Tag: elections
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One way to win to elections is to keep the people who support your opponent from voting. That’s why Republicans in New Hampshire proposed new laws last week making it difficult for college students to vote. Last year, a conservative group calling itself Latinos for Reform ran an ad suggesting ... Read More
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If you care about who gets elected in 2012, you better be prepared to open your wallet. The next election is going to be expensive. Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle told the Financial Times last week that it could cost the two main presidential nominees more than $2 billion. In ... Read More
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The U.S. is growing. According to the 2010 census the nation’s population grew 9.7% over the last decade. Most of that growth came in the South and West—the Northeast and Midwest each grew less during than 4% over the decade. Because many of the fastest growing states are also relatively ... Read More
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In the wake of losing at least 60 seats in the House—their largest defeat in 70 years—there have been widespread calls for currrent Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to step down from her leadership position in the Democratic caucus. Republicans had urged voters to get to the polls to “Fire ... Read More
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The Democrats are bracing for big losses in next week’s election. While the Democrats may, as Nate Silver argues, still have some modest chance of retaining both houses of Congress, Republicans have already started to prepare an agenda for next year. But in the end this election may be remembered ... Read More
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Conservatives have long accused billionaire George Soros of funding activist watchdog group Media Matters. Soros has been suspected of being behind every liberal group after giving more than $23 million dollars to progressive groups in 2004 and saying that he would give up his entire fortune ... Read More
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The Democrats are likely to take a beating in the fall midterm elections. Right now FiveThirtyEight projects that they will lose almost 50 seats in the House, and come close to losing the Senate as well. If that happens, pundits from across the political spectrum will lay the blame on President ... Read More
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It's not clear if the Democrats have the votes to get health care reform through Congress. Earlier versions of the bill have already passed both the House and the Senate—and, in the Senate's case, passed with a supermajority of 60 votes. Because the Democrats can use the reconciliation process ... Read More
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Perhaps it's not surprising that people take political results personally. We come to identify with our favored candidate—and sometimes to revile their opponent. When our party wins, we are elated; we it loses, we become dejected. Now a group of researchers has discovered that election results ... Read More
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