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Clean Elections: The Latest Victim of Party Politics in Maine
The partisan bickering in the Legislature has claimed another victim: Clean Elections.In 1996, Maine voters decided they’d had enough with how campaigns were funded, and they passed the Maine Clean El ...
21 Jun, 2018
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OPINION: Both Parties Have Exploited Racism for Political Gain
Throughout slavery, Reconstruction and the movement for civil rights, African Americans in the U.S. have faced racism, social disparities, and oppression. While things have advanced for us significant ...
20 Jun, 2018
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Iowa Independent Voters Will Decide Who Wins IA-1 Congressional Election
Iowa independent voters are watching the nation's politics as closely as the nation watches Iowa to understand political trends.As goes Iowa, so goes the nation. So they've been saying since at latest ...
18 Jun, 2018
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Is China Playing Trump Like A Fiddle?
“Look Around the Poker Table; If You Can’t See the Sucker, You’re It”In the year and a half that Donald Trump has served as president, one of his most consistent punching bags (save for Robert Mueller ...
18 Jun, 2018
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The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex: Where do Drug Sale Profits Really Go?
Most of America hates Big Pharma. You can quantify it. But many of the sins committed by the Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex fall outside the reach of brand name pharmaceutical companies that tend t ...
13 Jun, 2018
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The Myths, The Facts, The Future: Everything You Need to Know About Ranked Choice Voting
Partisan gerrymandering. Money in politics. The Electoral College. Undue restrictions on who votes and how we vote. Every contentious election issue discussed today was either inherited from 18th-cent ...
11 Jun, 2018
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Iowa Primary Update: Healthcare And A Remarkable Young Woman
Iowa went Trump in 2016, which saw the Democrats blown out of the water that year. Iowa Democrats are seeking to un-fracture their party which saw supporters defect from establishment candidate Hillar ...
06 Jun, 2018
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Politics for the People Book Club: Independents Are Indeed Rising
This month, I invited Frank Fear to review the book, Independents Rising: Outside Movements, Third Parties, and the Struggle for a Post-Partisan America. Jacqueline Salit, the president of Indepe ...
06 Jun, 2018
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New Mexico: Where Voter Choice Goes to Die?
The headline may sound sensational, but trust me: there is a lot of truth to it.New Mexico held its primary elections on Tuesday, June 5. It is a closed primary state, which means only registered Repu ...
05 Jun, 2018
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Iowa Primary: 'Battle Ground Primary' Features Healthcare
Health care is running front and center in the three Iowa races.Iowa went Trump in 2016, which saw the Democrats blown out of the water that year. Iowa Democrats are seeking to un-fracture their party ...
05 Jun, 2018
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