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Jun 15 2015
News
Utah Democrats stick with Peter Corroon, candidate nominating rules
Democrats often campaign as the party of change — especially in Republican-dominated Utah — but during their organizing convention Saturday in Park City, they decided they like the status quo.
Chairman Peter Corroon was re-elected to a second term without opposition and delegates voted against changing their candidate-nominating rules beyond those spelled out in SB54, the new law that
Sep 30 2014
News
What to Watch in the Third-Quarter Senate Fundraising Race
Tuesday marks the end of the third fundraising quarter—the last round of campaign-finance filings that candidate committees are required to file before their pre-election disclosures—and candidates and party committees have been furiously fundraising in recent days in an effort to give their numbers a last-minute boost.
While committees aren’t required to submit their disclosures until
Wall Street Journal (News)
Sep 28 2014
Opinion
'Partyism' Now Trumps Racism
If you are a Democrat, would you marry a Republican? Would you be upset if your sister did?
Researchers have long asked such questions about race, and have found that along important dimensions, racial prejudice is decreasing. At the same time, party prejudice in the U.S. has jumped, infecting not only politics but also decisions about dating, marriage and hiring. By some measures, "
Bloomberg
Feb 07 2020
Analysis
What Is Consistent about Mitt Romney?
I’ve never understood Mitt Romney. I’ve admired him, even warmed to him. The post-election documentary Mitt presents Mitt Romney as a man who is high in conscientiousness; he chases after the tiniest litter in his presence. It shows a winning self-effacing side of the man; it shows him admiring his father more than himself. In that film, he takes the slings and arrows of public life with some
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Feb 06 2020
News
Sen. Mitt Romney Does Not Acquit
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
On Wednesday, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) voted in favor of convicting Donald Trump of abuse of power, the first Article of Impeachment passed by the House of Representatives. In doing so, he broke with Senate Abridge News
May 17 2019
News
Frustrated House Democrats Pin Their Hopes on Mueller
House Democrats, frustrated by President Trump’s efforts to stonewall their investigations and eager to stoke public anger about the president’s behavior, are pinning their diminishing hopes on Robert S. Mueller III yet again.
They had a plan: dramatize the special counsel’s damning but dense report on national television in their committees, animating his prose with vivid testimony
New York Times (News)
Sep 27 2015
News
Bill Clinton: Republicans waging ‘full-scale frontal assault’ on Hillary
Former President Bill Clinton said Sunday that Republicans are spotlighting Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email scandal because they fear her presidential candidacy.
Mr. Clinton told Fareed Zakaria on CNN’s “GPS” that Republicans want his wife’s campaign “as mangled up as possible” because the Democratic primary race is about issues and substance while the Republican contest has turned into
Washington Times
Apr 05 2024
Headline Roundup
Nebraska Lawmakers Reject 'Winner-Take-All' Electoral System Proposal
Nebraska lawmakers voted against a proposal to change the state's electoral system to a “winner-take-all” model, despite endorsements from former President Donald Trump and Nebraska Gov Jim Pillen (R).
For Context: Nebraska is one of only two states that does not use the “winner-take-all” model in its electoral system, instead allocating their electoral votes based on district outcomes
MSNBC
The Hill
Fox News Digital 
Oct 14 2020
Analysis
Amy Coney Barrett: Scalia protege in outlook, not temperament
Jennifer Brady, a centrist Democrat and former English professor at Rhodes College, can’t reconcile two things: her strong admiration for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett – one of the top two students she had in 36 years of teaching – and her deep concern about Senate Republicans pushing through her nomination so late in an election year.
“Had the Republicans not cynically
Christian Science Monitor
May 16 2019
News
Mayor Bill de Blasio Enters 2020 Race for President
Bill de Blasio, the Democratic mayor of New York City, announced on Thursday that he was running for president, seeking to show that his brand of urban progressive leadership can be a model for the rest of the nation.
It will be a steep challenge: He becomes the 23rd Democrat to enter the presidential race, and he does so against the counsel of many of his trusted advisers, and in the
New York Times (News)