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Nov 06 2019
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The Kentucky Governor’s Race Is a Warning to Republicans
The Republican incumbent couldn’t overcome the unpopularity of the party’s agenda. That doesn’t bode well for the GOP in 2020.
Donald Trump wants his party to believe that he was the hero of the campaign in Kentucky, who almost—but not quite—rescued a deeply unpopular governor from defeat.
But to understand why November 2019 is so ominous for Republicans, you need to understand
The Atlantic
Mar 01 2015
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G.O.P. Race Starts in Lavish Haunts of Rich Donors
Instead of the corn dogs and pork chops on a stick ritually served up on the hustings of Iowa, the latest stop on the donor trail featured meals of diver scallops and chocolate mousse. The setting was the Breakers, a sprawling Italian Renaissance-inspired hotel here, where the cheapest available rooms fetched $800 a night. And for the half-dozen Republican presidential candidates invited to
New York Times (News)
Jul 17 2019
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Trump Sets the 2020 Tone: Like 2016, Only This Time ‘the Squad’ Is Here
With three days of attacks on four liberal, minority first-term congresswomen, President Trump and the Republicans have sent the clearest signal yet that their approach to 2020 will be a racially divisive reprise of the strategy that helped Mr. Trump narrowly capture the White House in 2016.
It is the kind of fight that the president relishes. He has told aides, in fact, that he is
New York Times (News)
Jul 17 2019
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House Rebuke of Trump for Racism Unites Democrats, Energizes GOP
The Democratic-led House responded to Donald Trump’s sustained attacks on four female Democratic lawmakers by taking the extraordinary step of rebuking the president for racism.
The resolution -- backed Tuesday by all 235 Democrats, four Republicans and one independent -- accused the president of having “legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color,” a
Bloomberg
Feb 28 2015
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House Passes One-Week Funding Extension for Homeland Security
Republicans vowing to govern effectively as a congressional majority failed a fundamental test Friday, when House leaders only narrowly managed to avert a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security after an embarrassing defeat earlier in the day.
The seven-day funding extension, approved by a vote of 357 to 60, came just hours before money for the department was to run out
New York Times (News)
Nov 05 2019
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Some battleground polls missed 2016. Are they better for 2020?
A number of swing state pollsters misjudged candidate Donald Trump’s rise three years ago, in part due to flaws in their methods. Here’s how they’ve tried to improve for President Trump’s reelection race.
Is President Donald Trump going to win reelection? Numerous national polls show him losing to all three of the leading Democratic candidates: Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and Bernie
Christian Science Monitor
Jan 27 2020
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Biden and Sanders are breaking away from the pack of candidates among Democrats nationwide, Washington Post-ABC News poll finds
Former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whose candidacies embody competing wings of the Democratic Party, have emerged as the leaders in the contest for their party’s presidential nomination, according to a Washington Post-ABC News national poll.
The findings come little more than a week before the first votes of the 2020 campaign will be cast in Iowa’s precinct
Washington Post
Nov 21 2015
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Democrats Push to Prevent Gun Sales to Terror-list Suspects
Congressional Democrats are trying to build support for an effort to bar gun purchases by terror suspects, hoping to take advantage of the same public anxieties about security that gave Republicans a ringing House victory.
The Democratic push seems likely to fall victim to opposition from the National Rifle Association and congressional gun-rights backers, chiefly Republicans, who have
Newsmax (News)
Nov 19 2013
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Republicans' Many Excuses For Inaction On Immigration
About a year after Republicans lost badly with Latino voters in the presidential election and began to promise quick action on immigration reform, a Senate-passed bill has languished in the House ,no bills have been put forward to deal with major issues such as the limbo of the U.S. undocumented population, and the year is drawing to a close without any expectation of a single immigration-
HuffPost
Jul 14 2015
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See Congress polarize over the past 60 years, in one beautiful chart
The growth of partisan polarization has transformed US politics in recent decades, and the effects are especially visible in Congress. Now a new paper in PLOS One (and flagged by Wonkblog's Chris Ingraham) demonstrates this transformation in a particularly cool way.
Six researchers — Clio Andris, David Lee, Marcus Hamilton, Mauro Martino, Christian Gunning, and John Armistead Selden —
Vox