Word: floridas
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...will probably make less this year than they did in 2008, although the government figures are not precise enough to show that. Anecdotally it is almost certainly true. Earning a higher wage with unemployment more than 10% has to be nearly impossible in some of the largest states including Florida, Michigan, and California...
...NCNA intends to take Snowe's concerns and turn them into action. Founded by Virginia Representative Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, its birth was announced on President Obama's 100th day in office with the support of GOP leaders in both chambers as well as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who both spoke on Saturday alongside Cantor. The audience consisted mainly of Washington Republican consultants and Cantor supporters who received word from his e-mail listserv. The three struck a moderate tone. "It's time for us to listen, first, to learn...
...Souter was one of the four dissenters in Bush v. Gore, the case that allowed Florida to shut down the recount in that year's presidential election. Three years later he joined the six-vote majority that struck down laws forbidding gay sex. Two years after that he upheld the right of government to seize private property to encourage economic development...
Christ, Jesus •proposed appearance of on Florida license plates being crucified in front of either the sun or an orange is defended - "If they don't want one they don't have to buy one" - by Governor Charlie Crist...
...nation's governor's seats will be up for grabs. One of the most intriguing battlegrounds will be the South, where Republicans dominate the governorships, 6-to-5. Democrats are emboldened by Barack Obama's victory last November, particularly in Southern states like Virginia, North Carolina and Florida - wins achieved partly because of high participation by those states' large black electorates, as well as the infusion of relatively affluent transplants who aren't beholden to the region's old-school political regimes. Now, of course, the Republican Party is struggling to move beyond its base of rural Southern white Protestants...