

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

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Mark Udall: High Noon in the Senate

Al Eisele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, Red States, Blue States, Ken Salazar, Eco Politcs, Senator Mark Udall, Colorado, Politics News
Al Eisele

Sen. Mark Udall appears poised to play a key role in shaping the eco-politics of the 21st century.

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Obama Stimulus Tour Focuses On New Blue States

New York Times | Jeff Zeleny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue States, Obama Stimulus Tour, Barack Obama, Obama Blue States, Politics News

A trend is emerging in President Obama's out-of-the-gate travel itinerary: Top billing has been given to states that turned from red to blue in the fa...

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The Geography of Climate Politics

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, Red States, Politics, Geography, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Sherrod Brown, Blue States, Clean Technology, Climate Change, Democrats, Energy Policy, Coal, Global Warming, Claire McCaskill, Green News
Jesse Jenkins

When it comes to the geography of climate politics, it doesn't break down along the much-ballyhooed "red state/blue state" divide.

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Red-State Expats: Please Send Money Home

Julie Fanselow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue States, Red States, Political Donations, Barack Obama, Political Activism, Former Homes, Politics News
Julie Fanselow

Many of us are succeeding, in places like Great Falls, Montana, and Omaha, Nebraska, as former GOP strongholds become more hospitable to progressive ideas and people.

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Where To Live Now: Using The Electoral Map As Guide

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Washington, Mexico, Oregon, Blue States, Colorado, Texas, Election Results, Red States, Virginia, Relocation, Montana, Election Reaction, New Mexico, Ex-Pat, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Carolina, Style News
Jeannie Ralston

I've found that I've increasingly consulted the electoral map as I've been trying to zero in on our new home.

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Barack And His Purple Crayon

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Blue States, Red States, Purple States, Barack Obama, Healthy Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I heard the other night a young girl describe an interview she conducted with the then Senator Barack Obama. She was able to ask him lots of question...

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The Morning After

Laurel Kaufer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Racism, Civil War, Obama Wins, Nov 5th Celebration, Sarah Palin Vp Pick, Obama Election Day, Election Day 2008, Election Day, President Obama, Blue States, Election Results, Electoral Map, Election, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Red States, National Popular Vote, Presidential Results, Electoral Votes, Racism, Electoral College, Obama Hope, Barack Obama Acceptance Speech, Politics News
Laurel Kaufer

As we have heard from the analysts on both sides for much of the last month, this year we saw "the perfect storm" hit the Republican party in almost every conceivable way.

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