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  • Despite that the overwhelmi ­ng majority of us live in urban areas and auto fuel is so high that people are running out of gas on our freeways trying to get home from work if they are lucky enough to have a job.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • They have also tried to dismantle the careful and eco-respon ­sible planning of the Pebble Beach area, where locals have voted overwhelmi ­ngly in favor of the PB Co's long term developmen­tal and environmen ­tal plans...wh­ile the Coast Commission has tried to stop the will of citizens at every turn.

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  • The GOP mantra of starving public education has a payoff in federal loan guarantees at private schools and a student stuck with overwhelmi photobug90802: It's no surprise Mitt the corporate thief would support for listentome

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

  • To win you need the overwhelmi ­ng majority of your base and significan­t number of independen AskMeLaterOK: Please, Obama will get reelected.

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  • He is simply trying to take what little wealth American families have left and hand it over to the rich again and, in the process, destroy the social safety net for the overwhelmi ­ng majority of us.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • They have also tried to dismantle the careful and eco-respon ­sible planning of the Pebble Beach area, where locals have voted overwhelmi ­ngly in favor of the PB Co's long term developmen­tal and environmen ­tal plans...wh­ile the Coast Commission has tried to stop the will of citizens at every turn.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Lack of investment is due to the overwhelmi ­ng drop in the speed and cost of production­.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Gary Hart 2012

  • We must now pin our hope on a new Congress, one with an overwhelmi ­ng majority of progressiv­e Democrats who will have the intestinal fortitude to undo what was done during this Congress, and do all the things that should have been done.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Robert Kuttner 2011

  • And if you inspect the President' ­s actions over the past four years, you will indeed find that he has been overwhelmi ­ngly anti-small business-- as have been most of our Representa ­tives and Senators.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Lloyd Chapman 2012

  • Listen carefully to the rhetoric, and it is very much a bunker mentality: conservati ­ves being assaulted on all sides, fighting for survival against overwhelmi ­ng odds.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Douglas LaBier 2012

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