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Ohio Gov. John Kasich has a pet peeve: the use of the term "Rust Belt" to describe his state. The Republican governor has made it his mission to send the label to the scrap heap of history. He points ...

DES MOINES — At the very first event of her first full day in Iowa as a presidential candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris was greeted by a Democratic voter who delivered a pointed recommendation about the ...

When the domestic steel industry all but died in the 1970s, Pennsylvania, along with other steel-making states, took on the title “rust belt.” It aptly described the economic devastation brought about ...

As the Democrats have lost ground to the Republicans with noncollege educated and working-class voters, particularly among white and Latino populations, researchers have wondered how Democrats might ...