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Nov 19 2020
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The Memo: Democrats see warning signs beyond 2020
Some of the smartest minds in Democratic politics see warning signs for their party even as they celebrate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Trump.
While Biden's advantage in the popular vote this year is nearing 6 million, some liberal political experts are disconcerted by demographic trends that they say look unexpectedly difficult for their party.
Two in
The HillFeb 12 2020
Analysis
How Sanders Held Off Buttigieg And Klobuchar In New Hampshire
On Tuesday, as expected, Sen. Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary, cementing his position as the Democratic front-runner for president. With 97 percent of the expected vote counted,1 Sanders had 26 percent of the vote, while former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg had 24 percent. The big surprise of the night was Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who finished third with 20 percent. After
538 (ABC News)Apr 22 2020
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The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Forcing U.S. Doctors to Ration Care for All Patients
Lianne Kraemer knows she’s in a precarious position. She has stage-4, terminal breast cancer that has spread to her brain. To keep it from penetrating further into other organs, she’s currently on chemotherapy, which weakens her body and puts her at high risk for a number of health problems—including infectious diseases like COVID-19.
Soon after public health officials identified SARS-
Time MagazineMar 22 2015
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Jeb Bush’s Team Plots Vast Effort to Win Florida
The political apparatus surrounding former Gov. Jeb Bush, determined to avoid embarrassment in a state that has vexed his party and family in national elections, is plotting a vast operation aimed at turning Florida into a bulwark for his presidential campaign, according to dozens of interviews.
The plan, code-named “Homeland Security,” seeks to try to neutralize two potentially grave
New York Times (News)Jun 04 2019
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Centrist Democrats are back. But these are not your father’s Blue Dogs.
Capitol Hill’s Blue Dog coalition has a host of new members, whose demographic profiles are more reflective of today’s Democratic Party. Some say as the center has shifted left, the group’s agenda has moved as well.
When Mikie Sherrill first ran into the congressional Blue Dog coalition in 2018, she wasn’t sure it would be the place for her.
She knew the caucus focused on fiscal
Christian Science MonitorNov 07 2019
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A gerrymandering dirty dozen: What experts see as the House’s worst districts
How do you know when you've seen a gerrymandered district? Maybe it looks like a duck or a snake, or a pair of earmuffs. Or maybe there's no obvious sign that the mapmakers played games with the contours in order to ensure a particular electoral outcome inside those boundaries.
The last contests using the current set of congressional maps are a year away. After that, the results of the
The FulcrumNov 03 2020
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Republicans have dominated redistricting. Here’s why that could change.
State-level politics matter a lot to voters’ lives, from new laws to the drawing of political districts. While “down-ballot” races tend to get little attention, this year some significant rebalancing of power in state legislatures could occur.
Georgia residents Larry and Helene Hunt – an African American couple who vote straight-ticket Democrat – have figured out over the years that “
Christian Science MonitorOct 22 2020
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US election 2020: Trump's impact on immigration - in seven charts
Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2016 with a pledge to bring down illegal immigration, famously blaming undocumented migrants from Mexico for a host of problems, including drugs and crime. In the four years since, how has this rhetoric translated into a wider immigration policy?
The number of immigrants living in the US has continued to rise under President Trump, but more
BBC NewsJul 18 2020
Analysis
Potential Key to the 2020 Election: Voters Who Can't Stand Both Trump and Biden
Voters who can't stand either major-party presidential nominee could be one of the keys to the election—and unlike in 2016, that might be bad news for President Donald Trump.
Four years ago, in a contest between two of the least-liked presidential nominees in history, Trump benefitted from the number of voters who found him slightly less detestable than Hillary Clinton. But a new
ReasonSep 27 2016
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‘Black Guns Matter’ Founder: Gun Control Keeps Urban Residents Dependent on Government
During a recent conversation with Breitbart News, Black Guns Matter (BGM) founder Maj Toure explained that gun control is one of the tools Democrats use to keep urban residents dependent on government. Regarding Chicago’s South Side, Baltimore’s inner city, and other similar, Democrat-run areas, Toure said: There are people deliberately trying to make the urban demographic poor, uneducated,
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