
Source: Human Events
People are tired of "red-versus-blue" partisanship and bickering.
Across America, people say they are tired of negative campaigns, bitter partisan arguments and gridlock in Washington with nothing substantive getting done.

Source: EVERYDAY CITIZEN www.everydaycitizen.com
Mince up your fresh thyme and sprinkle on the tomatoes. If you like pepper, generously sprinkle fresh ground pepper over them too. Now top your tomatoes with slices of garlic cloves.

Source: OneNewsNow.com
The Washington Post recently reported that while the Bush administration and Congress sit gridlocked on an immigration overhaul, the states are jumping into the debate as never before.

The 2000 Presidential election remains crisp in my sometimes-failing memory. Of course, the controversy over G.W. Bush's electoral college (and, some might say, Supreme Court-handed) victory over Al Gore is the primary reason.
Source: CNET News.com
Finally a news outlet covering the differences between Democrats and Republicans on an important issue like seatbelts on grocery carts.
Won't someone think of the children?

Source: Brown Daily Herald
The Brown Daily Herald reports today on the upcoming debut of "Blue State Coffee", a coffee house for liberal values and people that love them, slated to open its doors in Providence's trendy and student-oriented East Side in May or June.

Source: politicalarithmetik.blogspot.com
Democrats gained an average of 3.4% and Republicans lost 3.0% in partisan identification between 2005 and 2006, according to a new Gallup estimate based on over 30,000 interviews conducted throughout 2006.

Source: The Nation
The last thing my daddy wanted to do on a fine crisp fall Saturday in 1972, he made quite clear, was drive forty-five minutes in traffic just to hear "a bunch of Republicans yammering their rich man's nonsense." But I begged and whined until he caved.

Source: ABC News
Children living in red states — those in which a majority of the citizens voted Republican in the 2004 presidential election — may be worse off in terms of health than those living in states that voted Democrat, according to a new book.

Source: simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com
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No wonder the Red States support this war and this moron in the White House: they have very little skin in the game, relatively speaking.

Source: The Washington Post

Source: The Latest From VanityFair.com
The red states may be more churchgoing than the blue states, but they're no strangers to Peyton Place.

Source: Kid Oakland
At Blue Jersey local blogger JRB has an excellent piece documenting just how in bed with the GOP the press can be.

Source: wweek.com
From the article:
The May primary election hit Kevin Looper like a head-butt.
Looper, 36, is a genial, grizzly-sized political consultant who moved to Portland six years ago and is now perhaps the state's top voter-turnout guru.

Source: mydd.com
Good news, hopefully anyways.

Source: The Washington Post
Blue & Red states no more, now it's "Pink" and "Light Blue" as Bush's popularity dips deeper than 14 year-old at a school dance.