Keyword: redzone
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Porter Township in northwestern Pennsylvania was an unlikely hotbed for an anti-corporate uprising. The tiny rural community about an hour north of Pittsburgh has a population of only 1500 people, many of whom are staunch Republicans with deeply-held conservative values. But after the Alcosan Corporation, a Pennsylvania sewage-sludge hauler, threatened to sue Porter Township in 2002 for passing a local ordinance regulating the dumping of sludge in their community, town officials decided that their citizens had taken enough crap from corporations. Literally. So on December 9, 2002, Porter became the first municipality in the United States to pass a law...
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Santa Rosa, Florida – A wanderer from one of Europe's dim corners reached Jim Anders's office, plunked down on a couch and asked the chairman of the Walton County Republican Party for the Light as seen on the Red Neck Riviera. Anders, who mixes politics with the real estate business, seemed to search for a buyer-appropriate parable. "Remember Neville Chamberlain being nice to Hitler?" he asked cautiously. Yes, responded the congregation of one. "Well," Anders said, "if you remember what happened, the lesson is we can't be nice to everybody who makes clear they want to hurt us. To me,...
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Uncaring, fundamentalist, extreme: it is easy to caricature the followers of George W Bush. But on the eve of the Republican Convention, a journey to the core of conservative America reveals 'those others' are not what they first appear It wasn't until the Dodge Durango reached 9,000 feet that Radio KRKS, Denver Christian Radio, finally gave up the Holy Ghost. For 90 miles up Interstate 70, past the Coors Brewery, Buffalo Bill's grave and into the mountains, I had been listening to Pastor Rod and Rocky's prayer show. 'The spirit,' said Pastor Rod, 'is already moving a number of you...
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"Retro" vs. "Metro" America If you are pro-life, support freedom of Christian expression, believe pornography is harmful and should be restricted, oppose usurious progressive taxation, believe in school choice, and vote mainly Republican, then you are part of Retro America, according to The Great Divide: Retro Vs. Metro America, a new book by John Sperling. The Great Divide is billed as "a blueprint for how the Democratic Party can regain, and maintain, control of the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives." Mr. Sperling, founder of the University of Phoenix, believes that conservative voters with traditional values are a millstone...
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MISSOULA, Mont. — Sitting among the prized huckleberry jams and manicured hogs of the Western Montana State Fair, the lone representative of the Democratic Party tried to blend in. With his jeans and rawhide face, Geoff Badenoch certainly looked the part. And as a native of Glendive, in the wind-seared ranching country of eastern Montana, he talked the part. But there was the matter of that scarlet D attached to his booth. It made him stick out like someone eating corn on the cob with a fork. As one of the poorest states in the country with a long tradition...
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Bush Sees Fertile Soil in 'Exurbia' GOP strategists believe they can win many new voters in outlying towns rich with conservatives. By Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writer LEBANON, Ohio — Tom Grossman parks his blue convertible at a home expo center and walks through the maze of booths hawking the necessities of upscale living: home security systems, Jacuzzi tubs, fancy kitchen fixtures and wooden blinds. Then he settles into a booth of his own. But Grossman has not come to Chestnut Hill, one of southwestern Ohio's newest subdivisions, to peddle home furnishings. He has come to hunt new Republican voters....
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"/> July 2, 2004 Bush and Kerry Vie for Support of Rural VotersBy ROBIN TONER LOQUET, Minn., July 1 — Four years ago, George W. Bush won some of his biggest and most decisive margins among rural and small-town voters. But Democrats say economic troubles and the war in Iraq have taken a disproportionate toll on rural communities. They vow that the struggle for these voters will be — must be — far more competitive this time around. So Senator John Kerry will come on Friday to Cloquet, not far from Duluth, and kick...
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BEVERLY HILLS -- I have followed elections pretty closely for many decades now, and I think I have a clue about why George W. Bush, for all of his problems in Iraq, still has a fine chance to win this election. For about ten years now, I have been going to North Idaho, a mountainous, heavily forested region in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, adjacent to Canada, to vacation, ride in my little motor boat, ride my bicycle by the lakes and rivers, and just to be in a beautiful setting far from the pitiless freeways and snarling traffic...
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It was a late Monday night last month in Husaybah, Iraq, and the usual handful of Marines had settled down in their brick and tin building around an Army green cot for what had become a near nightly diversion - a game of cards, spades, to be specific. --snip-- So far, 46 percent of the 798 Americans killed in the war as of May 26 have come from small towns outside of metropolitan areas, according to an analysis by the Post-Dispatch of military and U.S. Census statistics. For the analysis, "small towns" were defined as those of less than 40,000...
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W. AMONG THE REDS. . . . Are the "red states" in jeopardy for Bush?. . . . 05/27 09:13 AM It's early, and polls can be deceiving. But right now, George W. Bush is in tough shape. A CBS poll late last week found Bush's job-approval rating at 41 percent, the lowest of his presidency; 61 percent of respondents said they disapprove of his handling of Iraq and 65 percent believe the country is on the wrong track. The poll surveyed 1,113 adults (not likely voters, not registered voters), but a Gallup poll of 1,002 Americans conducted almost simultaneously...
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Candidates are needed In the media coverage of the Kootenai County elections, I keep reading about the lack of Democratic candidates. According to reports, some of the district races will be decided in the Republican primary due to the fact that no Democrat is running. What a bunch of wimps! I mean, come on Dems. Weren't you taught that "it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game"? Now if you don't know what that old adage means, I'll translate. IT MEANS YOU'RE A BUNCH OF WIMPS! You don't take your ball and go home just...
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Why Dems Wanted Military Ballots Not to Count in 2000 From The State. Excerpt: Another benefit of an all-volunteer military is that it saves taxpayers money; there's less turnover as troops stay in for longer periods. During the Vietnam War, the average tour of duty was less than two years, according to a Defense Department study. Today, the average tour is about seven years. But critics fret the United States is developing an all-volunteer warrior class recruited from the nation's more politically conservative areas. Between 1976 and 1996, for instance, the percentage of military officers who said they were either...
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We want information and we want it now. At least that's what federal and state agencies are telling us - and have been telling us since the public introduction of high-speed technology and the Internet a mere 13 years ago. Even the top three democratic presidential candidates came to Wisconsin's primary this week with promises to bring broadband Internet to rural America. "Broadband deployment is a major communications policy objective in America today," Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said last month at an FCC Rural Satellite Forum. "I place a high priority on ensuring that Americans living...
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Released: February 18, 2004 Bush Leads in Red States, Kerry Ahead in Blue States Voters Hardened on the Economy, War, Gays Marriage A new poll conducted by Zogby International for The O’Leary Report and Southern Methodist University’s John Tower Center from February 12-15, 2004 of 1,209 likely voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points found that if the election for president were held today, Democrat John Kerry would edge George W. Bush 46% to 45% in the “blue states” – or states won by Al Gore in the 2000 election. In the “red states,” or states...
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One of the nation’s newest and fastest-growing TV news networks says it's tired of left-leaning news reporting and wants to offer Americans a fair and balanced perspective, just as Fox News Channel does. Fox News eschewed politically correct news to become the dominant force on cable news. And now the Sinclair Broadcast Group has been following in Fox's footsteps to do the same for broadcast news in news markets across the nation. The Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG) is the eighth-largest network of television stations, based on revenues, and the nation's largest independent group owner of stations, according to Broadcasting &...
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WASHINGTON -- Avery Pough's parents moved from South Carolina to Queens, N.Y., before he was born, part of a black exodus from the segregationist South. In 1999, Pough and his wife returned to his roots, drawn by relatives, the promise of good jobs and a middle-class suburban house that they bought in Spartanburg, S.C."I just wanted a little bit more than making money and paying someone else's mortgage -- a better life for me and my family," said Pough, 47, a father of two.Black history is reversing itself in the South. Hundreds of thousands of blacks like Pough flowed into...
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At this early stage of the 2004 presidential contest, some believe that recent events in Iraq -- especially the capture of Saddam Hussein -- coupled with signs of a more robust economy and a booming stock market are sure indicators that President George W. Bush easily win reelection. Democratic voters in the early contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina appear to agree with this assessment. According to Zogby International polls taken in these states throughout 2003, three of five people surveyed have consistently believed that Bush will be reelected. Some analysts have even former Gov. Howard Dean (D-Vt.)...
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For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. A recent analysis of casino gambling´s economic impact in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis district, which includes Arkansas, suggests that rural counties could gain in household and payroll employment by allowing casinos. But the study by economist Thomas A. Garrett that appears in the January/February issue of Review also said the origin and skill level of the work force could have a major influence on a casino´s economic impact. Two of the six counties studied in the analysis are Tunica and Warren counties in Mississippi, the counties that include...
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It's not your Faulkner's South, sociologist says By Art Jester HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER There comes the famous moment in William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom! (1936) when Mississippi's Quentin Compson is asked by Shreve McCannon, his Canadian roommate at Harvard, to tell about the South, its people and how they live. The fictional response that Faulkner spun out bore a certain truth for his time, and even today. But his saga doesn't -- it couldn't -- include the massive transformation of the nation's most bedeviled and enchanting region over the last 40 years. Why, if Mr. Bill Faulkner had been in...
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The O'Leary Report /Zogby International poll of Red States (those that voted for George W. Bush in 2000) and Blues States (those that supported Al Gore) reveals a nation deeply divided by party, ideology, the presidency of George W. Bush, and values. The survey was conducted by Zogby International commissioned by the O'Leary Report. Polling of 1,200 likely voters was conducted December 15-17, 2003 from Zogby's headquarters in Utica, NY. The margin of error is +/- 3 percentage points. Slight weights were added to more accurately reflect the voting population. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups. The poll reveals...
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