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IVN Daily Digest -- July 15, 2014
1. More than 1 in 5 Americans say replacing every member of Congress and starting fresh is the best way to fix Congress."One in seven (14%) say bipartisan cooperation is the ticket to fixing Congress. ...
15 Jul, 2014
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Gerrymandering Reduces Competition, Fuels Partisanship in House Elections
According to a Washington Post Election Lab projection from May 2014, an incumbent in 405 of the 435 House contests has a 90 percent chance or greater of winning his or her seat, leaving only 30 ...
14 Jul, 2014
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How Reliable Are Fact Check Sources?
In 2011, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman lamented that the proliferation of half-true statements and fallacious accusations during the 2012 presidential campaign had inaugura ...
11 Jul, 2014
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6 Reasons Why Benjamin Franklin is the Best Founding Father
Independence Day is usually celebrated -- most vocally anyway -- by used car dealerships and department stores. However, it's important for 'We the People' to remember who was driving the four-wheel l ...
04 Jul, 2014
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The New Radicals: How the Moderate Wing is Shaping the 2014 Elections
In the wake of last week's startling upset of Eric Cantor, it would be easy to believe that the political middle will once again be left out in the cold. Yet something unique is happening this primary ...
18 Jun, 2014
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How The Wis. Gay Marriage Ruling Will Affect November Elections
When a district court ruled that Wisconsin’s same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional, one onlooker exclaimed, “it’s like wildfire!” What she was referring to was the recent barrage of rulings that ...
13 Jun, 2014
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How the Trans-Pacific Partnership Affects Jobs, Trade, and Regulation
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been described as “the biggest free trade deal you’ve never heard of.” The arrangement would liberalize trade by bringing down protective tariffs and “harmonizi ...
12 Jun, 2014
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How Tom Wolf Won Penn's Democratic Gubernatorial Primary
In a probing and preliminary survey conducted by Harper in February 2013, a mere one percent of likely Democratic primary voters declared their preference for Tom Wolf, who had yet to officially annou ...
05 Jun, 2014
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More Republican Governors Accept Court Rulings on Gay Marriage
Demonstrating a national sea change in views toward same-sex marriage, Pennsylvania is the latest state to see its ban on same-sex marriage ruled unconstitutional in federal court. This time the law w ...
02 Jun, 2014
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Federal Judges Have Authority To Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Bans
What seemed like a long and daunting uphill battle just a few years ago, now seems like an inevitable reality. In the last 11 months, 14 states have had their bans on same-sex marriage struck down, an ...
27 May, 2014
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