Word: pennsylvania
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...half looking at results from the primaries, gazing at red and blue maps, sitting through every debate and convention speech, and worshipping Nate Silver. Since freshman fall I have been engaging in dinner table discussions with all my American friends, talking about the working-class white vote in Pennsylvania as though I grew up in Scranton...
...since all three companies are already so deep in debt (GM alone owes $48 billion). To that end, the GOP wants a change in leadership at all three companies. "I have yet to see any semblance of a plan for General Motors to become viable," Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said on the Senate floor. "General Motors and the auto industry have been on notice for a long time that they were in a very difficult, competitive situation...
...Rush Holt waited six months into the Senate session before being old enough to enter. There are more recent examples in local politics: In 2005, a high school senior was elected mayor of a town of 9,000. The same year, two University of Pennsylvania students were elected mayors of small towns outside Pittsburgh. Sievers, for her part, not only attained a county position but also gathered an impressive 21,000 votes. Sievers’s opponent—who was ousted after three consecutive terms—was quick to declare that “brainwashed college kids?...
...threatening to topple at least one of them. Adelson's company, Las Vegas Sands, has undertaken an aggressive expansion plan over the past few years, winning the bid to build the $4.6 billion Marina Bay Sands casino-resort in Singapore and developing a $743 million casino-resort in Pennsylvania, among other projects. The credit crisis has left the overextended company in danger of defaulting on $5.2 billion of loans secured by its Las Vegas operations. Last week, the company said it would work towards completing the Marina Bay site, but Singapore's government is making backup plans to enact...
...chief of staff and Chicago native John Podesta as his transition chief, as well as the news that his Chicago-based campaign senior strategist, David Axelrod, will be a White House adviser, has only fueled grumblings that machine-style patronage politics is on its way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...