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Stacey Abrams ends bid to be Georgia governor but threatens suit over Kemp's 'gross mismanagement' Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams ended her hard-fought gubernatorial bid Friday against GOP opponent Brian Kemp, but she threatened to bring a lawsuit over Kemp's "gross mismanagement" of state voting laws in his capacity as secretary of state. The Hill...	Kerry Eleveld	11/16/2018	61	92	-	-
GOP leadership pathetically begs Trump for new attorney general pick rather than doing their jobs Senate GOP leadership is desperate not to act on the Protect Mueller bill, co-sponsored by two GOP members, that's already cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee. So desperate, in fact, they're trying to reason Donald Trump into the swift nomination of...	Kerry Eleveld	11/16/2018	35	110	-	-
Democrats represent American economies of the future while many GOP districts lag America's politics aren't the only thing that's polarized, so are America's economies. The growing divide between the country's more economically vibrant and diverse areas and it's less dynamic monolithic regions is another factor in what's driving...	Kerry Eleveld	11/16/2018	2	13	-	-
Trump golfing buddy Lindsey Graham set to take over Senate Judiciary Committee After completing his whirlwind transition from John McCain bestie to Donald Trump acolyte, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is set to assume one of the most important positions related to Trump's survival: Chair of the Senate Judiciary...	Kerry Eleveld	11/16/2018	66	70	-	-
Trump had 'this Russia thing' on the brain once again with his attorney general appointment Donald Trump recreated one of his biggest Russia-probe bloopers from 2017 in a Wednesday interview with the conservative outlet the Daily Caller. After famously telling NBC's Lester Holt last year that "this Russia thing" was on his mind when he fired...	Kerry Eleveld	11/15/2018	39	91	-	-
What blue wave? Trump mini-me Mike Pence declares midterms 'a great win' for Republicans When Donald Trump moves his water bottle, Vice President Mike Pence moves his water bottle. When Trump says the midterms were nearly "a complete victory," Pence also sees "a great win for our side."  "We were very encouraged by the results. We...	Kerry Eleveld	11/15/2018	106	78	-	-
So much for 'all politics are local' and 'it's the economy, stupid'—it's actually just Trump You're either with Trump or against him. That was the main lesson of 2018. The economy—of the much-touted political axiom “it's the economy, stupid”—is humming along at a decent clip. But it did virtually nothing to save Trump and his eager Republican...	Kerry Eleveld	11/15/2018	59	97	-	-
Without Pelosi, Democrats wouldn't have even had health care to run on. She should be speaker. In case anyone has forgotten, Nancy Pelosi has been a more effective legislator than the last three GOP House speakers combined. Her crown jewel is having passed a healthcare bill in 2010 that extended insurance coverage to 20-plus million more...	Kerry Eleveld	11/14/2018	622	483	-	-
Polls: Midterms were a repudiation of GOP rule and a mandate to check Trump Donald Trump has good reason to be epically pouty these days, and America’s voters agree. A CNN poll finds that 53 percent of American say the midterms were a rejection of Republican policies. Additionally, those who view the election as a mandate for...	Kerry Eleveld	11/14/2018	30	109	-	-
With each passing day, Democrats grow stronger while Trump grows weaker Last week's Democratic rout is starting to settle in among some Republicans. Even with the structural disadvantages of GOP gerrymandering, Democrats are now poised to pick up anywhere between 35 and 40 seats. And Democrat Kyrsten Sinema's win in...	Kerry Eleveld	11/14/2018	189	168	-	-
Once-safe gerrymandered GOP districts get decimated by Trump Democrats have won at least 15 of the 25 GOP-held districts with the highest concentration of college-educated residents, according to Politico. The districts were part of a large swath of mostly suburban seats that were intentionally gerrymandered to...	Kerry Eleveld	11/13/2018	66	112	-	-
Is Trump's 'Ponzi scheme' crumbling? Several weeks ago, a GOP strategist told SiriusXM's Michelangelo Signorile that Donald Trump's hold on his followers is a Ponzi scheme. "It only works as long as it appears to work," Signorile observes. "A few major losses can bring the whole...	Kerry Eleveld	11/13/2018	298	351	-	-
Trump repulsion in the suburbs reshapes national map for 2020 Donald Trump repels people with a college education—women more than men. But still, "Trump is kryptonite in the suburbs," retiring GOP Rep. Ryan Costello told Bloomberg. Based on nationwide exit polls, Democrats won college educated whites by 8 points...	Kerry Eleveld	11/13/2018	86	92	-	-
House Democrats weigh investigating Trump's links to Russian money laundering As Democrats eye a fecund field of investigative options, Donald Trump's ties to Russian money laundering provides one relatively untapped area of inquiry. Incoming Democratic House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff has expressed interest in the topic...	Kerry Eleveld	11/12/2018	101	124	-	-
Democrats call for adding 'Protect Mueller' measure to government funding bill Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Sunday for a provision that would protect the special counsel's Russia investigation to be added to a government funding bill that's due to be considered in the coming weeks. Democrats are working to...	Kerry Eleveld	11/12/2018	27	93	-	-
Rick Scott denied: Florida judge can't find 'any evidence' to impound Broward voting machines A Florida judge on Monday morning denied Florida Governor and Senate candidate Rick Scott's request to impound Broward County voting machines and ballots when they were not in use, a move that appeared to be a nakedly partisan effort to cast doubt on...	Kerry Eleveld	11/12/2018	132	273	-	-
View from the Left: Democrats' 2018 win lays out strategy for 2020 Democrats won Tuesday and they won bigly. Their House pickups represented their best performance in any single election since Watergate, when in 1974 voters elevated 49 new Democrats to office. At the time of this writing, 34 new Democrats had been...	Kerry Eleveld	11/10/2018	90	86	-	-
No, counting votes IS NOT stealing votes, and Florida's votes still haven't been counted Campaign Action Republicans are quickly whipping up their Florida base into a virulent froth, with GOP protesters descending on Broward County to accuse Democrats of committing “voter fraud.” In particular, they are targeting Broward County...	Kerry Eleveld	11/09/2018	144	174	-	-
Democrats were epically NOT IN DISARRAY this election cycle The first jolt to the DC punditry has been trying to absorb that, actually, Tuesday was a wave election and Democrats totally kicked butt (perhaps even in the Senate given the electoral map). But here's the second mind-blowing realization for...	Kerry Eleveld	11/09/2018	126	183	-	-
Paul Ryan deserves as much credit for the GOP's midterm trouncing as Trump One of the more enjoyable reads in the election post-mortem was the New York Times's "How the House fell." The article lays out the striking contrast between how the GOP's divided caucus helped seal their own defeat while a hyper-disciplined Democratic...	Kerry Eleveld	11/08/2018	143	133	-	-
Sorry, Trump, it was absolutely a blue wave The Upshot's Nate Cohn writes that House Democrats are projected to win the popular vote nationwide by 7 to 8 points once all the votes are counted. That's slightly better than the GOP's margin in 2010 or even 1994 and roughly the same as the...	Kerry Eleveld	11/08/2018	154	135	-	-
Trump just made a huge miscalculation in firing Jeff Sessions The very day after Americans sent the crystal-clear message that they want Democratic oversight of his presidency, Donald Trump decided the smart move was to take aggressive action that will in fact require House Democrats to use those oversight...	Kerry Eleveld	11/07/2018	420	324	-	-
Pelosi lays out vision of competent governance for nation, a welcome salve at a critical time Donald Trump and Republicans spent the past two years governing in a vacuum of competence and leadership. On Wednesday, likely Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a message: That ends right here, right now. "When we go down any of these paths, we’ll...	Kerry Eleveld	11/07/2018	110	129	-	-
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson isn't conceding: 'We are proceeding to a recount' Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson is not conceding his Florida seat to challenger Rick Scott. "We are proceeding to a recount," Nelson said in a statement, according to TPM. On Wednesday morning, Nelson was lagging behind Scott by some 35,000 votes,...	Kerry Eleveld	11/07/2018	217	208	-	-
Republicans governed like their base was all that mattered—it cost them the House After a thin slice of some 80,000 votes in several Rust Belt states tipped the presidency toward Donald Trump in 2016, Republicans decided to govern as if they had a bulletproof mandate. Instead of formulating bills on major issues that might draw some...	Kerry Eleveld	11/06/2018	123	121	-	-
Republicans could have taken a moral stand against Trump's racism. They didn't—now they're worried Having watched Donald Trump burn through state after state with the darkest, most blatantly racist message in a generation of politicians, Republicans are having second thoughts after clinging to Trump like an electoral life vest. In fact, some of...	Kerry Eleveld	11/06/2018	102	118	-	-
Young people this cycle have doubled their 2014 early vote totals Early voting by young people this cycle is already up 125 percent over early vote totals from 2014, according to a progressive voter database group called Catalist. The data holds potential for Democrats because voters age 18 to 29 typically skew more...	Kerry Eleveld	11/05/2018	55	95	-	-
Nearly every undecided Independent female broke for Democrats over last six months If you're wondering how Donald Trump’s racist fearmongering among other things has been playing to Independent female voters, here's some insight from Civiqs Director Drew Linzer: Over the past six months, nearly every undecided Independent female...	Kerry Eleveld	11/05/2018	86	115	-	-
Democrats appear to be closing strong in final stretch The final round of polling before Election Day held some good news for Democrats. Though the generic ballot in several new high-quality polls gave Democrats around the same 8-point edge (give or take) that it has for the last month, the fundamentals in...	Kerry Eleveld	11/05/2018	210	179	-	-
Take Trump literally—he's a nationalist and a threat to our democracy as we know it Last week, Donald Trump declared himself a "nationalist" while campaigning for Sen. Ted Cruz in Houston. "We’re not supposed to use that word,’” Trump told his Texas acolytes. “You know what I am? I’m a nationalist. OK? I’m a nationalist.” ...	Kerry Eleveld	11/03/2018	92	122	-	-
If Democrats succeed on Election Day, women will be one big reason There has been a lot of reporting on the phenomenon of white college-educated women moving away from Republicans and, in some cases, running toward Democrats due to how repulsed they are by Donald Trump. Some of this has been anecdotal, but the polling...	Kerry Eleveld	11/02/2018	26	86	-	-
Nothing will be more predictive of Tuesday's outcome than YOUR VOTE The biggest sign yet that polls and polling models may turn out to be wildly wrong this year is the surge in early voting, which appears to be real and not simply a matter of the early vote cannibalizing Election Day voting. For instance, The Hill...	Kerry Eleveld	11/02/2018	39	73	-	-
Following Pittsburgh massacre, Trump deliberately doubled-down on racism to reclaim the spotlight In the wake of a week centered around the violence of pipe bombs and a tragic synagogue massacre, Donald Trump, egged on by his political team, knew just what to do. He needed to detract attention away from the carnage incited by his hateful rhetoric...	Kerry Eleveld	11/02/2018	21	69	-	-
Trump's nationalism, rippling through America's suburbs, is roiling the GOP As Donald Trump pulls out every nationalistic xenophobic trick in his political playbook, House Republicans in suburban swing districts are taking a beating this election. While there's a more data-driven case to be made for this, the New York Times is...	Kerry Eleveld	11/01/2018	145	272	-	-
White House promises immigration policy announcement, Trump delivers lie-laden anti-immigrant rant When the White House told news networks Donald Trump planned to make an important policy announcement regarding asylum Thursday afternoon, CNN chose to take it live, while MSNBC decided to fact-check it first and run whatever news came out of Trump’s...	Kerry Eleveld	11/01/2018	90	82	-	-
In at least 17 states, early vote totals have already exceeded the early vote in 2014 Time for your friendly reminder to get your vote on because, well, everybody's doing it! Okay, well, at least more than usual appear to be doing it. Without drawing any big conclusions here about which party this favors, it is absolutely notable...	Kerry Eleveld	11/01/2018	36	53	-	-
Trump 'self-destructing' as GOP heads into midterm with more of a whimper than a roar Just after Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court, Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio had good news for Donald Trump—Republicans just might hold on to both the Senate and the House in the upcoming election. That forecast had the...	Kerry Eleveld	10/31/2018	403	345	-	-
Nothing is boosting House Democrats more than Trump's racist, xenophobic closing argument In his final campaign push, Donald Trump is avoiding heading to places where he might hurt GOP incumbents, yet his constant racist, xenophobic attacks on immigrants and refugees are simply too incendiary to escape notice. That is terrible news for...	Kerry Eleveld	10/31/2018	28	77	-	-
Trump's random push to end 'birthright citizenship' didn't help Republicans in tough races one bit Donald Trump's spontaneous declaration that he wants to end the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship rights to babies born in the U.S. came entirely out of the blue, and now many White House aides hope it "just goes away," according to the...	Kerry Eleveld	10/31/2018	80	90	-	-
Pittsburgh residents stage solemn protest as Trump makes unwelcome visit Residents of the Squirrel Hill community staged a solemn protest Tuesday in opposition to Donald Trump's unwelcome visit to the Tree of Life Synagogue where 11 people were murdered Saturday in an anti-Semitic attack.  Although Trump was convinced by...	Kerry Eleveld	10/30/2018	56	115	-	-
No, both sides don't do it Republicans quickly got defensive after a week in which the objects of Donald Trump's merciless derision and dehumanizing attacks became the targets of two deranged people who sought to commit carnage in service of the venom they had been fed. Over...	Kerry Eleveld	10/30/2018	52	160	-	-
Trump scraps the House to focus his final campaign push on the Senate A quick look at Donald Trump’s final campaign itinerary tells you two things about the House: the White House likely thinks it’s a lost cause, and Trump probably can’t do anyone any good in important swing races anyway. Trump plans to scrap visits to...	Kerry Eleveld	10/29/2018	109	86	-	-
Trump's approvals plunge on Gallup, just like during his sick child-separation scheme Donald Trump's approval ratings have a taken a one-week hit on Gallup, logging a 4-point drop in approval from 44 to 40 percent between Oct. 21-28. Pundits have been marveling over Trump's recent gains in approval/favorability even as Democrats's...	Kerry Eleveld	10/29/2018	121	125	-	-
Military to deploy 5,000 troops to U.S. border as shrinking group of asylum-seeking refugees nears The U.S. military expects to deploy 5,000 troops to the southwest U.S. border in anticipation of the arrival of a group of migrants, most of whom plan to turn themselves over to authorities and seek asylum once they reach the U.S. Initial reports...	Kerry Eleveld	10/29/2018	114	64	-	-
White House, lowering expectations for midterms, points fingers at everyone but Trump Just a week out from the midterms, White House aides are acknowledging that the GOP's prospects for keeping the House are "challenging." But in classic Trumpian fashion, they're offering a host of reasons for why any election setbacks for Republicans...	Kerry Eleveld	10/29/2018	43	90	-	-
View from the Left: In a moment of national crisis, Trump flails while the FBI thrives Something menacing was happening this week and Donald Trump wanted America to know that he was right on top of it. Bombs intended for Trump's political opponents were being discovered on a daily basis, but that wasn't the real national emergency,...	Kerry Eleveld	10/27/2018	37	120	-	-
Trump's 'this Bomb stuff' tweet gets even worse When Donald Trump sent out a tweet early Friday morning trivializing a life-threatening national crisis as nothing more than “this ‘Bomb’ stuff,” the abhorrent tweet may have been even worse than it originally seemed. Not only was Trump fanning the...	Kerry Eleveld	10/26/2018	179	173	-	-
New poll shreds GOP's entire doctrine of financing tax cuts for rich by stealing from everyone else An NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll released Friday offered virtually nothing but bad news for Republicans, the worst of which centers around the tax cuts they passed for the nation's wealthiest. Not only do more Americans consistently oppose the law than...	Kerry Eleveld	10/26/2018	78	153	-	-
Trump is angry all this 'Bomb stuff' has disrupted his fake 'caravan' crisis Donald Trump has a habit of hearing something and then spewing out his gut reaction on Twitter, and here’s part of what spilled out Friday morning. Let’s start with the obvious—this tweet is the despicable work of a sociopath casting a...	Kerry Eleveld	10/26/2018	119	153	-	-
Poll: Majority of Americans say their financial situation hasn't improved since Trump took office One of the reasons the tax cut for the rich hasn't sold well on the campaign trail is because it wasn't designed to do much for most Americans and, guess what? It didn't according to a poll released this week by Bankrate. The Hill writes: Of those...	Kerry Eleveld	10/25/2018	35	91	-	-
Trump declares: 'We don't have tariffs anywhere.' U.S. farmers and businesses will be relieved Here's a midterm-inspired claim from the delusional occupier of the Oval Office: "We don’t have tariffs anywhere." Sure, other than the ones Donald Trump and his administration has imposed on $300 billion worth of foreign goods. So to all the...	Kerry Eleveld	10/25/2018	53	80	-	-
When will the GOP take down its ad targeting liberal citizens as 'An Unhinged Mob'? Following the first wave of bombs targeting Donald Trump’s political opponents, GOP House Majority Whip Steve Scalise condemned the act in strong terms.  “These attempted attacks that have been made are beyond criminal, they are acts of pure terror....	Kerry Eleveld	10/25/2018	26	70	-	-
Trump evoked the vision of 'American carnage' we are now living In Donald Trump's first address as leader of this country, he painted a picture of an ailing nation: people "trapped in poverty," aged factories "scattered like tombstones" across the landscape, and criminals and drugs robbing "our country of so much...	Kerry Eleveld	10/24/2018	50	73	-	-
CNN president takes White House to task for fomenting hatred of media: 'Words matter' CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker issued a strong statement Wednesday after the outlet's New York headquarters was evacuated due to receiving a bomb in the mail. "There is a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the...	Kerry Eleveld	10/24/2018	93	138	-	-
New poll: Kavanaugh effect still helping Democrats more A new poll released Wednesday provided more evidence that the supposed "bump" Republicans got from the battle over confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court really boosted Democratic candidates more. While more than 60 percent of voters said...	Kerry Eleveld	10/24/2018	19	82	-	-
After Trump spent a week hyping fake 'caravan' crisis, he goes mute on actual terrorism After a spate of explosive devices targeting progressives and Democratic lawmakers surfaced Wednesday morning, all Donald Trump could muster in the midst of the crisis was a meager three-word tweet. "I agree wholeheartedly," he wrote, retweeting a...	Kerry Eleveld	10/24/2018	114	123	-	-
'There's no proof of anything': Trump admits his migrant 'Middle Easterners' were pure fantasy "There's no proof of anything." That's the qualifier that should come with basically every statement Donald Trump ever makes, from his fervent claim that "there is no collusion" with Russia to the "millions and millions" of people who he said voted...	Kerry Eleveld	10/23/2018	81	91	-	-
GOP heads into midterms with zero policy goals other than targeting Pelosi, refugees, and media If voters have known one thing for sure about Republicans ever since 2010, it's that once they had the power to do so, they would absolutely repeal the Affordable Care Act (i.e. Obamacare). Except that over the three election cycles in which they made...	Kerry Eleveld	10/23/2018	24	64	-	-
After GOP savaged middle-class Americans, Trump suddenly champions Democratic policies Remember when Republicans dedicated most of their first year in power to trying to kill pre-existing conditions coverage while stripping millions of Americans of health care coverage? Then when they failed at that, they immediately turned their...	Kerry Eleveld	10/23/2018	31	64	-	-
Roger Stone vows not to 'roll on the president' as Mueller closes in—sound familiar? Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone is heading down a road oft traveled by other Trump associates. In a recently taped fundraising plea, Stone assured his viewers that even though Special Counsel Robert Mueller was probing "every aspect" of his...	Kerry Eleveld	10/22/2018	49	89	-	-
If they win the House, Democrats plan to delve back into the Russia probe House Democrats on the Intelligence Committee are ready to pick up where their GOP counterparts left off on the Russia probe when they summarily shut it down after declaring they found no evidence of collusion. In doing so, the GOP House left a trail...	Kerry Eleveld	10/22/2018	42	69	-	-
Support for ACA repeal drops among Republican voters as Democrats drive home healthcare debate If you're wondering why Republican candidates have been rushing to trumpet their support for the pre-existing conditions coverage guaranteed by the Affordable Care Act, it's because voter support for that very popular provision is soaring after...	Kerry Eleveld	10/22/2018	25	84	-	-
View from the Left: Reeling on health care, Republicans double down on anti-immigrant racism In several tweets on Thursday, Donald Trump gave up Republicans' greatest weaknesses heading into the midterms: their biggest Achilles heel is how unpopular what they tried to do on health care ...	Kerry Eleveld	10/20/2018	10	40	-	-
Schumer on health care: 'What McConnell did in the last three days is a game changer for us' Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is sounding pretty bullish just a few days after GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled Republicans' deepest desires to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and take another whack at repealing the...	Kerry Eleveld	10/19/2018	235	224	-	-
Forget Trump's closing argument, Democrats should play the game they're winning: health care On Thursday, Trump explicitly told us which issue he wanted everyone to forget about—health care and pre-existing conditions coverage. "All Republicans support people with pre-existing conditions, and if they don’t, they will after I speak to them," he...	Kerry Eleveld	10/19/2018	32	88	-	-
Chief architect of the GOP tax scam runs from it on the campaign trail Illinois Rep. Peter Roskam of the 6th Congressional District had big plans for how the Republican tax giveaway to the rich was going to help lift the GOP to victory in the midterms. But now that same plan is being wielded against him on the campaign...	Kerry Eleveld	10/18/2018	14	71	-	-
Where's all the mainstream lampooning of McConnell for handing Democrats a midterm gift? Conservative pundits have been all over Democrats in recent weeks for supposedly handing Republicans political gifts, such as Hillary Clinton and former Attorney General Eric Holder recently advocating for fighting Republicans more aggressively. ...	Kerry Eleveld	10/18/2018	54	92	-	-
Democrats crushed fundraising in both 'Competitive' AND 'Republican-held' districts Earlier this week, we learned that Democratic candidates overall had outraised their GOP counterparts by about $80 million ($252 to $172 million), fueled in part by an insanely good third quarter. Now The Economist is giving us another layer of detail...	Kerry Eleveld	10/17/2018	20	60	-	-
Democrats pounce as McConnell lobbies for cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Pundits are often quick to jump on Democrats for their messaging blunders, but frankly Mitch McConnell made about the biggest messaging gaffe possible Tuesday when he explicitly put some of the government's most popular programs on the chopping block....	Kerry Eleveld	10/17/2018	158	168	-	-
Journalists are obsessing over a new voter—suburban women—and not a moment too soon Oh, yes, surely we will still be hearing liberally from Trump voters whose only regret is their hero's failure thus far to actually drop someone on 5th Avenue. But even Washington journalists seem to have tired of them a bit. And just in time for the...	Kerry Eleveld	10/17/2018	44	88	-	-
Ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen has been spending A LOT of quality time with federal investigators Ex-Trump lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen seems intent on atoning for his work promoting Donald Trump and although you may not necessarily be excited about his switch in party ID, you likely will be enthused about Emily Jane Fox's latest reporting: ...	Kerry Eleveld	10/16/2018	57	126	-	-
As Nate Silver reminds us: We gotta run all the way through the tape on Nov. 6 Nate Silver has been issuing a lot of cautionary tweets lately about which party is likely to win which chamber (or both) and even about specific races, like the Texas Senate matchup between Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz. There’s one thing Silver is...	Kerry Eleveld	10/16/2018	57	134	-	-
Democrats have democratized fundraising and it's overwhelming Republicans It's no secret by now that small-dollar donors are on fire this cycle and swamping Republican candidates with their cash push toward Democratic candidates. The New York Times crunched the third quarter numbers and found "Democrats outraised their...	Kerry Eleveld	10/16/2018	29	96	-	-
Republicans governed like their base was the electorate, now the rest of America CAN'T WAIT to vote As Republican lawmakers devoted two years of uni-governmental control to continuously pushing Trump initiatives with less than 50 percent voter approval, they developed a self-soothing mantra: Trump might be unpopular but his approvals with the GOP...	Kerry Eleveld	10/15/2018	40	121	-	-
So-called 'Trump country' prepares to give GOP candidates the heave-ho Journalists are finally catching on to the fact that all those voters they obsessed over in the Rust Belt, the so-called Trump Democrats, are poised to deliver some lethal blows to Republicans next month at the polls. As we noted last week, the GOP...	Kerry Eleveld	10/15/2018	27	105	-	-
How much do Republicans despise women? Oh, let them count the ways Republicans have worked hard to turn their " angry mob " charge into a generalized smear on Democrats . But Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reminded us once again Thursday where that ...	Kerry Eleveld	10/13/2018	70	149	-	-
Trump's tariffs are costing Americans $1.4 billion per month, says new business coalition Donald Trump has suffered some blows this week to his claim that everything is fine and dandy with the economy, and all because of him, of course. But while unemployment began its steady decline during the Obama years as did the stock market's climb,...	Kerry Eleveld	10/12/2018	39	63	-	-
Republicans deploy their 'Don't put the womenfolk in charge' ad campaign to clinch the elections It's not tax cuts for the rich. It's not Brett Kavanaugh. It's not the economy, stupid. It's private citizen Hillary Clinton and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi who are going to clinch this thing for Republicans. Politico writes: Over the last...	Kerry Eleveld	10/12/2018	76	103	-	-
Kavanaugh isn't helping Republicans one bit in Middle America Remember when then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, in a fit of pique, asked Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar if she had ever blacked out from binge drinking? "You're asking about black out, I don't know, have you?" Kavanaugh clapped back at...	Kerry Eleveld	10/12/2018	109	168	-	-
In bid for donations, GOP operative warns a 'green wave' is coming this November Republicans are starting to panic. Progressive enthusiasm is driving small-dollar donations at an unprecedented rate, giving Democratic candidates a sizable spending edge. According to a “competitive summary” compiled by GOP insiders, Democratic...	Kerry Eleveld	10/11/2018	6	48	-	-
Trump loses his luster, even among Fox viewers Donald Trump gave Fox News a make-up interview Thursday morning after the outlet took a pass on carrying his Wednesday night rally in Eerie, PA. See, Trump's been downgraded at Fox, mostly because even Fox viewers just aren't that into him anymore....	Kerry Eleveld	10/11/2018	108	99	-	-
The GOP's top-of-the-ticket problem could cost it control of the House Republicans have a huge problem in more than half a dozen states that alone could provide Democrats the 23 seats needed to take back the House next month. In seven states that are home to 29 competitive races this season, the GOP's gubernatorial...	Kerry Eleveld	10/11/2018	21	63	-	-
Always cool in a crisis: Trump attacks Fed as 'crazy' after stock sell-off If the nation confronts a protracted crisis, we're doomed. Following Wednesday’s stock sell-off that sent the Dow tumbling by more than 800 points, Trump sought to calm the nation by calling the Fed "crazy." Investors were reportedly worried about...	Kerry Eleveld	10/10/2018	129	105	-	-
Men control the political narrative right up until women cast their votes on Nov. 6 After one NPR poll last week suggested GOP voter enthusiasm was spiking to match that of Democrats, congressional Republicans started selling the narrative that the fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation was benefitting the GOP more than Democrats....	Kerry Eleveld	10/10/2018	50	83	-	-
With farmers souring on him, Trump drops goodies on corn country You know your party is facing stiff headwinds in a state when the deep-red district of a fire-breather like Iowa Rep. Steve King gets downgraded to “likely Republican” by Cook Political Report. With his administration’s tariff war wreaking havoc in...	Kerry Eleveld	10/09/2018	45	70	-	-
The GOP's 'angry mob' smear against women will backfire—wait and see Republicans think they have found a political winner in labeling last week's wave of protesters led by sexual assault survivors as an "angry mob" of "screamers." It's a tactic aimed at demonizing victims and turning them into monsters, feeding an...	Kerry Eleveld	10/09/2018	101	157	-	-
If this CNN poll is what a GOP surge looks like, we'll take it! The first data points on the post-Kavanaugh Republican surge are looking good—for Democrats. As we noted Monday night, the enthusiasm gap favored those who opposed Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation by fully 18 points in CNN’s latest poll. Tuesday the...	Kerry Eleveld	10/09/2018	104	116	-	-
CNN Poll puts first crack in Conventional Wisdom that Democratic enthusiasm gap vanished First, let's hit some important top lines from the CNN poll released Monday showing that now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh is indeed supremely unpopular. Should Kavanaugh have been confirmed? No: 51 percent; Yes: 41 percent Do you believe the female...	Kerry Eleveld	10/08/2018	236	385	-	-
Trump's lawyers organized a concerted effort to coordinate with targets of Mueller's probe As special counsel Robert Mueller interviewed Donald Trump's circle of associates, Trump's lawyers formed a network of agreements with their lawyers in order to keep track of what Mueller was asking and whom he was targeting. Mutual cooperation, or...	Kerry Eleveld	10/08/2018	29	89	-	-
Rosenstein safe for now as he accompanies Trump on Air Force One The precarious position of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein may have been momentarily bolstered by the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Rosenstein flew to Florida Monday with Donald Trump, who appears to have been momentarily...	Kerry Eleveld	10/08/2018	88	52	-	-
Buck up, America: Kavanaugh's confirmation marks a beginning, not an end In January of 2006, as dozens of anti-gay marriage amendments were sweeping through the states, I began covering the LGBTQ movement for a local New York City paper. With the darkest days of a decade-long plague that decimated our community behind us,...	Kerry Eleveld	10/08/2018	79	201	-	-
View from the Left: Republicans officially declare themselves the party of men We all knew Donald Trump was going to blow his top at some point about the sexual assault accusations against his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. If there's one thing a self-professed predator can't stand, it's watching one of his own get taken...	Kerry Eleveld	10/06/2018	146	132	-	-
Two red-state women take courageous Kavanaugh votes; two red-state men use Collins as a human shield By all accounts, North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is the most endangered Democrat in the Senate, down by nearly 9 points in a state Trump won by 36 in 2016. Meanwhile, her male Democratic counterpart in West Virginia, Sen. Joe Manchin, enjoys a...	Kerry Eleveld	10/05/2018	125	107	-	-
Vision in cowardice: Manchin announces final support for Kavanaugh, cementing SCOTUS confirmation Just after Maine Sen. Susan Collins spent 50 minutes on the Senate floor rolling out the twisted logic of her support for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin finally decided he had enough cover to announce he would help...	Kerry Eleveld	10/05/2018	640	167	-	-
Grand Old Patriarchy plans to ride base's righteous rage over Kavanaugh to victory in November Republicans are pissed off. The idea that a man who violated a woman against her will should be investigated and possibly held to account is just too much. Not in their country! “Republicans perceive that Judge Kavanaugh is a man who has led an...	Kerry Eleveld	10/05/2018	178	104	-	-
Donations for Sen. Heidi Heitkamp spike after she declares 'NO' on Kavanaugh Democratic enthusiasm for North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s announcement that she would vote ‘No’ on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination gave her fundraising an immediate boost, albeit an unspecified amount. As grateful people across the nation...	Kerry Eleveld	10/04/2018	63	138	-	-
Don't believe the hype: Kavanaugh isn't helping the GOP in the House, net effect in Senate unclear After Democratic enthusiasm has been through the roof for two years since Trump's election, leaving a trail of dozens of red-to-blue seat flips in the states, the Washington media is now telling us that Democratic surge has all been wiped away by the...	Kerry Eleveld	10/04/2018	148	199	-	-
Senators expect to begin viewing FBI's new Kavanaugh background check on Thursday It's coming Thursday and nothing about the next 24 hours-plus is going to be pretty. Senate Republicans are already putting severe restrictions on how Democrats will be allowed to view the FBI's new background check on Supreme Court nominee Brett...	Kerry Eleveld	10/03/2018	82	80	-	-
Sarah Huckabee Sanders sells her soul again, claims Trump wasn't mocking Dr. Blasey Ford No surprise here: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders used her first press briefing in weeks to spew lies from a podium that's supposed to be dedicated to informing the American people. Now it's just a lie mill. "The president was...	Kerry Eleveld	10/03/2018	117	90	-	-
Chuck Grassley tries to smear Kavanaugh accuser with statement from guy who dated her TWO FULL WEEKS We’ve gotten to the point in the Brett Kavanaugh nomination story where the crotchety old Republican man running the Senate Judiciary Committee—still buzzed from Sen. Lindsey Graham’s testosterone-laden “White Men Unite!” diatribe last week—is just...	Kerry Eleveld	10/03/2018	80	149	-	-

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