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Homeowner politics propelled Bush.(George W. Bush)(home ownership)
While Democratic leaders debate how to find a more mainstream message in 2008, they might examine an economic phenomenon that has turned against them in recent years: homeownership.
In simple terms that resonated with much of Middle America, Bush hammered away throughout the campaign on the importance of the "Ownership Society." For most Americans, the place where this starts is ownership of one's own home.
The U.S. homeownership rate reached 69 percent in 2004. Rates were highest in the red states--73 percent in the Midwest and 70 percent in the South, while the Northeast weighed in at 64 percent and the West stood at 63 percent. Married couples with families, a key Bush constituency, had the highest rates among all groups: over 83 percent.
Homeownership momentum continued right up to the election. Sales of new homes rose 4 percent in the fall, to an annual rate of 1.2 million units--the third highest level on record. Sales of previously owned homes also rose to their third highest level. During the campaign, Bush reiterated his goal of adding ...
- Taming The Communal Tiger.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. May 30, 2007 700+ words
...heyday of the British Raj in this country? Is it mere politics propelled by crass opportunism that is the root cause of communalism...show in the following passages as to how the pre sent day politics propelled by crass opportunism has not only divided the Indian society...
- Nationalism in Italian Politics: The Stories of the Northern League, 1980-2000....
- Magazine article from: West European Politics Huysseune, Michel January 1, 2002 700+ words
...political oscillations. The volume also analyses how the Lega's political identity conditions its role in Italian national politics. Propelled to the foreground by the crisis of the Italian political system in the early 1990s, it was never able to reconcile effectively...
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- Magazine article from: Women's Studies in Communication Poirot, Kristan June 22, 2004 700+ words
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- Political reawakening in Zimbabwe.
- Magazine article from: Monthly Review Bond, Patrick April 1, 1999 700+ words
...is a post-nationalist politics propelled by progressive currents finally...afford a basic food basket (60 percent of average household expenditure), shelter (another 25 percent), minimal clothing, education...and transport. The top 10 percent of Zimbabweans consume (a...
- Lalu's rivals see little hope.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire February 3, 2005 700+ words
...only has all business and industrial activity come to a grinding halt in Bihar since the Mandalisation of caste politics propelled Lalu to power, corruption has eaten into the sinews of the state and criminalisation of politics has made Bihar...
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- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire February 3, 2005 700+ words
...only has all business and industrial activity come to a grinding halt in Bihar since the Mandalisation of caste politics propelled Lalu to power, corruption has eaten into the sinews of the state and criminalisation of politics has made Bihar...
- Three Shows, No Problem.
- Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable Atkinson, Claire December 22, 2008 700+ words
...start with the writers' strike, but soon after Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were providing the script. Politics propelled Michaels' Saturday Night Live back into the white-hot center of American pop culture for the first time in...
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- Newspaper article from: Food Weekly News March 26, 2009 700+ words
...landfills bulging with non-recyclable-compostable plastics. Research done by analysts at Morgan Stanley found that "23 percent (of consumers) say they are cutting back on bottled beverages in favor of tap water or beverages in containers that create...
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- Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science August 9, 2009 700+ words
...the Sun's cycle, which lasts approximately 11 years. The total energy reaching Earth from the Sun varies by only 0.1 percent across the solar cycle. Scientists have sought for decades to link these ups and downs to natural weather and climate variations...
- Research in the area of Asian research reported from M.L.F. Delosreyes and...
- Newspaper article from: China Weekly News August 18, 2009 700+ words
...rice production were regressed against an index of El Nino-induced drought magnitude which was computed as the sum of the percent deviation of monthly rainfall from its normal value for all continuous periods within the cropping season with below normal...
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