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...Liam Neeson) is a straitlaced Methodist who expands his pedantic passion for insects into a fascination with the eccentricities of human beings. He leaps to fame in the same way Vladimir Nabokov did, as a decorous entomologist who shocked '50s America with a high-IQ book about sex. At Indiana University Kinsey first scandalized the academic community with lectures on sex and then with his books that itemized the frequency of masturbation among teen boys and the, shall we say, animal husbandry of farmhands...
...blindness and oral sex thought to permanently damage the uterus, Kinsey, founder of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex and the titular subject of director Bill Condon’s latest biopic, lectured with a forty-foot phallus as a visual aid in his infamous marriage course at Indiana University...
That, in turn, helped the G.O.P., which owned a 28-22 gubernatorial majority going into the election, maintain its margin. Five states (Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah and Vermont) went Republican, and five went Democratic (Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina and West Virginia), with Washington's race too close to call. But in the most closely watched and heavily bankrolled races, the G.O.P. prevailed. In Missouri Matt Blunt, the son of four-term Congressman Roy Blunt, beat state auditor Claire McCaskill; the two candidates spent a combined $7.3 million, also a likely state record. And in Utah a scion...
...Democrats want a fresh face and a candidate who can't be tagged as a liberal, they could turn to Indiana Senator Evan Bayh. A former Governor who consistently wins in a heavily Republican state, Bayh is a centrist's dream on paper. But after Kerry's defeat, Democrats may want to steer clear of nominating another Senator, even a former one like Edwards. After all, no member of Congress has won the White House since 1960. Governors have fared much better. For that reason, expect New Mexico's Bill Richardson, Iowa's Tom Vilsack and Pennsylvania's Ed Rendell...
...Texas ?11 Missouri ?10 Arizona ? 9 Colorado ? 6 Arkansas ? 5 West Virginia ?15 North Carolina ?15 Georgia ?13 Virginia ?11 Tennessee ?11 Indiana ? 9 Alabama ? 9 Louisiana ? 8 Kentucky ? 8 South Carolina ? 7 Oklahoma ? 6 Kansas ? 6 Mississippi ? 5 Nebraska ? 5 Utah ? 4 Idaho ? 3 Alaska ? 3 Montana ? 3 North Dakota ? 3 South Dakota ? 3 Wyoming ?20 Ohio ?27 Florida ? 5 Nevada Close calls