Word: connecticut
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...takes a historical tour of the scenes of three presidential assassinations. She is now writing a book on the history of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the Puritan squabbling between John Winthrop, Roger Williams, and Anne Hutchinson that resulted in the founding of Rhode Island and Connecticut. “Do they tell you when they’re indoctrinating you in Harvard history that your school was founded because a bunch of poor Massachusetts boys were outsmarted by a girl and didn’t want it to happen again?” she says...
...looking forward to moving beyond it because we get to states in smaller bite-sizes, two or three in a day." Obama could savor his big win in his home state of Illinois - since it was once Clinton's home state as well - as well as in Connecticut, Delaware and Utah. Once again, younger and more affluent voters provided the core of his support, along with African Americans, whom he won by an 8-1 margin. He won 70% of the half of Democrats who told pollsters they were looking for change; a quarter of respondents said they favored experience...
...Still, McCain could feel some big gusts of wind at his back as the large, winner-take- all states began to report: he gained more delegates just from New York than he has won in total in all the races to date. He also carried New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois and Oklahoma, finally proving he can win more than 40% of the Republican vote, which going into Super Tuesday he had yet to manage in a party still ambivalent about the road forward...
...CONNECTICUT After losing New Hampshire, he can't assume support from neighbors...
...even if we assume everyone contends for the trove of G.O.P. delegates at play in California, which is not a winner-take-all state. Let's imagine for a minute that Rudy Giuliani concentrates his efforts on four winner-take-all-states in his backyard: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Delaware. If he won those states and (for discussion's sake) one quarter of California's congressional districts, he would take home about 343 delegates...