Word: gaps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hopkins says the Bradley effect-which he calls the "Wilder effect," after the Virginia governor-did exist, but petered out when racially charged issues were elbowed away from the political forefront: "As racialized rhetoric about welfare and crime receded from national prominence in the mid-1990s, so did the gap between polling and performance...
...only stable thing in American today is the presidential race. During one of the most dramatic months in our economic history - and during four widely watched debates - the markets have plunged and bungeed. Bill Ayers and Sarah Palin and a dozen other minidramas flared and guttered. And the gap remains steady between the man who dominates the discussion and the man who wants to shake...
...fatigue from refighting old battles over school integration and affirmative action, even the rise of politicians like Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick point to a shift in the disposition of black America. The big issues of the day aren't so much racial profiling and police brutality as the achievement gap, the incarceration rate and unemployment. The great race conversation has not only decreased in volume; for black people, it's also become much more introverted. At this moment, black America is in the grips of a kind of barbershop conservatism that is more concerned with its own progress than with...
...Maybe I’m still bitter about a past jeans-related incident when, as a happy little kindergartner skipping around in elastic waist banded leggings, I snuck into my older sister’s room to try on her new pair of super-slim-fit jeans from the Gap. Long story short, the jeans didn’t fit. An unfortunate combination of baby fat and stiff denim left me sulking in my stretchy spandex. Fifteen years later, I’m still wearing leggings. In fact, in my rebellious refusal to wear jeans at all last year, spandex...
Substance: Delved only occasionally into specifics when describing his agenda, focusing on spending and tax cuts. He had a bit of trouble elucidating his health-care and energy policies and did little to close the gap with Obama on whom voters trust to deal with the economy...