Word: beltways
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...linked to one piece of coverage. Even the Democratic National Committee barely mentioned Fenty's win, and this is a year when both political parties are so eager to claim momentum that they trumpet every victory with celebratory press releases. So why is all the attention heading outside the Beltway...
Terrorism and war may be dominating the debate in Washington, but step outside the Beltway, and politicians will tell you that voters have other things on their mind. G.O.P. pollster David Winston says the group of swing voters to watch this year is the one he calls "maxed-out moms," the married women with children who were a big part of George W. Bush's re-election in 2004 but are now anxious and angry. What they want, he says, is relief from the squeeze of higher health-care bills, skyrocketing gas prices, credit-card debt, higher property taxes...
IMHO, LOL! Probable 2008 Dem presidential candidate Mark Warner holds a "virtual town hall" online. His advance team is clearly new at this: Warner's avatar, who flies onto the stage (a handy skill, considering Beltway traffic), is interrupted when--the Washington Post reports--"a large woman in a red skirt levitated out of her seat in the audience and hovered, weightless." Wow. Hillary will do anything for attention...
...hope that friendly state governments would pick up the funding slack, and indeed California's and five others' (see box) are trying to do just that. But the Golden State's initiative--widely seen as the one with the most promise--is proving that stem-cell politics outside the Beltway is no less nasty than inside...
...election to name his replacement was watched by both parties as both a crucial test of how badly Republicans are likely to fare in this fall's midterms - and of whether the Democrats' recent "culture of corruption" line of attack on Republicans was getting much traction outside the Beltway...