Word: appealling
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...proud country boy, a real estate agent from rural Booneville, while Davis is a more stilted suburbanite, the mayor of the bedroom community of Southaven. By recruiting candidates who depart from party orthodoxy but are more in line with conservative districts, Pelosi's team has expanded the Democrats' appeal in long-hostile territory. Childers actually runs strongest in rural towns that support John McCain but resent growing Memphis, Tenn., suburbs like Southaven. That presents dilemmas for Democratic leaders back in Washington, who may find new members of their herd hard to corral. After the galvanizing force of Bush is gone...
...understand the appeal the former Prentiss County chancery clerk has in deep red northern Mississippi, it's less helpful to know his party affiliation than to watch him deliver a 15-minute soliloquy on the glories of fried green tomatoes over lunch in Columbus or work the crowd at the annual Good Ole Boys and Gals political barbecue in Oxford or react to the news that squirrel dumplings would be served at a cookout in Yalobusha County. "Honey child!" Childers shouted with glee. "I think it's fair to say," he told me later, "that I'm a squirrel-dumpling...
Ironically, the very appeal of Palin's candidacy, and Obama's, is how they give the lie to "regular" Americanness, to the assumptions about what a female or a black candidate must be like. They remind us by their presence that "average" is anything but, that no one has a monopoly on reality. Our pundits should keep that in mind too. It would be--dare I say it?--the pro-American thing...
Adherents say that despite the inevitable voyeurs, exhibitionists and fabricators drawn to the sites, online confessions have a fundamental appeal because they assure people that they are not alone in their misery or quirkiness, and for the confessor, the anonymous unburdening can be a first step toward facing up to a painful event. Frank Warren started the original online confessional, the distinctly secular PostSecret.com--which draws 5 million viewers a month--as an art installation in Washington. He handed out self-addressed postcards to strangers and asked them to write and decorate a secret that a) was true...
...Gore’s final appeal to the audience members was that they make their voices heard...