Word: colorado
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Coming into the game, Clarkson was ranked No. 16 and had previously tied the No. 1 team in the country, Colorado College, twice...At the end of the game a Clarkson bagpipe player added humiliation to defeat as he played a funeral march as the fans filed out of the arena...
...Colorado voters on Tuesday rejected Amendment 48, which would have defined a "person" from the point of egg fertilization. If the measure had passed, Colorado would have become the first state to grant full constitutional rights to a fertilized egg. The potentially far-reaching ramifications of such a decision divided the anti-abortion community, and the amendment lost endorsements from prominent activists who felt the personhood definition went too far. The amendment was defeated nearly...
...measure to ban affirmative action in Colorado was trailing by just 0.1% of the vote Wednesday morning and the final decision is still too close to call. Some progressive groups have derided the measure and questioned whether it was accurately represented as a "Civil Rights Initiative." Led by Ward Connerly, an African-American management consultant and former regent at the University of California, Colorado's Amendment 46 follows similar efforts by the activist that have passed in California, Washington and Michigan. Connerly has hailed Barack Obama's political success as evidence that affirmative action is outdated...
...Democrats did knock off a few fire-breathing right-wing targets: wacky Bill Sali of Idaho, who protested a minimum-wage hike by introducing a bill to repeal the law of gravity; Marilyn Musgrave of Colorado, who once declared gay marriage the greatest threat to America; Tom Feeney of Florida, an escapee from the Abramoff scandal; and Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, who ran ads calling her Christian opponent "godless." They also defeated some impressive Republicans who could have helped lead the party out of the wilderness, like moderate Congressman Christopher Shays of Connecticut, conservative Senator John Sununu...
...Catholics, 66% of Latinos, 68% of new voters - a multicultural, multigenerational movement that shatters the old political ice pack. He let loose a deep blue wave that washed well past the coasts and the college towns, into the South through Virginia and Florida, the Mountain West with Colorado and New Mexico, into the Ohio Valley and the Midwestern battlegrounds: you could almost walk from Maine to Minnesota without getting your feet wet in a red state. After months of mapmaking all the roads to 270, Obama tore right past with ease...