Word: ruralism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Obama's itinerary this past week has ignored John McCain's attempts to flip blue-leaning Pennsylvania and instead focused on former GOP strongholds, such as southern Virginia, the dusty suburbs of Las Vegas and the rural southwestern corner of Missouri. Obama's closing strategy to win these Red states focuses on exurban and rapidly growing areas. He's not looking for victories in these counties, merely to improve his showing there enough to put him over the top in the state when added to record turnout in Democratic-heavy areas. "Like in Jacksonville [Florida, where Obama heads on Monday...
...video on Economy and Politics in Rural Ohio. See pictures of John McCain's final push. See pictures of Barack Obama's home stretch...
...October over a draft plan requiring that low-pressure shower heads be installed in new homes over a specified size, a trifle in itself but part of a wider narrative broadcast by anti-Clark forces that New Zealand has become a nanny state. It's a perception strongest in rural areas, where many farmers feel suffocated by bureaucracy. Sometimes, their grievances sound more like longing for a bygone era, when farmhands weren't glued to their mobiles and trampers couldn't expect a payout for injuring themselves on private land. But it's also a case of where there...
...blasts began at about 11 a.m. local time in Assam, a mainly rural state best known for its tea plantations. Three of them were car bombs set off in its capital and largest city, Guwahati, according to R.N. Mathur, the state's director general of police. Those blasts did the most damage, killing 31 and injuring 147. The remaining six blasts hit smaller towns in lower Assam, near the Bangladesh border, and were smaller in scale, using explosives left on bicycles and motorbikes. Two of the bombs in Guwahati were set off near government targets: a police station, the office...
...this campaign and this state that is unlike any before it - race. During the seemingly endless primary campaign here last spring, Rendell, a Clinton supporter, drew criticism when he said "some whites are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate." Congressman John Murtha, who represents a rural swath of Western Pennsylvania, put it even more bluntly earlier this month when he called his region "racist" in an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The veteran Democrat later backed off just a bit, noting that the district used to be "really redneck...