Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Central Texas is a land of dry grass, live oaks and the slow, brown waters of the Trinity and the Brazos, sanctified by the likes of John Wayne and Glenn Ford. Folks there would give Bush a third term if they could; you could see it in the way Texas...
But that didn't happen much. For the first time in 40 years, an incumbent President wasn't featured at his own party's convention. Bush was beamed in antiseptically from a seemingly empty White House, a lonely guy in quarantine, for a nine-minute speech. Senator Joseph Lieberman, who...
This year Armstrong has tried to make cancer an election issue. He got Senator John McCain to attend the Livestrong Cancer Summit earlier this year. McCain, a skin-cancer survivor, committed to increasing spending but not to a specific amount. Senator Barack Obama has committed to doubling the budget for...
"What is a Democrat like me doing at a Republican convention like this?" Leiberman asked rhetorically. "I'm here to support John McCain because country matters more than party."
The first group, America's cultural conservatives, dominates the Republican convention hall, and they've adopted Palin almost overnight as their Joan of Arc. They like her uncompromising position on abortion, they like the guns in her home and the game in her freezer, and they like the way she...