Facebook shortly followed suit with their own social leaning "Place" in the name product.
In other equally Republican-leaning places, such as Texas and the Deep South, politics is more raw and fiercely fought.
The idea is perhaps most in vogue in chilly, left-leaning places, among them Canada, Finland, the Netherlands and Scotland.
Even conservative-leaning places such as Baylor University in Waco, the largest Baptist university in the world, last week announced it too would forbid guns on its premises.
And while the 19th District has vast stretches of rural, conservative communities, it is also home to more Democratic-leaning places, like New Paltz and Monticello, that could give his candidacy a lift.
Teachout inhabits right-leaning places where riff-loving men seldom wander, but his writing seems all the better for his distance from liberal piety; some of the best jazz criticism has always come from less than liberal precincts, as with the apolitical Whitney Balliett and the Tory Philip Larkin.
In seeking to ease tensions on abortion, Obama is trying to neutralize a key issue used by Republicans to galvanize conservative voters -- particularly in GOP-leaning places such as Indiana, a state that he won in last year's election.
If Republicans want to keep a majority in the House of Representatives in this fall's midterm elections, the party must win in Republican-leaning places like Virginia's 5th district.
They seem to be leaning toward placing Ivan Nova and Freddy Garcia in the rotation while awarding Bartolo Colon the long relief role.
Now, with a wealth of quarterbacks, Savage is leaning toward placing the highest possible tender offer on Anderson when he becomes a restricted free agent after the season.
According to unsourced reports Wednesday in the French media, including the daily newspaper Le Monde, the three judges on the court are leaning toward placing Ms. Lagarde under formal investigation on suspicion of being accessory to fraud and the misuse of public funds.
