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...which have been a huge factor in the Democrats’ optimistic forecasts. In the same way Americans abroad, out of a sense of propriety, claim to be Canadians, I usually tell Cantabridgians that I’m from Washington D.C. I’ve never actually met any Appalachian Virginians, but I’ve always assumed they were kind of inbred yokels, bitter people clinging to their guns and religion. I know they probably consider me a left-wing Jewish homosexual pornographer. (Both caricatures probably have a degree of truthiness to them...
...usually met with amazement: Hatch was invited to join the Tigers after spending a season in Cambridge, where he was a backup quarterback who never played a down.“We happened to have the TV on in the locker room when they were playing their opener against Appalachian State, and everybody’s just standing there shaking their heads,” head coach Tim Murphy says. “It’s unbelievable, it’s great.”It was personal connections that led Hatch to Harvard, and those same connections eventually...
...course, still-undefeated Chris Pizzotti is the Crimson’s actual quarterback. However, with a little luck, we could have watched Appalachian State’s Armanti Edwards marshal Harvard’s offense. The Heisman dark horse was recruited by Harvard, but he ultimately decided to spurn the Crimson for the chance to play on a slightly larger stage as a Mountaineer...
...Race is the elephant in the room of the 2008 campaign. In West Virginia's primary, one out of every four Hillary Clinton voters actually admitted to pollsters that race was a factor in their vote; that may be an Appalachian outlier, but even in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio the figure was a troubling 1 in 10. It's a tribute to America's racial progress that a biracial man born before Jim Crow died could come this close to the presidency, but if you believe that contemporary America is color-blind, you probably also believe the Georgia Congressman...
...Take a Hike Organize a weekend outing. You don't have to tackle the Appalachian Trail; simply find a nearby large park to explore or make it an urban hike. Plan a picnic and bring a ball or Frisbee...