Word: midwest
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...Force, I appreciated Senator Obama's comment on our military mission: "We still have the most valuable possible resource to get the job done - and that's our men and women in uniform." That statement makes him qualified in my mind to be the Commander in Chief. Sid Howard, Midwest City, Okla...
...capacity built into the northeastern grid - and more things went wrong. First Energy, which was responsible for powering northern Ohio, should have detected the loss of that first line, but its energy management system wasn't working at the time (the company didn't know that). Higher up, the Midwest Independent System Operator's state estimator, which helps ensure reliability for several utility companies in the region, had just been taken down for troubleshooting that day, and wasn't fully back online yet, so operators were unable to get an accurate, real-time picture of what was happening...
...military mission: "We still have the most valuable possible resource to get the job done - and that's our men and women in uniform." That statement, if he keeps it at the forefront, makes him qualified in my mind to be the Commander in Chief. Sid Howard, Midwest City, Oklahoma...
...Obama's response when speaking of the military mission before us: "We still have the most valuable possible resource to get the job done--and that's our men and women in uniform." That statement makes him qualified in my mind to be Commander in Chief. Sid Howard, MIDWEST CITY, OKLA...
...some battleground states for which new registrations by party are available, there is a comparable shift underway. Iowa, the most important swing state in the upper Midwest, has seen Democratic registration grow by about 68,000 since 2004 while Republican registration has dropped by nearly 27,000. (Bush won the state by about 10,000 votes in 2004.) In New Hampshire, which Kerry won in 2004 by about 9,000 votes, Democratic registration is up by 35,000 while new Republican voters number less than 2000. In Nevada, which Bush won by 21,000, Democrats have enrolled...