Word: bluest
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...With that as our historic backdrop, I suggest that political commentators sit back, take a deep breath and relax. The Republican Party will not be leaving the political arena anytime soon. Take a quick look at Senate races in three of the bluest of blue states: polls show that in Connecticut, New York and Illinois, Republican challengers are handily ahead of Democratic incumbents, despite the fact that President Barack Obama won those states last year by an average of 25%. If history is any guide, Republicans will also pick up House seats in 2010. (Read "GOP Senator Specter's Party...
...think that young black females are dealing with the same self-acceptance issues today as your character was in The Bluest Eye? -Francesca Siad, Calgary, Alta.No, not at all. When I wrote the book, the young women who read it liked it [but] were unhappy because I had sort of exposed an area of shame. Nowadays I find young African-American women much more complete. They seem to have a confidence that they take for granted...
Pennsylvania is a swing state not because of a moderate disposition (it's no Iowa or New Mexico) but because it encompasses the incongruities of American society, from the bluest of blue-blooded aristocrats on Philadelphia's Main Line to the bluest of blue-collar guys in the bars of Aliquippa. It's urban; it's rural. It's the Mellon Bank; it's the United Mine Workers. It's Swarthmore; it's South Philly. It's Andy Warhol; it's Joe Paterno. In the Republic's early days, someone dubbed Pennsylvania the Keystone State because it was the place...
...just the Election Day jitters of a political class that has had too much caffeine and not enough sleep, but as the final hours tick down before polls start closing across the country, the biggest private worry among Democratic operatives is about their prospects in one of the bluest of blue states: Maryland. That's ironic in a year that has been so bad for Republicans almost everywhere else. But where most of the other key Senate races appear to be trending the Democrats' way, key officials say a last-minute surge by Maryland's Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele...
...failed attempt to recruit Margaret Truman. The next year, the paper printed the Pudding’s 1950 letter begging the pleasure of Sharman Douglas’ company, advising the young socialite that the “well-bred” from Harvard’s “bluest-blooded band” had “more pep and flavor” than the British men she had been dating...