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Eric Fingerhut 37 Patchwork Nation 37 Yoopers 37 Steve Driehaus 37 Johnstown 37 Snowstorm blankets 37 Voinovich 37 Great Recession 37 Cossler 37 lunch pail 37 Gov. Ted Strickland 37 taconite plants 37 Sun Belt 37 Steeler Nation 37 Snowbelt 37 Empty storefronts 37 lumber mills 37 Nikollbibaj 37 stagnating wages 36 prototypical yuppie enclave 36 Jim Trakas 36 Lorain Tubular 36 suburbanization 36 Mahoning 36 Boccieri 36 Connie Schultz 36 Twin Cities suburbs 36 Alleghenies 36 shifting demographics 36 Larry Gopnik 36 colossus roared 36 Bushonomics 36 steelworkers union 36 Hazleton 36 gritty blue collar 36 electoral votes 36 GM Lordstown 36 Zug Island 36 Centrism 36 strip malled 36 dirtiest smelliest 36 Southwyck Shopping Center 36 Andrew Doehrel 36 Drabenstott 36 Sparrows Point Md. 36 Softail bikes 36 thickly settled 36 RenCen 36 Plusquellic 36 vanishing breed 36 Cincinnatians 36 maquiladoras 36 Demographic shifts 36 Retiring baby boomers 36 Bernero 36 Ditch Mitch 36 Bangalored 36 Batavia Transmission 36 Gettelfinger 36 sunbelt 36 Meteorite hunters descended 36 entertainment vortexes 36 Burr selectman 36 Willdan conducts business 36 declinism 36 By SHAWN RINE 36 Elkhart Ind. 36 Coingate 36 automaking 36 Jim Oberstar 36 buggy whip 36 Pontiac 36 metal detectors pickaxes shovels 36 Oberstar 36 Lehigh Valley 36 DeWine 36 Gulf Coast 36 Kirk Schuring 36 Disgruntlement 36 brownfields 36 STIMULUS WATCH Stimulus 36 Main Streets 36 Rath Packing Co. 36 Kasich 36 Mourdock 35 urban blight 35 Kokomo 35 Bible Belt 35 Toledoans 35 Janises 35 intraparty fights 35 walkable urban 35 opulent seaside 35 urban homesteaders 35 William Binning 35 Steeltown 35 exurban sprawl 35 Corktown neighborhood 35 doomsday rhetoric 35 NAFTA 35 Tony Phyrillas 35 TOM WALSH 35 Mexicantown 35 Minnesotas 35 revitalize downtowns 35 Adwatch Clinton 35 noncoastal 35 William Frey demographer 35 Everytown USA 35 bitter clingers 35 Great Southern Trendkill 35 EMC Precision Machining 35 Dayne Walling 35 idolized Roberto Clemente 35 Guy Lockrey 35 Dennis Yablonsky 35 Michiganian 35 Sarpolus 35 nominee Pat Toomey 35 Team NEO 35 Rockefeller Republicanism 35 West Virginia 35 Hockeytown 35 culm banks 35 PELLSTON Mich. 35 newsmakers duke 35 Joan Fabiano 35 Northeastern Pennsylvania 35 Tobocman 35 Poletown 35 Dan Kildee 35 downturned economy 35 Sestak Toomey 35 Lake Erie 35 Sunbelt Mid Atlantic 35 Hoffa 35 Chair Saul Anuzis 35 boomtown 35 Murtha 35 downtrodden 35 Amy Rynell director 35 heartlands 35 ELECTION NOTEBOOK 35 Mary Tschosik 35 emo screamo 35 Toledo 35 upstate 35 Clevelanders 35 Highways repaved 35 Bankruptcies foreclosures 35 Canfield Yorkville 35 Joe Cimperman 35 nonurban 35 arrogant elitists 35 James Traficant 35 Leo Gerard 35 starchitecture 35 towering blast furnaces 35 Congressman Jason Altmire 35 Ruhr Valley 35 Lloyd Mahaffey 35 large meteor streaked 35 economically distressed 35 Michigan 35 Barletta 35 TED STRICKLAND 35 Snowmaggedon 35 Miss Kaptur 35 Congressional Districts 35 Congressman Sander Levin 35 blighted neighborhoods 35 Winter Storm Pummels 35 Tim Walberg 34 Hooverville 34 Marisa DiNatale 34 Ohioans 34 taconite pellets 34 burgs 34 Zehnder Merrell 34 vacant storefronts 34 MInnesota 34 Mahoning County 34 Kokomo Ind. 34 Retooling 34 Northeast 34 EAST CLEVELAND 34 antigrowth 34 Dick Yuengling 34 Greensburg 34 Southwyck Mall 34 8th Congressional 34 daytime dramas Guiding Light 34 portraying Wurzelbacher 34 Granholm 34 Detroit Corktown 34 Northeasterner 34 Springsteen 34 Carty Finkbeiner 34 Michiganians 34 Mr. Wilkowski 34 Proos 34 Dirty Thirties 34 Niquero near 34 Craig Foltin 34 Appalachian coalfields 34 Acme Metals 34 Outside Izola restaurant 34 worker Miguel Tesillos 34 Frauenlob referring 34 Aughts 34 Chuck Yob 34 Gdansk shipyard 34 downsizings 34 Stumping 34 Livonia Dearborn Mich. 34 Toyota Bodine Aluminum 34 meth epidemic 34 Claycomo factory 34 Democrat Jason Altmire 34 slag heaps 34 Marlin Stutzman 34 Midwesterners 34 Steubenville 34 globalism 34 gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero 34 redeveloping brownfields 34 Unitas Joe Namath 34 Lorain Elyria 34 Straight Talk Express 34 Copiapo gritty 34 shuttering factories 34 Wisconsins 34 Livonia Romulus 34 Cuyahoga 34 Kokomo Casting Plant 34 ghost estates 34 Congressman Pat Tiberi 34 Monongahela River 34 McCain 34 Elyria 34 Bernie Ravasio 34 Joe Koziura 34 Obamanomics 34 planning raucous sendoffs 34 Mon Yough 34 LEBANON OHIO 34 Congressman Dan Rostenkowski 34 ON DEADLINE 34 Elkhart Goshen 34 Dixiecrats 34 conducts phosphate 34 Rep. Rashida Tlaib 34 automakers 34 Reps. Marcia Fudge 34 northeasterners 34 Brian Fredline president 34 Rep. Thaddeus McCotter 34 Upper Midwest 34 Fairless Works 34 Scranton Pa. 34 re vitalize 34 dwindling nest eggs 34 sooty 34 Indianans 34 Charlotte Benkner 34 Thad McCotter 34 voting blocs 34 Michigander 34 Ron Gettlefinger 34 steelmaking 34 Gephardt 34 quirky blueblood 34 nation midsection 34 prescription painkiller addiction 34 Granakis 34 med mart 34 Arthur Vandenberg 34 householders shivering 34 Amy Hanauer 34 Borosage 34 beloved Buccos 34 Wisconsin 34 Sammetra Christmon 34 Linda Woggon 34 hillbilly stereotype 34 Akron Canton 34 vexes travelers 34 EJ Dionne 34 Tower Automotive 34 upstage Barbra Streisand 34 Milwaukee Laborfest 34 rock ribbed 34 rootlessness 34 suburban 34 Jimmy Hoffa disappeared 34 Mr. Sarantou 34 Steve LaTourette 34 Slate Belt 34 Stark Countians 34 rocker Joe Grushecky 34 George Sarantou 34 Senator George Voinovich 34 GOP 34 Hickory Lenoir Morgantown 34 gentrifiers 34 loft dwellers 34 Extremists sowing terror 34 Steelworkers union 34 Younkers nameplates 34 joblessness homelessness 34 metal stamping 34 Bedells live 34 blighted rusted 34 Massive windstorm howls 34 John Kasich 34 hardscrabble upbringing 34 Joe Paterno Nittany Lions 34 Cuyahoga County 34 Bonior 34 David Shribman 34 Don Walko 34 SOUTH TOLEDO 34 Auto Workers 34 businessman Jim Renacci 34 Rolling Rock 33 businesswoman Betsy Markey 33 Illnois 33 slag heap 33 Hoosier 33 chrome plating 33 Trickle Down 33 Kathy Dahlkemper 33 Diane Eastabrook reports 33 Laborfest 33 riverfronts 33 hard scrabble 33 nonmetro 33 tech meccas 33 Tupac Hunter 33 megafarms 33 Flint 33 Representative JOHN BOEHNER 33 megaregions 33 bankrupt LTV 33 John Cougar Mellencamp 33 Stephanie Tubbs Jones 33 onshoring 33 considered tossups 33 Snow Buries 33 Steelworkers 33 Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick 33 Electorally 33 beer swillin 33 taconite mine 33 Sen. Scott Oelslager 33 Sani Dairy 33 Campus Martius 33 Bob Taft 33 ghost towns 33 Wheeling Pitt 33 Richard Bazzy 33 unenthralled 33 Jonathan Weinzapfel 33 Newarkers 33 burb 33 intermountain west 33 Mackinac Policy 33 Sen. Tim Grendell 33 textile mills 33 Rep. Steve Driehaus 33 Grushecky 33 Autoworkers 33 Scranton 33 Porkopolis 33 Alle Kiski Valley 33 ghetto 33 Chrysler Stamping Plant 33 paralyzing blizzard 33 Akron 33 incumbent Chris Chocola 33 outstate Missouri 33 Keweenaw Peninsula 33 metro Detroiters 33 Lower Ninth 33 Twinsburg stamping 33 sagging porches 33 Dingell 33 Appalachia thinly populated 33 brownstone Brooklyn 33 Maria Zimbardi 33 agriculturally dependent 33 stockyards 33 Rick Snyder 33 CJ Prentiss 33 sprawl 33 #/#-#/# [013] 33 hardhit 33 revitalize blighted 33 totalitarian communism 33 McGovernite 33 Mekeisha Madden 33 Todd Snitchler 33 Rep. Steven LaTourette 33 Critz 33 anticorporate 33 grimy 33 joblessness bankruptcies 33 Rep. 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George Voinovich 33 MACKINAC ISLAND 33 Fred Upton 33 Santorum 33 Eric Fingerhut 33 MIchigan 33 Altmire 33 Lordstown Complex 33 bluesman Muddy Waters 33 Suburbs 33 Bruce Baumhower 33 CAFTA 33 rootsy folk 33 koo SIN' ich 33 downstaters 33 DOWNTOWN TOLEDO 33 McJobs 33 Congressman Vern Ehlers 33 rugged individualism 33 prairie populism 33 Schoolchildren chanting Assassinate 33 Pittsburghese 33 Job Creators 33 workingmen 33 social tapestry fraying 33 rowhouses 33 bluest 33 Virg Bernero 33 boxer Kelly Pavlik 33 TOLEDO OHIO 33 postrecession 33 Sean Snaith economics 33 borscht belt 33 Rep. Chris Chocola 33 lumber barons 33 Sen. Sherrod 33 Victoria DeFrancesco Soto 33 DETROIT WJBK 33 Mr. Konop 33 Tea Partiers 33 B. Candace Beeke 33 vibrant downtowns 33 Obama 33 DEE BURKE Delta 33 entrenched incumbents 33 northeastern Pennsylvania 33 Tubbs Jones 33 unhip 33 compact walkable 33 Evangelical Epicenters 33 Livonia Dearborn 33 Michgian 33 Ann Arbor 33 Lansing 33 gentrifying 33 Debris showered 33 mid atlantic 33 Steve Skvara 33 intraparty contests 33 Appalachian 33 Primanti Bros. 33 Scrantonians 33 Kluko 33 Vern Ehlers 33 Uchitelle 33 Globalism 33 ghost towns Follain 33 Prestowitz 33 www.nam.org 33 Alec Gerlach 33 Generous Motors 33 supplier Federal Mogul 33 Timken Co. 33 Akronites 33 white collar 33 Bayh centrist 33 Greg Tarpinian executive 33 postpartisan 33 Anuzis 33 anthracite coal 33 Kekionga 33 Oldest Brewery 33 United Auto Workers 33 revitalizations 33 Dirda 33 Mike Dewine 33 Fiberglas Tower 33 Pabst brewery 33 Dequindre Cut 33 Labour heartlands 33 Teresa Voors commissioner 33 Keewatin Minn. 33 dubbed hillbilly heroin 32 whitebread 32 steelmaker Wheeling 32 intraparty warfare 32 Rep. Marcia Fudge 32 Philly 32 By Roger Cleaveland 32 By David DeKunder 32 Wehbey 32 Linc Chafee 32 Ypsilanti 32 Nate Salley S 32 antiestablishment mood 32 Steubenville Mingo Junction 32 Festering animosity between 32 Psst! Boss 32 www.TheRant.us 32 Congressman Steve Driehaus 32 Zoned Zone 32 Bouchards 32 BYOBs 32 LaVette 32 Vulcan Forge 32 Cobo Hall 32 visit www.recovery.pa.gov 32 electoral battlegrounds 32 NoVa 32 intraparty battles 32 suburban strip malls 32 millennial generation 32 Snarlin Arlen 32 Hazelton Pa. 32 Great Depression 32 Malartic mine 32 crazy cockamamie 32 Coens brooding bloody 32 Weirton W.Va. 32 Steubenville Weirton 32 Kukovich 32 unabashedly liberal 32 Reps. Tim Walberg 32 rapidly gentrifying 32 Nastiness 32 John Yarmuth 32 intraparty battle 32 Joads 32 Reps. Marcy Kaptur 32 homey vibe 32 Joe Weinroth 32 Stupak 32 honky tonkers 32 Clyde Prestowitz 32 Don Plusquellic 32 Doehrel 32 intraparty squabble 32 post apocalyptic wasteland 32 Joe Sestak 32 LEE BLOOMQUIST covers 32 Republicanism 32 Klineberg 32 Ruhr region 32 Brownstone Brooklyn 32 D. Dingell 32 anti convulsant carbamazepine 32 Fishtown 32 Geberer 32 Representative Deborah Pryce 32 Dan Farough 32 Dashanzi 32 stagnant incomes 32 Tom Marflak 32 Cynthia Ruccia 32 Bill Ballenger 32 Councilwoman Laketa Cole 32 Lordstown plant 32 shifted rightward 32 Dorchester Roxbury 32 Indianas 32 Chip Cravaack 32 Barber Colman 32 alerting oceanside 32 Gloom deepens 32 Kildee 32 Kivioli 32 Joe Sixpack 32 monasteries temples 32 Rep. 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Sander Levin 32 Picher 32 Donora 32 drywall carpeting 32 Brian Rayle 32 capitalist globalization 32 Massacusetts 32 overstuffed mailboxes 32 Rep. Thad McCotter 32 presumptive nominee 32 Erie bayfront 32 JENA La. Drawn 32 Hubert Humphrey Walter Mondale 32 Senator Debbie Stabenow 32 TOP ISSUES 32 Rocky Raczkowski 32 linebacker Obi Ezeh 32 Pikalyovo 32 Windy City 32 Doug Rothwell 32 Tamla Records 32 Wallhaven 32 gentrified neighborhoods 32 Fordist 32 Jason Altmire 32 Antiabortion activists 32 auto 32 pre-#/# mindset 32 prescription painkiller abuse 32 Bellefontaine 32 partisan polarization 32 Cleveland Elyria Mentor 32 university Word Banishment 32 challenger Jack Hoogendyk 32 fanatical Maoist insurgency 32 Benton Harbor 32 Free Genarlow 32 Kennenth Swanson 32 Sen. 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Wheeling 31 AAABA 31 southern coalfields 31 Midwestern sensibilities 31 Trumka 31 Highmark exerts 31 coalmining 31 Karen Majewski 31 Walorski 31 Representative Joe Sestak 31 Cheeseheads 31 upstate downstate 31 Appalachians 31 Bittergate 31 Stroke Belt 31 Bishop Donald Wuerl 31 Dixie Chicks Pearl Jam 31 Ebensburg 31 adjoins Hastert 31 By Dees Stribling 31 strongholds 31 Barracks Row 31 densest cluster 31 Fred Luter 31 Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur 31 suburbanized 31 skilled machinists 31 BY JAIME INGLE 31 Streetcars 31 native Pittsburgher 31 By HANK VERESCHZAGIN 31 recycles scrap metal 31 Governorships 31 Allegheny Mountains 31 Joy Padgett 31 Crowe Cal McAffrey 31 severest downturn 31 Hazleton Pa. 31 unemployed steelworkers 31 elitist 31 Mark Schauer 31 Steve Panagiotakos 31 Knollenberg 31 GVC Networks 31 Greater Cincinnatians 31 Vermonts 31 Regensberg boys 31 Governor Ted Strickland 31 soot belching 31 Norbert Konwin died 31 coal mining 31 Luckeyes 31 Kathy Hochul 31 Chocolate Underbelly 31 NoLa