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White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
The Girlfriend Gap

Mount Carmel, Illinois
Meanwhile, in Bedford Falls

Tampa, Florida
The Gator That Got Away (with Your Ballot, Hillary's Hopes, and Katherine Harris's Little Blue Suit)

Detroit, Michigan
Crossing Over with John Edwards, and Other Rescue Fantasies

New Orleans, Louisiana
Women of the Storm

Fort Worth, Texas
In the Belly of the Bubba

Phoenix, Arizona
Border Wars

Marlborough, Massachusetts
Disparate Housewives

Sacramento, California
The View from the Bottom

Denver, Colorado
Bad Catholics for Kerry

Denver, Colorado
The "Strident Pro-Choice Money Women"

Frenchville, Pennsylvania
Not All Wedge Issues Were Created Equal

Brookline, Massachusetts
Kitty Dukakis Revisited

Suffolk, Virginia
In the Navy

Clarington, Ohio
Divided We Beg

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Down on the Down Low (and Gay Marriage)

Aurora, Kentucky
Between the Rivers

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