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Nov 04 2014
News
MIDTERMS 2014: Night of the nail-biters: Candidates locked in tight races from coast to coast
Voters likely will hear a familiar refrain Tuesday night as the election returns stream in: "Too close to call."
From Alaska to Iowa to Florida and virtually everywhere in between, a surprising number of congressional and gubernatorial candidates are locked in tight races on Election Day.
The battle for the Senate boils down to a referendum on President Obama's final two years
Fox News DigitalOct 03 2015
News
Jeb’s growing list of unfortunate comments
A day after a massacre on a U.S. college campus, Jeb Bush said “stuff happens” but that it should not lead to tighter gun restrictions. This isn’t the first time the 2016 contender, who has been struggling to connect with voters, has conveyed his ideas poorly. In the immediate aftermath, as the floundering candidate's two inelegant words shot around the Twittersphere and were seized upon by a
PoliticoOct 15 2020
Analysis
With militias on the rise, states boost vigilance
Around the time that Sylvia Santana watched armed men pile into the Michigan Capitol in Lansing to protest pandemic restrictions in April, a plot to attack politicians involving at least one of those men, the FBI says, had begun to hatch.
Tempers were stretched. A seemingly fringe idea transformed into an operation.
Members of a self-constituted militia now envisioned themselves
Christian Science MonitorMar 25 2013
News
Supreme Court to wade into affirmative action -- again
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear another challenge to the use of racial preferences in hiring and college admissions, even while still deciding the fate of a University of Texas affirmative action program.
The latest case involves Michigan's 2006 voter referendum barring the use of racial preferences at state universities and in government hiring. The constitutional amendment was
USA TODAYOct 30 2014
News
In tight elections, groups try shame as turnout tactic
In the frantic race to turn out voters on Election Day, interest groups are relying on new forms of public shaming to get you to the polls.
In Alaska and Colorado, for instance, conservative groups have sent out mailers that compare your voting record to your neighbors' voting histories. The Alaska mailer, funded by a super PAC with a Texas address, goes further and threatens to send an
USA TODAYApr 30 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Big Government Makes a Comeback
The era of small government is over.
Technically speaking, there was never really an era of small government in modern America history. It was more of a rhetorical device and overall attitude toward government spending than a set of policies that were ever enacted. But when Bill Clinton used his 1996 State of the Union address to declare “the era of big government is over”, the
Dan SchnurApr 25 2015
News
Clinton Campaign Beset by Early Tests
An assertive Republican Congress coupled with new disclosures about the Clinton family’s charitable foundation threaten to shadow Hillary Clinton’s newly minted presidential campaign for months, a period when she will be trying to reintroduce herself to voters as an advocate for the middle class.
House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) said this past week that he is open to asking the
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 13 2019
Opinion
Diversity Panic Hits the Democratic Field
Who’s at fault if black voters support white candidates?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An Asian guy, two black guys, three white women (one of whom spent much of her life claiming to be Native American), a Pacific Islander woman, a gay guy, a Hispanic guy, two elderly Caucasian Jews (one a billionaire, the other a socialist), a self-styled Irishman, and a few nondescript
Jonah GoldbergOct 20 2012
Opinion
Public Would Accept Tax Hikes in Debt Deal
Voters are more likely to embrace tax increases for households making $250,000 or more than cuts to Medicare or other domestic spending, according to the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll. They are also more worried about cuts in entitlement programs than about tax hikes as a part of any deal that policymakers strike to fend off the sequesters $1.2
National JournalOct 23 2014
News
Obama makes pitch for Senate candidate Michelle Nunn in Georgia
In a rare pitch for an individual Senate candidate, President Obama told Georgia voters Thursday that Democrats will hold the Senate if Michelle Nunn wins her campaign against Republican David Perdue.
“If Michelle Nunn wins, that means that Democrats keep control of the Senate,” Mr. Obama said in an interview on radio station V-103, which is geared toward a black audience. “And that
Washington Times