内容摘要：Democrats’ path back to power may start here, one small meeting at a time, because it will be difficult, if not impossible, for the party to regain U.S. Senate control or win the presidency without competing harder for rural and small-town voters.

Democrats’ path back to power may start here, one small meeting at a time, because it will be difficult, if not impossible, for the party to regain U.S. Senate control or win the presidency without competing harder for rural and small-town voters.

“I’ve learned so much,” Hurts said about his growth since that game. “It’s the same as any other game and, you know, I think the moments are the moments but ultimately, every game has its lesson — good, bad or indifferent. So, just being able to become wiser, grow and mature and take all these lessons in for the next season and the next games.”The Eagles didn’t have Barkley when they faced the Chiefs two years ago. He joined them in free agency this season and is on the verge of history. Barkley has 2,447 yards rushing, 30 away from passing Terrell Davis’s 26-year-old record for most in a season, including playoffs.

Barkley will turn 28 on game day.How does he plan to celebrate?“Hopefully with green and white confetti falling down, and holding up a nice trophy,” Barkley said.

Pro Picks predicted the Eagles to beat the Chiefs in the Super Bowlso we’re sticking with it.

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Graphic predicts the winner of the Super Bowl.“This is where Trump and MAGA excel –- if somebody who looks like me is your enemy, then you don’t care if the guy in the White House is peeing on your leg and telling you it’s rain,” he said, referring to Trump’s “Make American Great Again” movement.

By definition, a “listening tour” is not meant to produce concrete action. Elridge and Nicholas Hazelett, the Johnson County Democratic chair who is a college student doubling as a Paintsville City Council member, acknowledged that the small crowd was Democrat-friendly. Despite a few recent converts, no one was there waiting to be convinced.Across the street, antiques shop owner Michelle Hackworth said she did not even know Democrats were holding a meeting. Calling herself a “hard-core Republican,” she smiled when asked if she had consider attending.

“They wouldn’t convince me of anything,” she said.Michelle Hackworth discusses U.S. politics standing in her Paintsville, Ky., antiques store, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow)