Word: midwesternizing
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...because of a failure of the democratic process, because of the influence of a hugely powerful special interest group on national politics. Despite significant popular support (a July study by the Consumer Federation of America and the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence found that 72 percent of Midwestern voters, as well as 81 percent of likely voters in Florida, support the ban), despite support from notable police chiefs nationwide, and despite President Bush’s own public backing for the ban, the Republican Congress has refused to allow a vote on a bill which would extend...
...muse Robert Smigel kept a tight grip on his charge—the puppet never left his arm. Smigel, a longtime “Saturday Night Live” writer and co-creator of “The Ambiguously Gay Duo,” had collected a few Midwestern guests to speak with him about the demographics of the convention...
...smoking rules. Triumph’s muse Robert Smigel kept a tight grip on his charge—the puppet never left his arm. Smigel, a longtime Saturday Night Live writer and co-creator of “The Ambiguously Gay Duo,” had collected a few Midwestern guests to speak with him about the demographics of the convention...
Kerry's was not the only campaign whose plans had been jolted that weekend. When the information reached President Bush two days earlier, he had been in almost the same position, launching what was supposed to have been a feel-good Midwestern bus tour focused on domestic politics. Even as Bush went from rally to rally, claiming achievements in education, health care and the economy, his thoughts were on the scary information that was pouring into the White House situation room. "It's hair raising," the President privately told an adviser aboard his campaign bus as it rolled between stops...
...Mazzoleni never approached anything resembling the prototypical “Harvard Guy,” and his Midwestern attitude and coaching philosophy was a constant irritant to a circle of players, parents and alums, many of whom became his—if not vocal—certainly well-heard critics...