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The Predicament of Polling
If 2016 taught me anything, it is how disastrous political polls have become. And as we head into the 2018 midterms, we should take a hard look how we are conducting them, crunching the numbers and us ...
20 Apr, 2018
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6 min read
County of San Diego Joins Fight Against Sanctuary City Laws
It's no secret the State of California is tearing at its political seams, careening towards a tipping point with the Sanctuary City battle leading the way.TWO of the states THREE largest counties, bot ...
17 Apr, 2018
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3 min read
5 Groundbreaking Bills to Protect Child Wellbeing in the US
Every parent wants a healthy child, right? Too often, though, people neglect to consider just how much the events of childhood can leave a lasting impact on a child.For example, we have only very rece ...
13 Apr, 2018
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5 min read
With Straight Face, Penn. Politician Says Legislators Are "Most Accountable" to Redraw Electoral Districts
A bill in the Pennsylvania House to create an independent citizens' redistricting commission was rewritten to give the legislature even more control over the legislative redistricting process.Don't wo ...
13 Apr, 2018
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2 min read
A History Lesson from Dr. King for Reformers
The consequences of party-dominated elections; of closed party primaries, gerrymandered districts, and major party control of the ballot, of the media and of the debates, in addition to the partisan d ...
21 Mar, 2018
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6 min read
Supreme Court Rules in PA Gerrymandering Case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRqyYokJ97cVideo Source: CBS NewsThe Supreme Court turned down a request by Republican state lawmakers Monday to prevent Pennsylvania’s new congressional map from being ...
20 Mar, 2018
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2 min read
OPINION: American Democracy Is Dead!
Americans have to admit that our democracy -- the great experiment -- is dead. Our government does not look or function as our Founding Fathers intended. In fact, it has failed in the fundamental pu ...
05 Mar, 2018
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4 min read
Election Reformers: Let History Guide You. Lessons of How Slavery Formed our Two Political Parties
For me, history, the study of it and the making of it, has been an essential part of life.Growing up in the underground of the poor black community, reading became my salvation, and reading ...
22 Feb, 2018
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6 min read
PA’s Gerrymandering Case: What’s Going On and What’s Next?
Gerrymandering might be the issue of our time.You know that sinking feeling you get after every single election where you just can’t understand how one party won so many seats? Gerrymandering is ...
21 Feb, 2018
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4 min read
Black Voting Rights Leader: BOTH Parties Guilty of Voter Suppression
I am a physician and a black woman who grew up poor and came of age in the 1970’s. I‘ve spent 25 years practicing medicine, mainly in Harlem, and I care deeply about the state of our country, about th ...
16 Feb, 2018
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3 min read