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The apparent weakness of Independents in being outside the mainstream is their strength: they represent an alternative way of thinking about politics.
First Filipina elected to a state legislature in the continental United States (1992) "For an immigrant woman to be elected to public office and to be given the opportunity to be in the mainstream has been the greatest gift that people have given to me."— Home
You don't need to be a genius to intuit what their general idea is; particular cultural tensions between this subculture and the mainstream are at work, and religion might be an exacerbating as opposed to dampening influence.— ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Proposals about other technologies ahead of the mainstream are also invited.— Feedburner: O'Reilly Press Releases

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