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...reforms are incorporated into the law, he says, while the constitutional changes must be reviewed by the next Parliament - and could be modified. "The point is, we've been fighting for honest elections - and it's honest elections we're getting now," says Svistovich. In Donetsk in the industrial heartland of the east, some 700 km from Kiev, anger about the election's annulment is still rife. Most people here voted for Yanukovych, and for nine nights running, demonstrators gathered in Lenin Square to denounce "the vile Americans who hired their vile agent Yushchenko to split Ukraine and grab...
...where does this leave us? The pragmatic solution is to throw gay people out of the party, tell women their rights just became a secondary priority, and go into the heartland with a Bible and a tax plan. And that’s why the pragmatic discussion is so limited. Social liberalism isn’t a campaign strategy we picked up for this election. Democrats believe in equal rights because we are the party of every group that has ever had to fight for respect. We know what it feels like to be second-class citizens, and we have...
...build a broad majority around progressive values. Denizens of the heartland don’t want the government to dictate their private lives. Progressives agree—that’s why we think the government has no business telling you whom you can marry or controlling your reproductive rights. Progressives believe that an equal opportunity is every child’s moral right and that we must give a helping hand to those working hard just to get by. Whether they’re struggling to make ends meet in a red state or a blue state, working Americans...
...taller skaters in the group of forwards? Tyler Magura, the 6’1 native of hockey heartland Fargo, N.D., also brings USHL experience to the front line...
...movie-star son George has helped raise money, but could Nick Clooney's celebrity be as much a liability as an asset in the race for Kentucky's conservative Fourth District? "[It's] Hollywood vs. the Heartland," business consultant Geoff Davis bellows on the stump. The charge of being an outsider doesn't stick easily to former newscaster Clooney, whose family has lived in the area for five generations. But if Davis brands him as too liberal on social issues, Clooney may feel like an outsider come Election...