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...Which is a great pity. Partly that is because of the political calendar. I’ve visited Iowa more times than I care to mention, and have at least touched on most of its 99 counties....
...Idaho’s state capital, Boise, and Nashville, Tennessee are among the safest. Such forecasts provide an insight into likely migration patterns within the US in the second half of this century....
...Mr Vance's office recently subpoenaed the towns of Bedford and North Castle in Westchester County for tax assessments and other documents related to an estate known as Seven Springs, which Mr Trump bought...
...In 1824, the election ended in a tie, with the House of Representatives choosing the president, and the 1876 vote was disputed in several states, leading to a political crisis resolved just days before inauguration...
...However, despite those punitive measures and the aggressive messaging coming out of the White House, many of the states and counties that came out for Trump in 2016 have spent the past few years gorging...
...Marsha Blackburn was elected the first female senator to represent Tennessee, while Young Kim, a Republican House candidate in California’s Orange County, held a slim lead as she sought to become the first...
...Republican governor hangs on to Tennessee Bill Lee of the GOP has been elected as the next governor of Tennessee, notching up a win in a solidly Republican state....
...“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future,” she says. What most appeals to her about Trump is that he talks without a trace of political correctness. He calls things the way he sees them....
...As well as being a small-farm owner, he talks about getting his first shotgun at the age of six when he and his six brothers shared the attic of a log cabin in rural Tennessee....
...We focused on the 2412 counties with a population of at least 10,000 people, which represents about 98.8 per cent of the total population of the 50 US states....
...Bill Clinton, a native southerner, did well — at least for a Democrat — among southern states, winning Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, and Tennessee in 1992....
...Trump score: 5 — Rural darling of the anti-elite Joe Arpaio , 84.The six-term sheriff of Phoenix’s Maricopa County, a brutal opponent of illegal immigration, was ousted by voters in a November race that...
...This is the first presidential election since the Supreme Court, by a 5-4 majority, deprived the electorate of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the one aimed at preventing states and counties...
...Half a dozen vehicles, ours among them, were parked at the rim of a gorge in the “Primitive Camping” area of Goosenecks state park, looking like some lost band from a bleak scene in a post-apocalyptic movie...
...political left and the libertarian right....
...A Financial Times analysis of data culled from a 2010 US census report found that the automatic cuts are being felt most in counties with military communities....
...out on a journey through the county on his doorstep....
...The representative of the eighth congressional district of Tennessee proved to be an interesting guy: a singer of gospel music, a farmer and a symbol of so many of the House members who opposed helping the...
...It is a similar tale in Prince George’s County, Maryland, or Nassau County, New York. Most of the good jobs are too far away or too expensive to reach. But this is where you can afford to live....
...Also in the Hoosier state, Vigo County (see 19.04), has tallied all its votes....
...As Ion Sancho, who has supervised elections in Leon County for 24 years, put it: “You are more likely to walk out of your office and get hit by a bolt of lightning.”...
...On Super Tuesday, he won Ohio, Virginia, Massachusetts, Vermont, Idaho and Alaska, but Mr Santorum won three states – Tennessee, Oklahoma and North Dakota – and came within a point of taking Ohio....
...“The municipalities are subdivisions of the state, not separate entities. The state is, in essence, their parent,” said Jim Spiotto, a partner at Chapman and Cutler....
...One of the most famous legal fights over the latter was the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial”, in which a Tennessee biology teacher, John Scopes, taught evolution in violation of state law....
...We are at the intersection of a lot of different political thinking in this country and I think it is better to let other people talk about their ideas first....
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