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Feb 14 2020
News
Biden campaign redeploys staff to South Carolina, Nevada ahead of critical primaries
Former Vice President Joe Biden campaign is redeploying resources ahead of the second phase of early voting states, moving nearly 50 staffers into Nevada and South Carolina in a critical stretch for the campaign.
Staffing changes will also include moving some people to Nevada and South Carolina from Super Tuesday states -- perhaps a new sign of the fragility of the campaign, and their
ABC News (Online)Aug 19 2020
News
Postal Chaos Prompts Democrats to Rethink Mail-Ballot Plan
Turmoil at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is causing some Democrats and local election officials to rethink their vote-by-mail strategies for November's presidential election, shifting emphasis to drop boxes and early voting that bypass the post office.
The 2020 contest promises to be the nation’s largest test of voting by mail. But President Donald Trump’s attacks on mail balloting,
Newsmax (News)Dec 05 2019
News
Nancy Pelosi Pushes to Remove Legal Protections for Online Content in Trade Pact
Internet companies have fought for the provisions in the USMCA deal with Canada and Mexico.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing to strip out sweeping legal protections for online content in the new trade pact with Mexico and Canada, in what would be a blow for big technology companies.
Internet firms lobbied hard to include the immunity language in the trade agreement, seeing
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 17 2016
News
Insiders: Clinton dogged by trust deficit and her last name
Hillary Clinton is sliding in the polls against Bernie Sanders, and the insiders who make up The POLITICO Caucus have the diagnosis: Voters don’t trust her, and she doesn’t represent the change some Democrats want. The Caucus members – an influential panel of the leading operatives, strategists and activists in the four early-nominating states, were asked to evaluate Clinton’s greatest
PoliticoNov 21 2013
News
Landmark Senate Vote Limits Filibusters
The Senate voted on Thursday to eliminate the use of the filibuster against most presidential nominees, a move that will break the Republican blockade of President Obama’s picks to cabinet posts and the federal judiciary. The change is the most fundamental shift in the way the Senate functions in more than a generation.
New York Times (News)Feb 12 2020
Analysis
The race for presidential delegates has begun. Track them here.
The magic number to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for president is 1,991 delegates. It could take months to officially get there.
Presidential candidates are all competing for a majority of 3,979 pledged delegates. Separately, there are also 771 automatic delegates, otherwise known as “superdelegates.” But after a contentious 2016 primary, the Democratic National Committee
VoxFeb 11 2020
News
Big Tech keeps getting bigger, as antitrust inquiries continue to multiply
As antitrust forces hone their investigations into Big Tech, the companies only seem to be growing stronger.
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday fired the latest salvo in the U.S. government’s increasing scrutiny of Big Tech, asking the country’s five largest tech companies by market cap to provide information about acquisitions over the past decade — it is the first time Microsoft
MarketWatchFeb 11 2020
News
Four-day workweek: Why idea of shorter hours gains support
For many people a “full-time job” provides much needed income, even a sense of purpose. But could those needs be supplied without such long work hours? It’s a long-standing question that we revisit in illustrated form.
In 1930, British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that, a century hence, rising productivity would shrink the average workweek to just 15 hours. Needless to say,
Christian Science MonitorJan 21 2014
News
The New GOP: Same As The Old GOP
The Republican Party's image has changed little in the year since GOP Chairman Reince Priebus published his prescription for broadening the party's appeal despite its investment in outreach to the racial minorities, women and gay voters who backed Democrats decisively in 2012.
HuffPostDec 02 2019
Opinion
Citizens United is standing in the way of immigration reform
"You have the right not to open the door. You have the right to be protected from unlawful searches by ICE agents. You do not have to sign any documents that a government official asks you to sign. Know your rights."
This mantra was memorized by immigrants across the country after President Trump announced large-scale Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids this summer. A single tweet
The Fulcrum