Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gephardt and Senator Joe Lieberman are bookends, of a sort. Gephardt represents the decent past - the blue-collar, Roosevelt coalition, Midwestern populist, Old Democratic Party. Lieberman represents the recent past - the high-tech, welfare-reforming, free-trading New Democratic Party. And both seem slightly irrelevant so far. Both are solid citizens, but older, less hip than their competitors; neither seems comfortable being ushered to the stage with rock music. Neither lights any fires on the stump. They are probably the two most hawkish Democrats in the race. These are not advantages with party activists at the moment...
...standing in front of the huge lightning rod of a Jesus statue is a slightly different story. Petosky was one of the many stops on my route as the Great Lakes (code name for the Midwestern states between Pennsylvania and Missouri) Research-Writer for “Lets Go: USA.” I spent the first seven weeks of my summer in one of Harvard’s most-coveted positions in one of the least-coveted places imaginable. While someone was checking out Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower, I was taking notes on this record...
Kennedy briefly sums up the plot: after the death of her mother, the end of her ballet career and her move from a quiet Midwestern town to Chicago’s South Side, there’s reason to think Sara (Stiles) might be jaded. It takes her friendship with Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas), and their mutual passion for dance, for Sara to release her sorrow and again pursue her dreams as a ballerina. In the end, they live happily ever, better and more worldly people for their love...
...right thing. And there are plenty of men who do," she says. Unlike other gun-toting officials, she doesn't swagger or puff up in unsettling circumstances. And she has no illusions about her own perfection. "Oh, boy, I have made mistakes," she says, in her flat Midwestern accent...
...Another Midwestern state that has a long tradition of Democrats opposing abortion is Missouri, where Jean Carnahan lost her race against Senator-Elect Jim Talent. Historically, there is a net benefit of approximately 80,000 votes to the candidate who opposes abortion in state-wide races in Missouri. Additionally, Senator Max Cleland (D-Ga.), a wounded Vietnam Veteran who lost three of his limbs, was defeated in a pro-military state by an opponent of abortion, Republican Rep. Saxby Chambliss...