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Apr 17 2016
News
Dem Congressman to Voters: ‘Calm Down on the Superdelegate Issue’
Representative Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA)19% urged voters Saturday to “calm down” about superdelegates in a visit to his constituency in the second congressional district in northwest California.
Huffman is a superdelegate who has endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But his district, which includes the liberal northern suburbs of San Francisco and the marijuana-growing
Breitbart News
Apr 15 2016
News
Where Trump and Sanders Agree
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump share many of the same oratorical tricks, from trumpeting their poll numbers to their pronunciation of the word “yuge.” At Thursday’s CNN debate, Sanders added two more similarities: defending calling Hillary Clinton “unqualified” for the White House because he felt he was responding to an attack, and arguing the U.S. contributes too much to NATO. The
Time Magazine
Apr 09 2020
Analysis
Five reasons Bernie Sanders lost
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders ended his bid for the 2020 Democratic Party's presidential nomination on Wednesday. Not only did he lose a second time in a row, but he actually ended up with less support.
There are many reasons Sanders fell short to Joe Biden. Here are five of them. 1. Lack of black support Sanders ran into a wall in 2016 among black voters. Hillary Clinton catapulted
CNN Digital
Oct 31 2022
Perspectives Blog
Midterm Prediction: Will Abortion or Inflation Motivate Voters?
This piece was originally published on Divided We Fall, which AllSides rates as mixed. It was written by Celinda Lake, who is a Democratic strategist and President at Lake Research Partners, and John Feehery, Columnist for The Hill.
Americans Will Vote for What They Believe, Regardless of Political Party How Will Voters React to Inflation, Abortion, and Environmental Issues?By
Divided We Fall (author)
Jul 31 2014
News
CIA director apologizes to Senate leaders
The director of the CIA, offering a rare apology, has acknowledged an internal probe's findings that CIA employees in the Executive Branch improperly spied on the Legislative Branch by searching Senate computers and reading staffers' emails earlier this year.
According to a declassified CIA inspector general's report, CIA officers improperly accessed Senate computers, read the emails
Fox News Digital
Dec 29 2020
News
Fight Over Big Tech Gets Personal Among Conservatives
A new lawsuit is inflaming tensions on the right between the powerful, business-friendly Koch political network and a rising coalition of populist conservatives pushing for a crackdown on Silicon Valley.
The lawsuit seeks emails and other communications between staffers at a Commerce Department tech agency and outside policy gurus who support the Trump administration's campaign to reign
Washington Free Beacon
Oct 28 2016
News
After Trump, congressional Republicans plan to keep doing the same thing
If Hillary Clinton is elected this fall, it will mark an unusual third straight defeat in presidential elections for Republicans and a historically unprecedented loss of the popular vote in six elections out of seven. And while nobody is sure yet how Donald Trump’s roiling of the party establishment will play out in future primaries, it’s clear enough that the party is settling in on a
Vox
Dec 20 2016
News
Two Kinds of Power
The present season — once called Christmas, now semi-officially “the holidays” — affords scope for meditation on stuff quite a bit bigger than Electoral College voting, hacked emails, accusations of foreign interference, prospects for Cabinet and Supreme Court confirmations, that sort of thing.
The American Spectator
Oct 25 2016
News
Election 2016: The Potentially Polarizing Effects Of Search Engines, Social Media And Motivated Reasoning
According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, 81 percent of supporters of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump disagree not only on their respective policies and plans but also on the “basic facts” surrounding the candidates and the election. The Pew Research Center stated that its survey was conducted online from Sept. 27 to Oct. 10 among 4,132 adults, including 3,616 registered voters,
HuffPost
Jan 15 2020
Analysis
How a Senate impeachment trial works
A Senate impeachment trial is a rare thing — it has happened only two other times in American history and once in the modern era. Here’s the nitty-gritty of how we believe each day will work, based on a reading of the Senate rules about how to hold trials, how President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial was run, and our current understanding of the expected schedule.
The ceremonial
Washington Post