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State of the Day - Alaska

Alaska is a unique state that has always balanced reliance on the federal government with a very libertarian attitude. It is a diverse state that is becoming more urban, but that has quite a bit of the...

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State of the Day - Arizona

Arizona has some of the oldest communities of Native Americans, but it is also one of the nation’s fastest growing states. Its population increased 27% in the last decade. Originally, Arizona was a...

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State of the Race - 5/14/11

President Obama retains the lead this week based on a post-Osama bounce. We also see a potential Republican contender opting not to run for President, a Senator retiring and putting his seat in play,...

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State of the Day - Arkansas

Arkansas has produced more than its share of talented Democratic politicians, most notably President Bill Clinton. This is especially notable because Arkansas, though beautiful, is a small state with...

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State of the Day - California

California is the nation’s biggest state and has a little bit of everything, including all sorts of public policy problems. The state filled up fast after the discovery of gold in 1849, and continued...

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State of the Day - Colorado

Perhaps the most prominent Rocky Mountain State, Colorado has been on the cutting edge of political trends in the West. It boomed in the 1970’s on the back of oil, and became a high tech center during...

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State of the Day - Connecticut

Connecticut is the richest state, but also has pockets of poverty and declining blue collar communities. Connecticut was generally a very Republican state through the 1980’s. The state has always been...

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State of the Day - Florida

Sun, low taxes, and air conditioning have helped turn Florida from a sleepy Southern state into a mega state with decidedly non-Dixie demographics. It is known for its retirees, but over the last...

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State of the Day - Georgia

Georgia, fueled by booming Metro Atlanta, has been one of the great growth states of the past fifty years. Led by a savvy business community (think Coca-Cola) and the moral power of Martin Luther King,...

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State of the Day - Hawaii

Hawaii, essentially conquered by the United States in the 1890’s, is a geographically and culturally unique state. The state has a long history of tolerance and is very diverse: 39% Asian, 25% White,...

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State of the Day - Idaho

Idaho is one of America’s quiet boom areas. It has become a center for growing businesses and retains much of its pioneer, self sufficient spirit. The state has attracted quite a few newcomers, most of...

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State of the Day - Illinois

Illinois has a bit of everything: big city Democratic Chicago and Republican Downstate, corruption and high mindedness, political brutality and eloquence. Chicago has been one of America’s great...

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State of the Race - 5/21/11

President Obama expands his lead this week based on a continued post-Osama bounce. We also see yet another a potential Republican contender opting not to run for President, a Democratic Governor...

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State of the Day - Indiana

Indiana, a state that as much as any other lays claim to being America’s “heartland”, has been quite kind to Republicans on the Presidential level. Democrats have long managed to remain ferociously...

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State of the Day - Iowa

Iowa was settled by New England Yankees who built an ordered civil society, and for most of the nineteenth century, it remained a stronghold of Yankee Republicanism. In the twentieth and twenty-first...

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State of the Day - Kansas

Kansas joined the nation in a moment of violence, sparked by the ill-conceived Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. After the Civil War, an antislavery majority created a reliably Republican state, where...

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State of the Day - Kentucky

Kentucky is a very white state with a large rural and blue collar population that is suspicious of powerful government, much like it was when it entered the Union in 1792. While the tobacco industry is...

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State of the Day - Louisiana

Louisiana, with its charm, corruption, and horrendous public policy problems, is politically in a netherworld between the Deep South and a Latin American banana republic. The devastation caused by...

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State of the Day - Maine

Maine is historically a prototypical Yankee state but in recent years, it has shown a contrarian streak in politics with a preference for third party candidates. In the past twenty years, it has...

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State of the Day - Maryland

Maryland is and has always been a little bit of both North and South. Politically, it has produced quite a few colorful characters. It has changed over the past century from a manufacturing and fishing...

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State of the Race - 5/28/11

President Obama loses a point of his post-Osama bounce. We also see another state agree on a map for the 2012 House racesOff to the races!President Here is our weekly look at the field for the...

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State of the Day - Massachusetts

Formed in a moment of religious reform and fundamentalism, Massachusetts's role in manufacturing and overseas trade made it the early economic powerhouse of the United States. The state has a rich...

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State of the Day - Michigan

Michigan was originally frontier settled by Yankees who made the state overwhelmingly Republican through the 1920's. The state became an industrial center, first in lumber and then for automobiles,...

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Back...Better Late Than Never...

Hello all. After our coverage of the 2008 and 2010 election, real life caught up with us, and we were not able to actively blog the 2012 election. However, we are back now in a limited capacity and...

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State Poll Margins Often Incorrect

Much focus and attention has been placed on whether state polls can accurately predict what candidate will win on Tuesday. Do the polls have an accurate partisan makeup? Are other factors skewed? These...

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