Red States

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Obama Supporters Angry But Well Behaved

Dawn Teo | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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

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 09.26.2009 | Politics

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

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 09.03.2009 | Living

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

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

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 07.30.2009 | Politics

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

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 06.26.2009 | Politics

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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Mark Udall: High Noon in the Senate

Al Eisele | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

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

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

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Some Conservative States Pushing Back Against Stem Cell Research

AP | SHANNON McCAFFREY | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Red States, Conservative States, Stem Cells, Obama Stem Cells, Politics News

ATLANTA — A showdown is shaping up in some of the nation's most conservative states over embryonic stem cell research, as opponents draw languag...

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Red-state Residents Buy the Most Online Porn

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 04.03.2009 | Style

I wonder how pill-popping Rush Limbaugh would explain this: a new study out of Harvard Business School finds that red-staters buy more online porn than their blue state compatriots.

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The Geography of Climate Politics

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

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

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 01.19.2009 | Politics

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

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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Message to President-Elect Obama: After Heller, "Build a Bridge to Moderates" with Common Sense On Guns

Paul Helmke | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pollsters, Polls, Supreme Court, Red States, National Rifle Association, George W. Bush, Gun Control, Obama Transition, Democrats, Mark Penn, Nra, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Guns, Illegal Guns, Republicans, Politics News

Because of the Supreme Court decision, the gun violence prevention debate has shifted from the extremes to the middle.

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Where To Live Now: Using The Electoral Map As Guide

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 12.15.2008 | Style

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

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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Gun Sales Soar On Obama Victory

NY Times | KIRK JOHNSON | Posted 12.08.2008 | Business

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DENVER -- Sales of handguns, rifles and ammunition have surged in the last week, according to gun store owners around the nation who describe a wave o...

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Barack And His Purple Crayon

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 12.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Blue States, Red States, Purple States, Barack Obama, Living News

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 12.06.2008 | Politics

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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Sarah we hardly knew ye

Dave Winer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Auto Industry, Lipstick, Hocky Mom, Obama, Texas, Pennsylvania, Pit Bull, Red States, Punchline, Palin, John Kerry, Sarah Palin, New Hampshire, Georgia, Katie Couric, Expensive Clothes, Maverick, Republican Party, North Carolina, Detroit, Politics News

Cleaning up some loose ends. Obama won Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, two states that were on McCain's slim path to a win. Once those were decided, ...

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Premature Emancipation? A Pragmatist's View of the Gay Marriage Struggle

Gary Cohan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lawrence vs. Texas, Mormon Church, Karl Rove, Culture Wars, Ballot Initiative, Theocracy, U.S. Constitution, 2008 Election, Homosexual Rights, Civil Rights, U.S. Supreme Court, California Gay Marriage, Red States, Gay Rights, Human Rights, Ban on Gay Marriages, American History, California Supreme Court, Women and Politics, Religion and Politics, Premature Ejaculation, Separate but Equal, Separation of Church and State, Poltical Strategy, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, Albert Einstein, Prop 8, No on Prop 8, Church of the Latter Day Saints, Yes on Prop 8, Mormon Prop 8, Politics News

Civil rights are not won in the war zone of national elections or State referenda but, rather, in a series of small but important evolutionary steps.

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Bush To Obama: "What An Awesome Night For You"

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Bush has called Barack Obama to congratulate him on winning the presidency. The two-term Republican president told the I...

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Kerry: "Tonight New Dreams Are Born"

CNN | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Sen. John Kerry released the following statement in response to Sen. Barack Obama's victory: "Tonight we elected a President who has inspired a major...

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McCain Camp Mood: "Great Fight" ... "No Regrets"

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

MSNBC describes the mood in John McCain's villa: Senior staffers are gathering to spend time with Senator McCain at the "family villa" they are usin...

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President Obama: Barack Obama Becomes America's 44th President

Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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See below for the results of election 2008! Daily Kos Map CNN's Electoral Map Google Map: Follow Presidential, Senate House Races CBS News ...

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MSNBC Continually Features Inaccurate Poll Closing Times

Media Matters | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media

Sometimes, the multitude of information and data that floods the airwaves on Election Day can be too overwhelming to keep track of. During MSNBC's co...

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Why Obama Will Lose Today....

Richard Grenell | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Since Obama's problems from the Democratic Primary have not been resolved, nor reported by the national media, the Electoral College map signals trouble for the media's main man.

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Election Results: States To Watch

NY Times/Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Pundits and pollsters may be trying to take all the fun out of Election Day. So many have predicted a lopsided victory for Senator Barack Obama over S...

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