One third of the people in West Virginia are fat. It’s the most obese state of all, by the measure of the Gallup organization and Healthways. Coloradans are the least likely in the nation to be obese — theirs is...
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Women in New York City.
National Obesity Index: 26.2%
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The Washington monument stands as pedestrians walk ahead of the presidential inauguration in Washington, DC.
Washington’s Economic Confidence No. 1
Who says Washington is dysfunctional? Washington is downright happy with the way things are going. Of all the places where the Gallup organization has polled people about their confidence in the economy, Washington, D.C., stands out as most confident. The...
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A nice way to celebrate the New Year for the President was to jump in the ocean in his native state of Hawaii. He was on his annual Christmas vacation with family and friends, and went swimming at Pyramid Rock Beach in Kaneohe Bay.
Washington, Hawaii: Obama, Thumbs Up — Utah, Wyoming, Thumbs Down
Where is President Barack Obama most popular? In Washington, D.C., and in his birth state of Hawaii. Where is the Democrat least popular? In the mountain states of Utah and Wyoming, and also Sarah Palin’s home state of Alaska. It...
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Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, a five-term member of the Senate, will retire in 2014.
Harkin Retiring: ‘Somebody Else’s Turn’
Updated at 5 pm EST Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa will not seek another term in 2014. The five-term Democrat and nearly four-decade veteran of Congress is the second fixture of his party in the Senate to announce his retirement...
Read more »West Virginia Republicans Look to End Losing Streak Post-Rockefeller
Senator Jay Rockefeller’s retirement at the end of 2014 gives West Virginia Republicans an opportunity to end one of their party’s longest losing streaks. Republicans have lost 21 consecutive Senate races in West Virginia, spanning more than half a century. That includes...
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A customer purchases an AK-47 style rifle for about $1200 at a sporting goods store on Dec. 17, 2012 in Tinley Park, Illinois.
Obama: `Weapon of War’ Has No Place in American Communities
A “weapon of war” — President Barack Obama’s term today for the semi-automatic assault rifle used in the slaying of schoolchildren and educators in Newtown, Connecticut, a weapon that he is urging Congress to ban. The president, vowing that he...
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Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, questions witnesses during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in this file photo.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 56
That’s how many years it’s been since West Virginia elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate. It’s the longest such drought for Republicans in the nation. The last West Virginia Republican to win a Senate race was Chapman Revercomb, whose...
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Representative Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican from West Virginia, right, and Representative Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat from New York, left, talk to Lance Auer, deputy assistant secretary for financial institutions with the U.S. Treasury, prior to a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing in Washington.
Capito in 2005: West Virginia Senator ‘Pretty Cool Job’
Representative Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican who announced today that she will run for the Senate in 2014, said seven years ago that being a senator “looks like a pretty cool job.” Capito, who won a seventh House...
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People celebrate in front of the White House on Nov. 7, 2012.
Reddest Reds, Bluest Blues: Obama-Romney Contest
Now that we’ve left behind the obsessive coverage and minute slicing-and-dicing of the swing states that constituted the end-all and be-all of the 2012 presidential election, we were left wondering: Where did the landslides occur? Defining that as any place where one of...
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Manchin’s Hair Cut: `He’s Cheap’
In case anyone was wondering what political campaign ads look like in places where there is no contest, outside the world of swing-state 90 percent negativity, take a moment to drop in on the Manchins of West Virginia. Democrat Joe...
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