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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...losing states - although no state actually lost population, for the first census ever - are mostly blue. New York and Pennsylvania will lose two seats each, and Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin each lose one, along with Bush winners Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, and Oklahoma...
...Census Bureau announced Thursday that the population of the United States is up to 281,421,906, some 33 million more than in 1990. And with population figures determining the how the 435 House seats (and electoral college votes) are apportioned to each state, it will cheer Republicans to hear that most of America's population gains are in the states that November painted...
...Bush's home state of Texas is now the nation's second-most populous, supplanting Democratic stronghold New York. Implications: If the election were held all over again - perish the thought - and Bush won exactly the same states, he would win the electoral college 278-260, rather than 271-267. And House Republicans would have a 16-seat majority instead of nine...
...Situation Report: The Oslo Peace process has essentially collapsed, and Israel and the Palestinians now coexist in a state of low-intensity warfare, even if their leaders continue to discuss the hypotheticals of peace. The breakdown that began with Camp David may have set the peace process back years, and Israel appears poised to elect another right-wing government committed to hitting the rewind button while Palestinian public opinion hardens against compromises with Israel. Moreover, the moderate Arab regimes on which Washington has traditionally relied to provide political cover for Arafat are themselves under increasing domestic pressure to distance themselves...
...Situation Report: Once the most dangerous among the "rogue" nations in Washington?s gallery, the archaic Stalinist state is desperate to come in from the cold - if only to stave off mass starvation and economic collapse. And in its efforts to rejoin the real world, the North Koreans have the all-important support of South Korea, which is, after all, the state that those 40,000 U.S. troops are on the Korean peninsula to protect. But then there's the little matter of Pyongyang's missile program, which has long been the centerpiece of arguments for the National Missile Defense...