No one disputes that Rod Rosenstein is a rock-ribbed Republican.
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Judge Gorsuch does not fit the mold of a rock-ribbed conservative.
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His rock-ribbed public image contrasts with a history of struggling with personal demons.
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Gray was a rock-ribbed Republican who hated the New Deal and the Great Society.
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At the time, though, Clinton remained a "Goldwater girl," a rock-ribbed Republican like her father.
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Trump has proven he can win over Evangelicals and rock-ribbed conservatives who make up Cruz's base.
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Democrats flipped seven governorships in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, and formerly rock ribbed Republican Maine.
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But the rock-ribbed secularism is belied by Quebec's landscape, dotted as it is with very large crucifixes.
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Mark Sanford, the rock-ribbed conservative from South Carolina, refused to hold his tongue and lost to a primary challenger.
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The president lauded Mr. McConnell as a "rock-ribbed Kentucky leader" and "a tough cookie" before a self-indulgent addendum.
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Were Texas not such a rock-ribbed conservative state, the next logical move would have been a run for statewide office.
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A youthful John F. Kennedy succeeded the aged Dwight Eisenhower; the rock-ribbed conservative Ronald Reagan followed the liberal Jimmy Carter.
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"So next November, this state needs to defend its values and vote for rock-ribbed Kentucky conservative Mitch McConnell," Trump said.
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Scott Walker was supposed to be the perfect blend of a competent, credentialed executive and a rock-ribbed conservative outsider unstained by Washington.
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Cruz, whose entire brand is built on his rock-ribbed conservatism, will have to fight off those charges before they cause serious damage.
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For many of us, it was a welcome reassurance that there is a moral line even rock-ribbed conservative voters will not cross.
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Was the rock-ribbed conservative, a founding member of the rebellious Freedom Caucus, interested in talking with other presidential hopefuls about an endorsement?
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That vote of confidence from a rock-ribbed conservative gave the New York reality television star some much needed credibility with the Republican base.
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Pearl Jam's songs, particularly its early ones, often face up to youthful traumas and fears, taking heart from rock-ribbed melodies and surging crescendos.
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In a rock-ribbed speech in Washington that previewed how she might confront Mr. Trump on foreign policy in a general-election campaign, Mrs.
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Many Alabamians who were rock-ribbed Republicans and would never allow themselves to vote for a Democrat took Shelby's advice and followed his example.
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It was a politically risky move in a rock-ribbed Christian state that supporters say demonstrated his willingness to put the law above personal beliefs.
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Key to the Democrats' efforts is suburban Orange County south of Los Angeles, where four congressional districts were once the heart of rock-ribbed California Republicanism.
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His powerful opinions and tactical savvy — not to mention his rock-ribbed liberalism — made Reinhardt a hero to the left and a villain to the right.
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The Texas senator is boosted by low expectations in moderate New England on Tuesday, campaigning almost entirely free of pressure given his rock-ribbed conservative profile.
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Thanks to Trump's demagoguery and sheer personal obnoxiousness, this rock-ribbed Republican state may be competitive for the first time since the LBJ landslide of 1964.
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And Cruz, the senator from Texas, argued he's the most rock-ribbed of them all, saying he has defended conservative values throughout his private and public career.
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Helpfully, the anti–clean energy side is represented by Trump, a figure loathed by many Republicans, while the clean energy side is represented by a longtime, rock-ribbed Republican.
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In the 80s, McCain had been a rock-ribbed conservative who as a member of the House voted against making MLK Day a holiday (a vote he later regretted).
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The man whose organization was meant to ensure I became a rock-ribbed conservative seemed to exist far away from what the group was sponsoring half a century later.
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When famine bites, a mother sends her daughter, hair shorn and dressed as a boy, away from their hut on a "rock-ribbed hill" in Donegal to find work.
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Ted Cruz, who would later run for president as a rock-ribbed hero of the right and is perhaps the least compromising lawmaker in the halls of the Capitol.
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So rigid and unnatural is the rigging of the rock-ribbed bodices that they make a bunny's bust look like nothing so much as the bumper of a 1953 Cadillac.
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"To the thousands of moms and dads and grandparents and family members beaming with joy: thank you for raising rock-ribbed, American patriots," Trump said in his remarks at the event.
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"It was quite ironic, me going to Barbara Boxer saying, 'You have to give this plum appointment to this straight white guy who's also a rock-ribbed Republican,'" Ms. Arguedas recalled.
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Specifically on the complicated topic of the idea of the attorney general's loyalty, he writes: How to manage the paradox — loyalty to the president leavened by rock-ribbed integrity of judgment?
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Devin Nunes is a rock-ribbed Republican who served on Trump's transition team, a point critics continually — and fairly — raise when questioning whether he could impartially oversee a probe into the president.
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His rock-ribbed conservatism was forged in the deep poverty and isolation of rural Alabama, sharpened during 16 years as a federal prosecutor and state attorney general and polished as a senator.
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As a dyed-in-the-wool, rock-ribbed conservative, Tea Party adherent, Trump volunteer, I can agree that 28500 corpses are too many: too many families riven by violence, too many grieving mothers.
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The self-styled rock-ribbed conservative is under siege, battling attacks from his right and left flanks who say the Texas senator with tea party and evangelical credentials isn't who he claims to be.
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"I still am stunned that the two most rock-ribbed counties in Georgia that we use to base statewide Republican wins on, Gwinnett County and Cobb County, both went for Hillary Clinton," said Ayres.
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That's left donors and operatives who are more aligned with the GOP's Wall Street wing unenthused, predicting that Pence will do more to win rock-ribbed anti-abortion activists than the buttoned-up business set.
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Senators Orrin Hatch of Utah, a rock-ribbed Republican and a grandfather of CHIP, and Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, have offered a bipartisan patch to fund the programme for the next five years.
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" "They smell blood — if they can install another rock-ribbed conservative like (Supreme Court Justice) Neil Gorsuch, the court will have a locked-in right-wing majority for the rest of most of our lifetimes.
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The winner of Tuesday's Republican primary will almost certainly become a new member of Congress after the June 7 special general election: Mr. Boehner's southwest Ohio district is the very definition of rock-ribbed Republican.
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Rubio in Louisiana The Bayou battle pits Trump's strength among Southern Evangelicals against Cruz's ability to win with rock-ribbed conservatives in a state that neighbors Texas -- just like he did in Oklahoma on Super Tuesday.
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"Rural places, red states, Great Plains states, the parts of the south that aren't as open to diversity, these are rock-ribbed Republican areas and there is essentially no diversity there," Frey said in an interview.
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An essay this month in the Civilta Cattolica, a Jesuit journal approved by the Vatican and edited by a close ally of Francis, argues that Ireland's rock-ribbed Catholicism in part benefited from the absence of modernity.
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You were a Democrat or Republican because everyone you knew was one, just like your father and grandfather and great grandfather… There were liberal rock-ribbed Republicans in the Northeast and conservative yellow dog Democrats in the Deep South.
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The Supreme Court's newest justice is reveling in his role, diving into arguments with gusto and so far fulfilling the expectation that he would be a rock-ribbed conservative in the mold of his predecessor, the late Antonin Scalia.
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Of course, if Trump goes on to suffer a landslide defeat against Hillary Clinton, rock-ribbed conservatives might say, "I told you so," and the dynamics of GOP politics in 2020 could return to what they've been in the past.
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Hillary Clinton's rally Monday in rock-ribbed Republican Nebraska was an event with three goals: Winning the state's split electoral college vote, reaching next door into swing-state Iowa and using a well-known billionaire to question Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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Yet the authors never waver from their essential principle, which is a rock-ribbed defense of both the moral and practical need to defend free speech as both the most vital tool available for the disenfranchised — and essential for the preservation of honest intellectual inquiry and debate.
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The patchwork of super PACs supporting Mr. Cruz, now called Trusted Leadership PAC, began reserving airtime in Arizona as well, intending to run an ad that suggests that Mr. Cruz is a rock-ribbed conservative who is also ready to be president — a consistent criticism of Mr. Trump.
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Here's a state-by-state look at the March 10 map: Idaho hasn't received much love from the Democratic presidential field — few have visited the rock-ribbed Republican state in 2020 and none attended the state Democratic Party's signature event, the Frank and Bethine Church Gala, last weekend.
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By way of comparison, Sean Hannity, considered President Trump's most rock-ribbed supporter on Fox News, was featured in 27 articles in the same time period; Laura Ingraham, another Fox News host, in four; and Lou Dobbs, whose Fox Business show frequently focuses on the alleged dangers posed by immigrants, two.
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The question is whether he is beginning his charge too late: Although roughly 40 percent of Republican caucusgoers lean toward the establishment, Mr. Rubio has sent mixed messages about whether he wants to be their one standard-bearer or whether he is competing with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas for rock-ribbed conservatives.
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But the idea that, in addition to liberals, progressives, resisters, and, oh, I don't know, anyone with an inkling of patriotism, this desire to protect the country may well exist among some rock-ribbed Republicans and may in fact extend all the way to the corridors of the White House offers some solace.
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While the arguments for accepting the settlement are complex—basically, they boil down to a mix of rock-ribbed legal procedural precedent and a winning parade of Teach The Controversy scientific witnesses trotted out by the NFL and the plaintiff's lawyers—the long-term ramifications of the deal for former football players are not.
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Not only did this shift take away one of Paul's better forums for making his case for limited government -- the Sunday shows loved to hear from him during budget impasses -- but it contributed to the sense among the conservative grass roots that even sending rock-ribbed fiscal conservatives to Congress doesn't make a difference.
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Members form identities as a certain kind of politician — a New Democrat or a progressive, a leadership ally or a rock-ribbed true conservative — and then they take cues from how a politician like that ought to respond to the controversy of the day, and their staff hastily assembles some stuff to say about it.
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These are old-line, rock-ribbed American plutocrats—plummy real-estate lords and more than one actual felon, wizened petro-creeps and dynasty inheritors so grandiose and so thunderously dumb that they can turn the free agent signing of a serial domestic abuser into an occasion to weigh in on the moral failings of the urban poor.
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Like Gorsuch, he seemed to be a rock-ribbed, partisan Republican who had burnished his credentials as an associate counsel under Kenneth Starr during the investigation of the Clinton White House but also a person with the kind of elite educational and social background that could win the support of Bush Republicans, whose White House he had also worked for.
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Sadie and Lucy attended the private Snell Seminary School for Women and JR went to Hopkins Academy and University of the Pacific. Joseph R. Knowland wrote of his mother, "she was known as a warm, confident person who got things done, with a minimum of histrionics and a maximum of effectiveness.... having the rock-ribbed benevolence of a native of Maine".
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Lowry, Paul – Wally Butts in Sweat Over Bruins' Defense. Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1943. Notes: "The Bruin rock-ribbed defensive play got Coach Wally Butts of Georgia in such a sweat that he was the first guy to reach the showers as the Bulldogs charged hilariously into their dressing quarters after the Rose Bowl game yesterday."Zimmerman, Paul – Sports Postscripts. Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1943.
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211 the Republican Party was able to capture Tennessee's presidential electoral votes and win the governorship and take three congressional seats in addition to the rock-ribbed GOP First and Second Districts. In 1922 and 1924, with the ebbing of isolationist sympathy and a consequent decline in turnout,Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 287 the Democratic Party regained Tennessee's governorship and presidential electoral votes.
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55-107 In 1928, anti-Catholicism in the Outer Banks and growing middle-class urban Republicanism in Piedmont cities turned North Carolina to GOP nominee Herbert Hoover,Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 212-215 but this was sharply and severely reversed in the following two elections as exceptionally heavy support was given to Democratic nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt in all but a few rock-ribbed Republican mountain bastions.
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As for the non-English Pennsylvanian, King George III, even at his worst, was better than what they had known in their homeland. Fat Pennsylvania's legendary prosperity helped ease discord. Bucks County could boast rich farmland, large supplies of fresh water, timber, iron, fire clay, game, and their famous fieldstone for building. The common New Englander by contrast had to choose between hard-scrabble farming or dangerous fishing off rock-ribbed coasts.
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However, he and Flora had become enamored with the beauty of the Colorado mountains, often comparing them in speeches with those "rock-ribbed" hills "ancient as the sun" of William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis. Not content with the rustic accommodations, lazy pastimes and relaxed social scene of their new home, Stanley resolved to turn Estes Park into a resort town. In 1907, construction began on the Hotel Stanley, a grand hotel catering to the class of wealthy urbanites who composed the Stanleys' social circle in Newton.
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I also observed that most of the > outstanding graduates of our colleges were leaving Arkansas for greater > opportunities; Arkansas was at a standstill. It became my obsession to help > Arkansas throw off its shackles. > The major factors contributing to the state's problems were: > (1) Arkansas manufacturers had to pay three times the rates to ship their > goods east as eastern merchants had to pay to send the same goods west to > Arkansas. > (2) In those days, Arkansas was a rock-ribbed, solid, yellow-dog Democrat > state.
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A strongly Democratic state during the Second Party System, Illinois became Republican- leaning after the Civil War due to a combination of strong Free Soil Party heritage amongst its Yankee northern counties with the wartime conversion of some Virginian-settled rock-ribbed Democratic Southern Illinois countiesPhillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 341-344 to Unionist RepublicanismWells, Damon; Stephen Douglas: The Last Years, 1857–1861, p. 285 à la Appalachia.Copeland, James E.; ‘Where Were the Kentucky Unionists and Secessionists’; The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, volume 71, no. 4 (October, 1973), pp.
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Many experts believed that the 22nd, long considered a rock-ribbed Republican district, had become much more competitive as a result of DeLay's attempts to make the other Houston-area districts more Republican. Most of the Democratic strength can be attributed to the portion of the district in Galveston County, home to large numbers of unionized petrochemical refinery workers. Lampson announced on August 16, 2006 that three major police associations had endorsed him: the National Association of Police Organizations, the International Union of Police Associations, and the Texas State Police Coalition.
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Clinton ran a second time with incumbent Vice President Al Gore as his running mate and Dole ran with former New York Congressman Jack Kemp. Texas provided both two of the nation's three most Republican counties – High Plains Ochiltree in its north and Glasscock in the central plains – and its most Democratic county in rock-ribbed Tejano Starr County at the opposite end of the state.Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; 1996 Presidential Election Statistics Texas weighed in for this election as 13% more Republican than the national average.
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36, No. 1 (February 1970), pp. 33-49 – where he was the only Republican to carry Perry County until John McCain in 2008Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 298-303 and the solitary GOP victor in Jackson County until Mitt Romney in 2012 – plus abnormally high voter turnout amongst isolationist mountaineers in rock-ribbed Republican East Tennessee. Harding also gained important help through overwhelming support from the few blacks able to vote – all residing within the state’s largest cities – due to his public support for civil rights for African-Americans.
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This remains the last election in which a Republican presidential nominee has won traditionally rock-ribbed GOP Tompkins County in upstate New York, home to the college town of Ithaca, where Cornell University and Ithaca College are located.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 At this point, Tompkins County had gone Democratic since the Civil War only in the landslides of 1912 and 1964,Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 261-265 with FDR never topping 40%.
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This Landon achieved despite losing two counties (Washington and York) that had voted for Herbert Hoover in 1932, as he made gains of up to ten percent in the rock-ribbed Yankee counties of Hancock, Lincoln and Waldo. Maine had been one of only 6 states to vote to re-elect Hoover, the embattled incumbent Republican president, over FDR in the latter's 1932 landslide, and in 1936, it was one of only two states in the entire nation (along with nearby Vermont) to vote for Alf Landon over the wildly popular Roosevelt. Maine and Vermont ultimately would be the only states to reject FDR in all four of his presidential campaigns.
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Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; 1912 Presidential General Election Data – National by State: Sorted by Vote Percentage for Wilson Utah was his eleventh-best state overall and voted 17.83 percentage points more Democratic than the nation at-large. Wilson swept every county in the state, including rock-ribbed Republican Kane County, which had been Taft's third-strongest county nationwide in 1912,Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; 1912 Presidential Election Statistics which has never otherwise supported a Democrat for president, and where otherwise only William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 have as Democrats received so much as one third of the vote.
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In these two largest counties in the state, Obama was the first Democratic victor since Lyndon Johnson in 1964,Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 271-274 while in rock-ribbed Republican McIntosh County, Obama’s 37.79 percent constitutes the best performance by a Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936. At the same time, popular incumbent Republican Governor John Hoeven was reelected to a second term in a landslide three-to-one victory over Democrat Tim Mathern and Independent DuWayne Hendrickson. Hoeven received 74.44% of the vote while Mathern took in 23.53% and Hendrickson with the remaining 2.03%.
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Ever since the Republican Party formed in 1854 to stop the spread of slavery into the territories, Maine and nearby Vermont had been rock-ribbed Republican, except during the split of 1912 when the Pine Tree State went to Woodrow Wilson with less than forty percent of the vote. As recently as 1956, Dwight D. Eisenhower had won over seventy percent of the vote in the state for the GOP. However, at the same time the GOP was turning its attention from the declining rural Yankee counties to the growing and traditionally Democratic Catholic vote,Phillips, Kevin; The Emerging Republican Majority; pp. 55-60 along with the conservative Sun Belt whose growth was driven by air conditioning.
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Willkie ran with Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon while Roosevelt ran with Henry A. Wallace of Iowa. Willkie won Maine by a narrow margin of 2.33%, a swing of 11.66% to Roosevelt during an election where FDR lost 697 counties that had supported him four years earlier, mostly because of German Americans opposition to increasing "tension" with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.Dunn, Susan; 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler–the Election Amid the Storm, p. 107 Contrariwise, the powerful "Anglophile" tendencies of Yankee and French- Canadian Maine meant that support for aid to the United Kingdom and France in ongoing World War II turned substantial numbers of normally rock-ribbed GOP voters to Roosevelt.
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88, No. 4 (December 1973), pp. 655-683 This would lead to much more drastic changes in the future, but in the presidential race Democratic nominee and incumbent President Grover Cleveland, running with the former Senator and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Allen G. Thurman won only 52.26 percent of the popular vote, against former Indiana Senator Benjamin Harrison (R-Indiana), running with Levi P. Morton, the 31st governor of New York who gained 45.76 percent. Cleveland’s margin was, given the political changes taking place, only a small improvement over his 1884 win in Tennessee; however, he did re-establish the majority-black far southwestern part of the state as rock-ribbed Democratic until the party turned towards Civil Rights under Harry S. Truman.
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Wightman was a shy, somewhat awed, and fascinated 22-year-old college girl when she arrived at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1909 for the U.S. Championships. She never before played on grass, but she used her attacking style and rock-ribbed volleying—she was the first woman to rely so heavily on the volley—to win the all-comers final over Louise Hammond 6–8, 6–1, 6–4 and then the title over 39-year-old Maud Barger-Wallach 6–0, 6–1. Wightman also won the women's doubles and mixed doubles titles that year. In the 1910 Washington State Championships, Wightman won one of the few recorded "Golden Matches" in which the winner did not lose a point.
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Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings, The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock- ribbed and ancient as the sun,—the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods—rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean’s gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages.
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M5 but as it turned out the state's votes went quite clearly to Hoover, despite the powerful Democratic loyalty of whites in West Tennessee. Hoover benefitted from a substantial Republican trend in normally rock-ribbed Democratic but heavily white counties of Middle Tennessee. Although Hoover managed to flip only Houston County – where he was the only Republican victor until Mitt Romney in 2012Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 298-303 – and heavily populated Davidson and “Little Confederacy” Sullivan Counties where he was the first Republican victor since Ulysses S. Grant in 1868, due to a powerful Prohibitionist anti-Catholic vote he gained very strongly compared to Coolidge's 1924 showing in many white counties that remained Democratic,Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p.
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183-184 After the disfranchisement of the state's African- American population by a poll tax was largely complete in the 1890s,Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 the Democratic Party was certain of winning statewide elections if united,Grantham, Dewey W.; ‘Tennessee and Twentieth-Century American Politics’; Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Fall 1995), pp. 210-229 although unlike the Deep South Republicans would almost always gain thirty to forty percent of the statewide vote from mountain and Highland Rim support. When the Democratic Party was bitterly divided, the Republicans did win the governorship in 1910 and 1912, but did not gain at other levels. The 1920 election saw a significant but not radical change, whereby by moving into a small number of traditionally Democratic areas in Middle TennesseeReichard, Gary W.; ‘The Aberration of 1920: An Analysis of Harding's Victory in Tennessee’; The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 36, No. 1 (February 1970), pp. 33-49 and expanding turnout due to the Nineteenth Amendment and powerful isolationist sentiment,Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 211 the Republican Party was able to capture Tennessee's presidential electoral votes and win the governorship and take three congressional seats in addition to the rock-ribbed GOP First and Second Districts.
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