Red 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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New Tea Party Anthem?

Jeff Witzeman | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Red States, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party, Political Humor, Comedy News
Jeff Witzeman

Even as members of the tea party have resolved to stop hiring, me and the fellas in the band (Jeff Witzeman & The Jealous Housewives) are hoping that members at the top still want to hire a group of first rate musicians to pen a new tea party anthem.

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Will Obama's Comeback Hold? Our Poll Says He Has a Lot of Work to Do

John Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Red States, Swing States, Unemployment, Polling, Obama Red States, Barack Obama Polls, Obama Comeback, Elections 2012, Joblessness, Politics News
John Zogby

An interactive poll of more than 10,000 likely voters we conducted earlier this month found that even after Obama's approval bounce, he still has a lot of work to do in those swing states.

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Teenage Trainwrecks: The New Prom Queens?

Jessica Massa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, Jessica Simpson, Taylor Momsen, Young Women, Beyonce, Alanis Morissette, Millennial Generation, Rehab, Women's Empowerment, Red States, Shirley Manson (Garbage), Taylor Swift, Sarah Palin, Fiona Apple, Reality-Bites, Disney, Celebrities, Entertainment News
Jessica Massa

Let's be honest: female teen idols have never been the most well-behaved bunch. So why do I find this latest crop so worrisome? What has me shakin...

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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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Drill Another Hole in My Head, Baby, Drill Me Now

Daniel Krotz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Berryville, Daniel Krotz, Bookseller, Deer Hunting With Jesus, Arkansas, Red States, Sarah Palin, Books, Books News
Daniel Krotz

There has been a raft of books and articles out recently that try to explain why low and moderate income people are voting against their own economic and social interests.

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An Extraordinary Achievement

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Harry Reid, Bill Frist, Tea Baggers, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, Dlc, Republicans, Democratic Party, Newt Gingrich, Red States, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Obama did today what Democrats should do all over the country: Cut through the right-wing misinformation and propaganda and remind people why this reform was needed

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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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Obama Supporters Angry But Well Behaved

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Red States, Health Care Protests, Tea Baggers, Barack Obama, Death Panels, Protest, Ohio, Socialism, Media, Health Care, Death Panel, Tea Bagging, Politics News
Dawn Teo

Instead of looking for the real story on health care, reporters across America are looking for ways to turn it into a better, more sensational tale. A small, loud minority is getting all of the attention.

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Democrat or Not, Why You Should Wear Black Now

Shawna Vercher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birthers, Red States, Teabagging, Liberals, Texas Republicans, Barney Frank, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Politics News
Shawna Vercher

Now we have a choice. Does health care reform pass away as legend and a political footnote?

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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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The Avoidable Tragedy of California's Prop 8

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Yes on 8, Civil Rights, Ron George, George W. Bush, Dianne Feinstein, Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Same-Sex Marriage, John Kerry, Red States, Gay Rights, Barack Obama, Frank Schubert, No on 8, California Supreme Court, Ohio, Gay Marriage, Religious Voters, San Francisco, 2004 Presidential Race, Politics News
William Bradley

The California Supreme Court's decision to uphold Proposition 8 is all the more tragic in that the initiative never should have passed in the first place.

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