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Dec 19 2022
Perspectives Blog
When the Two Parties Watch Catastrophe Happen – Without Lifting a Finger
From the CenterFor many Americans, this week marks the beginning of the holiday season, starting with Chanukah, then followed by Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Years in rapid succession. But for almost as many, this is also the time of year in which football ascends to another level in the national cultural consciousness, starting with the first of no fewer than 43 college bowl games, after
Dan Schnur
Sep 16 2022
Opinion
Did John Fetterman Call for the Mass Release of Prisoners?
The campaign for Democratic candidate John Fetterman, who's running for U.S. Senate in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, is denying that he ever called for the mass release of prisoners, specifically, one-third of the statewide criminal population, which amasses to over 12,400 of the about 37,700 convicts incarcerated in the state's correctional facilities as of Aug. 31, per a
Townhall
Sep 12 2022
Perspectives Blog
When the Democrats Get in the Democrats’ Way
From the CenterThe Democrats seem poised to keep control of the U.S. Senate. The only ones who can stop them are Democrats.
Earlier this year, it appeared that Republicans were all but assured to regain the Senate majority in November. Midterm elections are notoriously difficult for the president’s party, and both Joe Biden’s approval numbers and consumer confidence were scraping
Dan Schnur
Aug 22 2022
News
Why Democrats are feeling better about their Senate odds
Democrats are growing increasingly optimistic about their chances of holding the Senate this year amid a spate of favorable public polling and signs that some of the GOP’s top candidates are struggling to get their campaigns off the ground.
To be sure, Democrats have zero margin for error. The Senate is split 50-50 and any misstep or error — forced or unforced — could hand Republicans
The Hill
Jun 16 2022
News
Democrats Aren't Taking Their Texas Special Election Loss Well
After Republican Mayra Flores won the special election for Texas' 34th Congressional District — flipping the D+5 district that covers a portion of the Rio Grande Valley — Democrats are apparently not doing well.
After winning her election on Tuesday night, Flores tweeted that her campaign "started the red wave" that's been building ahead of November's general election — and Democrats
Townhall
Mar 06 2023
Perspectives Blog
AllSides News Briefing: March 6, 2023
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AllSides Staff
Oct 03 2022
News
Democrats stake their House majority on abortion
From rural Wisconsin Trump country to California’s heavily Catholic Central Valley, there’s almost no place where Democrats think an abortion rights-focused message won’t play — and they are betting their House majority on it.
Democratic candidates, their party’s campaign arm and allied super PACs have spent nearly $18 million to air more than 100 abortion-centered broadcast TV ads in
Politico
Nov 21 2022
Opinion
Trump is back, at Republicans' peril
He never really went away, did he? And now he’s back. Donald Trump ’s announcement that he is running for the 2024 Republican nomination is no surprise. All popular reality TV shows return for a second or third run. But the ratings are sliding with each new series. Trump’s routines were once the greatest show on Earth. Now the viewers are turned off.
Trump performed a public service in
Washington Examiner
Nov 21 2022
Opinion
Biden at 80: A ‘respecter of fate’ mulls 2nd White House bid
People in their 80s lead countries, create majestic art and perform feats of endurance. One entered the record books for scaling Mount Everest. It’s soon time for Joe Biden, 80 on Sunday, to decide whether he has one more mountain to climb — the one to a second term as president.
Questions swirl now, in his own party as well as broadly in the country, about whether he’s got what it
Associated Press
Oct 07 2022
News
U.S. job growth strong in September as labor market forges ahead
U.S. employers hired more workers than expected in September, while the unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%, pointing to a tight labor market which keeps the Federal Reserve on its aggressive monetary policy tightening campaign for a while.
Though the 0.2 point decline in the jobless rate from 3.7% in August was partly because of people leaving the workforce, the Labor Department's
Reuters