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Republican Mia Love Likely to Win Utah's 4th Congressional District
Utah's fourth congressional district is up for grabs after Democrat Jim Matheson announced his retirement last year. Returning after a narrow loss against Matheson in 2012, Republican Mia Love is the ...
20 Jan, 2014
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How Do I Vote? Everything You Need to Know by State
Table of Contents State-by-state Information How Do Primaries Work? Partisan v. Nonpartisan Closed (Partisan) Semi-Closed (Partisan) Open (Partisan) Open (Nonpartisan) Variants of Traditional Election ...
17 Jan, 2014
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Three Numbers that Come Before 10: Why the Tenth Amendment does not Create 50 Little Countries
Now that same sex marriages can be legally performed in 17 states (plus the District of Columbia), the other states are starting to feel the pressure that comes when you are on the wrong side of the z ...
16 Jan, 2014
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What Are the Different Types of Primary Elections?
Primaries first began in the early twentieth century as a response to increasingly strong party control over elections. At the time, voters wanted a larger say in who would be chosen as their candidat ...
16 Jan, 2014
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There Will Be No House Divided: Defining Marriage and the Art of Being a Country
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. . . . It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public ...
15 Jan, 2014
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California Senators to NSA: Not So Fast, We Follow the Fourth Amendment
A bipartisan team of California lawmakers is pushing a bill through California's legislature that would prevent any state-related entity from disclosing information on citizens to federal agents ...
07 Jan, 2014
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Taxpayers Continue to Flee States with Heaviest Tax Burdens
United Van Lines (UVL) is one of the largest moving companies in the United States. Each year since 1977, UVL has issued a study of interstate migration patterns. This study reports the share of outbo ...
03 Jan, 2014
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Proposed Legislation to Protect Cellphone Privacy Has Broad Public Support
In a world where privacy seems to be continually decreasing, one man has dared to fight back. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) plans to make a push for regulations protecting cellphone users from go ...
12 Dec, 2013
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No Labels to Release National Strategy for Bipartisan Cooperation
There is one group in Washington that believes it is in the best position to bridge the partisan divide hampering many of the decisions in Congress. No Labels is composed of lawmakers and policy leade ...
04 Nov, 2013
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Healthcare.gov: What Happens When Politics Trumps Policy
This weekend brought more than a modicum of clarity to what happened behind the scenes in the run-up to the Oct. 1 launch of Healthcare.gov.In a devastating story, Amy Goldstein and Juliet Eilper ...
04 Nov, 2013
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