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Blendon said that regardless of the classification system used to categorize different types of independent voters, the most important thing his study cemented was just how different they really...
...that moment, I really loved the U.S., regardless of Enlightenment platitudes. We may be fat, loutish, and drunk, but more than anyone we know how to have fun. There is no stern Gallic conscience telling us, “One must not make fools of ourselves in public.” If anything, Americans feel a solemn duty to make fools of themselves in public. And that, in short, is what I learned this Fourth of July...
...returns to the gate and then later takes off. It also does not include the tarmac delay times if the plane had been diverted from another airport or if the flight is ultimately cancelled, says David Smallen, a BTS spokesman. Those flights are just recorded as "diverted" or "cancelled," regardless if passengers have sat on the planes for hours, according to Smallen...
...after being delayed on an airport tarmac for two hours in January. Schmidt, who sits on the House Infrastructure and Transportation Committee, was also shocked to find the loophole. In June, she introduced a bill that would require the BTS to record tarmac delays of all flights, regardless of returns to the gate, diversions or cancellations. "I think we need to know what the true picture is of these delays, because it could be underreported by as much as 50%," says Schmidt, who adds that she can only guess at the actual number of delays...
...after six months voters across the political spectrum have lost patience waiting for specific evidence of it. Lefties are unhappy the war isn't over. Environmentalists are angry at the delayed energy bill. Unions hated the now-dead immigration bill. Seniors want their drug prices lowered. Every voter-regardless of party-wants the House ethics rules changed. "We're not satisfied with the pace of change, but we are going in a different direction than the Republican set," says Rahm Emanuel, the architect of the 2006 House takeover. "Now, we have things we have to do to both look better...