Word: blocs
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...Florida changing its primary date in violation of both GOP and Democratic Party rules). Almost 135,000 in that age group voted in the state's Republican primary. Those figures still accounted for less than 10% of all Florida primary voters, but they represented a 14% turnout for that bloc, up from a measly...
...Radio distinguishes itself from other indie outfits by unabashedly acknowledging the issues that genuinely matter without proselytizing. And the band members know that’s just what their audience wants. No, this isn’t Bloc Party on steroids. It’s just what music in the 21st century is supposed to sound like...
...nearby Jefferson and Douglas counties were wooing away Arapahoe's upwardly mobile families, two of the county's three military bases closed, taking with them conservative voters. And the immigrants who moved in to replace them and once caused the backlash that launched Tancredo have become an essential voting bloc. More than 100 different languages are now spoken in Aurora public schools, and the area boasts two Russian-language newspapers as well as half a dozen African grocery stores. "The county changed," explains Ritter, who grew up on a small wheat farm near Aurora. "Working-class families moved...
...European Union. Although NATO is no longer officially an enemy of Russia, Russia’s opposition to the NATO membership bids of Georgia and Ukraine last April suggests that it still views NATO with distrust, and that it desires to keep the remainder of its former bloc from aligning themselves with the West. By installing missiles in former Warsaw Pact states, the United States may be seen as pitting Russia’s former allies against...
...accordingly. (If anything, The View would benefit from Walters dialing down her studied neutrality even more.) Second, that you can speak truth to power and, if you have a following, power will still have to come back to reach your audience. (You could call this election's crucial swing bloc Wal-Mart moms or mortgage moms--or you could just call them fans of The View.) And finally, that a confrontational interview is not necessarily a bad one. (Similarly, Obama probably did himself more good in his combative interview with Fox's Bill O'Reilly than in his softball talk...