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5 Long-Overdue Changes We Need in American Government
If the 2016 presidential election is proving anything, it’s that voters are not happy with the state of their union.On the left and right, we’re seeing insurgents give establishment candidates a run f ...
18 Feb, 2016
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OPINION: Why More Democrats Should Hope Sanders Wins the Nomination
To win, the most important thing the next president will need to do is mobilize voters.Obama won in 2008 and 2012 by mobilizing new voters -- mostly youth and black voters. By 2012, those constit ...
18 Feb, 2016
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Engineered by the RNC, Winner-Take-All Primaries Are Now The Party's Worst Nightmare
Three establishment candidates remain standing in the GOP race — Kasich, Rubio, and Bush. Reince Priebus needs two of them to drop out soon, or he and the other GOP establishment pooh-bahs may be face ...
16 Feb, 2016
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Don't Let Superdelegates (or Anything Else) Scare You Out of Voting
After Bernie Sanders’ decisive win in the New Hampshire primary, a brouhaha has erupted over the delegate count. More specifically, the role of superdelegates has been highlighted, and many of Senator ...
16 Feb, 2016
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Pew: Traditionally 'Electable' Candidates Are Losing Their Appeal among Voters
The Pew Research Center conducted a series of surveys to learn about voter preferences and more specifically what presidential qualities voters are looking for in 2016. The results show that registere ...
16 Feb, 2016
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Sorry, Ms. Maddow, Everything is Not Alright with Our Democracy
Rachel Maddow said Friday night that Bernie Sanders' campaign may be in trouble because it is based upon voter turnout -- that in Iowa and New Hampshire the number of Democrats voting in this year's c ...
15 Feb, 2016
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DNC Chair: Superdelegates Exist to Protect Party Leaders from Grassroots Competition
https://youtu.be/w5llLIKM9YcDemocratic National Committee chair and Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz explained the motive behind the Democratic Party’s appointment of unpledged delegates ...
12 Feb, 2016
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Why Are So Many Millennials Feeling the Bern?
Thanks to the millennials, Bernie Sanders has just beaten Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire and continues to surprise both Democrats and Republicans across the nation. Many people struggle to understan ...
12 Feb, 2016
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Is This Any Way to Run A Country?
I am not a “numbers guy,” but from baseball to politics, numbers fascinate me.Following the Iowa Caucuses, I wrote about the fact that the national media had OD'd on a state unworthy of their time, at ...
11 Feb, 2016
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Bernie Sanders Drops Another Huge Money Bomb after New Hampshire
The "money bomb," a term that took on new meaning during Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign when he raised over $4.2 million in 24 hours (Paul's biggest money bomb ended up being $6 milli ...
11 Feb, 2016
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