Word: suburbanity
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...call. “We just got home and there was a message from a guy named Marty,” my Dad said. “He found your wallet.” The next thing I knew, I was knocking on a door in suburban New Jersey. Out came a smiling man who glowed with warmth in the brisk night air. “You must be Adam!” he exclaimed as he squeezed my hand, “Come in!” I felt like I was being invited into the house...
...Even though his image, fundraising and lead in the polls slowly unraveled over the past several months, pundits still thought the 45-year-old Georgia native had a chance to make it a close race. But when the disappointing results from suburban Cobb County, a crucial conservative Republican stronghold for Reed, came in less than three hours after the polls closed, Reed conceded, already facing a 56% to 44% deficit with less than half the precincts counted...
...Federal prosecutors say vaunted State department Asia hand Donald Keyser sent Cheng long e-mails detailing his "conversations with Chinese president Jiang" in Texas. At some point prosecutors say, the spy became his lover and Keyser was caught lying to hide the affair--and hoarding classified documents in his suburban Washington home. Facing kail and with his marriage threatened, Keyser cut a deal, promising to tell all he knew about Taiwan's intelligence operations. But then the tale of the diplomat, his spook paramour and his wife--also a spy--got even weirder...
...Only around one-fifth of Americans oppose federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, for example. But they are, by and large, active Republican base voters who are already alienated and threatening to withhold support from Republicans this fall. The majority of suburban voters support the promise of stem cell research that might cure their parents' Alzheimer's disease or their kids' diabetes. The measure that passed today would be popular with them; its expected failure will please the base at their expense...
...recent weeks the House leadership has bypassed a raft of issues aimed at building support among suburban voters in favor of pushing for "values agenda" items, like penalizing online gambling, a gay marriage ban and an upcoming vote on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance from certain kinds of judicial action. Illinois Republican Mark Kirk, head of a GOP centrist group in the House, argues that suburban voters are crucial to the long-term growth of the party, and has put forward a centrist, "suburban agenda" aimed at drawing them in. But elements of the agenda - like anti-sprawl legislation, which...