Telegram. We all look forward to learning more about the 11 arrival regions in the country which will no doubt lead to later understanding of the current president ial campaign. Me enjoy meg in love coming colin woodard. [applause] mr. Woodard thank you all think ill of you for coming. Especially as we are entering campaign season. Is about north american regionalism, and of vital importance in place in understanding our history, our national identity, and our current political cleavages, which are geographic as much as ideological. There are red states and blue states, that there was a civil war in the place called the south, we know that president ial candidates are supposed to say one set of things to their Party Faithful when they arrived in new hampshire, and then two weeks later, they completely Different Things to the faithful of the same party when they get to south carolina. Even in this tea party era, state like vermont and mississippi might as well be on ts in termsanes of p
They doans vote the way because of what they hear from their constituents. In many parts of this country, heavily in rural and suburban and smaller communities, all over the country, people feel very intensely on the firearms issue that we do not need the government involved in more regulation. We are not even getting to the point of sandy hook and columbine that you were talking about. It becomes a cultural issue. To overcome that, there has got to be some what i call daschle that sent sensible points of view brought him. Maybe i am pollyannas but i think we can come up with sensible compromises on some of these issues without interfering with peoples Constitutional Rights and Second Amendment. The issues are so polarized and we do not understand from where a lot of people are coming to in 1994, i ran for reelection and i voted for this assault weapons ban. I had done this great thing on general aviation that kept a lot of jobs. Thousands of jobs in my state and my district. I went an
In November, Ohioans gave Republican legislators a shellacking on abortion rights, enshrining the right to the procedure (as well as rights to contraception…
In November, Ohioans gave Republican legislators a shellacking on abortion rights, enshrining the right to the procedure (as well as rights to contraception…