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Two new high-quality polls suggest an electoral dagger could be coming for Donald Trump—if their findings persist. Both polls, from Marist College and NBC News, show third-party candidate Robert F.
by Kerry Eleveld
 137 comments
on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 07:45 AM PDT
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“Journalists can give the public what it needs to govern itself, but they can’t save democracy. That will be up to the American people.” George Packer, THE ATLANTIC, Jan/Feb 2024 At stake in the upcoming election is the survival of our democratic...
by Gregg Matson
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 03:48 PM PDT
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Republicans know most Americans aren’t fans of tax cuts for billionaires, more pollution, deregulation of polluting industries, high-priced drugs, privatizing Medicare, ending Social Security, criminalizing abortion and birth control, student debt,...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 08:02 AM PDT
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. erroneously contends President Joe Biden is more of a threat to U.S. democracy than former President Donald Trump, a notion political experts find to be “preposterous” and “absurd” Former President Donald J. Trump has declined to...
by frankfaiola
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 08:32 PM PDT
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First, there was Al Gore Al Gore campaigned against two candidates in 2000. One, of course, was George W Bush, who was elected President in spite of losing the popular vote. The other was Ralph Nader, who received just shy of 3,000,000 votes or 2.74%...
by akronrick
59 comments
on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 01:00 PM PDT
with 19 Recommends
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I find myself unable to ignore politics, and the upcoming election.
But, just posting numbers and predictions, that can get boring.
So, this week, I decided to post a fictional story.
A fictional ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
24 comments
on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 10:01 PM PDT
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When long-serving Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday he would step aside from his Senate leadership post in November, it may have seemed like a natural passing of the baton by a physically frail 82-year-old man. McConnell experienced...
by Kerry Eleveld
112 comments
on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 07:30 AM PST
with 205 Recommends
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a messaging masterclass over the weekend on NBC's "Meet The Press," beating back questions about whether President Joe Biden, 81, is too old to serve a second ...
by Kerry Eleveld
238 comments
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 03:30 PM PST
with 449 Recommends
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After a gusher of coverage about horse-race polls in which President Joe Biden is losing to Donald Trump, it's worth making note of a nagging asterisk: Trump keeps underperforming his polling in the ...
by Kerry Eleveld
160 comments
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM PST
with 281 Recommends
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I just reviewed some of the arguments made in the SCOTUS hearings regarding Colorado’s decision to remove Trump from their ballots under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. Here is the transcript. There is an exchange on pages 114-115 between...
by rmartin1241
10 comments
on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 04:29 PM PST
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America has sunk to a low I do not recognize. We know what is wrong with Trump. He is a narcissistic nut. The real question is what is wrong with half of America? I don’t understand and people who are wanting to be under fascism and dictatorship? Many...
by Vetwife
343 comments
on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 08:32 AM PST
with 342 Recommends
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One of the biggest disconnects between political reality and fantasy today is the near-certainty that President Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be the nominees of their respective parties and how many voters still view that as preposterous. That is...
by Kerry Eleveld
185 comments
on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 08:30 AM PST
with 186 Recommends
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And that’s all I have to say about that.
by Perlinator
7 comments
on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 05:11 PM PST
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According to recent polling and how things appear on social media, younger progressives are the democrats who are the least sold on supporting and voting for President Biden's reelection against Donald Trump. New Hampshire was looking bad for President...
by Dem
12 comments
on Sat Jan 27, 2024 at 11:43 AM PST
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There's no better soft-ball question for a candidate than "What's your closing argument to voters?" It's an electoral classic that can be rather illuminating, particularly when candidates flub their ...
by Kerry Eleveld
134 comments
on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 06:00 AM PST
with 185 Recommends
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When President Joe Biden delivers his campaign kickoff speech Friday, he is expected to lay bare that the stakes of the campaign season before us are nothing short of the preservation of democracy.
by Kerry Eleveld
154 comments
on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 02:08 PM PST
with 334 Recommends
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On Jan. 6, 2021, a man who lost an election tried to steal it. That man was Donald Trump, and the election was for president of the United States. Three years have passed. Three years of Trumpist lies about that day—coming from the...
by Ian Reifowitz
102 comments
on Fri Jan 05, 2024 at 06:15 AM PST
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Despite the fact that I like almost everybody at Daily Kos have sharp disagreements with Liz Cheney in almost every policy area with only a few exceptions, I have strongly supported her because she has been one of the strongest and few republican...
by Dem
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 01:13 PM PST
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It's no secret that young progressives are one of the most consequential and unpredictable voting blocs in next year's general election. They despise Donald Trump but are undeniably uninspired by President Joe Biden. While foreign policy isn't helping...
by Kerry Eleveld
242 comments
on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 03:18 PM PST
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As House Republicans weigh launching an impeachment proceeding against President Joe Biden for who the hell knows what, new polling shows nearly 7 in 10 voters (68%) in battleground congressional ...
by Kerry Eleveld
59 comments
on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 06:45 AM PST
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