Showing posts with label Democratic party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democratic party. Show all posts
Saturday, November 26, 2022

Good Commentary on Youth Vote and Its Significance for Future U.S. Elections

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Good commentary I've just read on the youth vote in the recent U.S. elections and what it may signify for the future:
Thursday, November 10, 2022

More Post-Election Commentary: "If they win, I should get all the credit. If they lose, I should not be blamed at all"

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Photo of stack of newspapers by Daniel R. Blume, Wikimedia Commons Post-election commentary continues. Here are some pieces I've read th...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Election Commentary: The Red Trickle, Youth Vote, Abortion, Trump's Rough Night

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Brian Tyler Cohen , "Lauren Boebert’s 'victory party' before and after she started losing to her opponent Judd Legum : The much...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Is It That the Democrats "Lost" White Christians, or That Obama's Elections Re-Energized GOP's "White Christian Strategy"?

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Yesterday's PRRI "Morning Buzz" email newsletter* discusses a recent article by Jack Jenkins' entitled " Democ...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Twitter Chews Over Election Results: "Thoughts and Prayers to all the Republican Politicians Who Lost Their Seats Today"

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Thoughts and prayers to all the Republican politicians who lost their seats today. We won't do anything to prevent it from happening a...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

A Twitter Thread in Response to Franklin Foer on What's Wrong with the Democrats

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No mention at all of the significant role played by gerrymandering and voter suppression to lock in GOP control, as a minority. 1) https:/...
Monday, January 9, 2017

Robert Leonard on Why Rural America Voted for Trump: A Critique of the Argument

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Robert Leonard's recent op-ed piece in New York Times on why rural America voted Trump is receiving a lot of attention as a coge...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Tired Old "Discussion" of Democrats As Anti-Religious after 2016 Elections: Valuable Recent Commentary

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I've never seen a group of people so happy to do such evil as take healthcare away from 30 million Americans. pic.twitter.com/kJJv5vdT...
Friday, July 29, 2016

"This Campaign Is a Choice Between a Normal Political Party and an Abnormal One": Ezra Klein on the (Moral) Choice Confronting American Voters in 2016

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Ezra Klein on the significance (a moral significance) of the 2016 U.S. presidential elections:
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Defensive Responses to Critiques of Hillary's "Misstatement" About Reagans and AIDS: What Do They Portend for Future of Democratic Politics?

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I've been noticing an interesting (yes, that word again) thing lately in comments in my circles of Facebook friends. I'd like...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Commentary on 2014 U.S. Elections Worth Reading

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New York Times editorial : The next Senate was just elected on the greatest wave of secret, special-interest money ever raised in...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Quote for Day: Thomas Frank on What's Still the Matter with Kansas

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Thomas Frank is incisive about the self-deluding, fatuous centrism (his word, and he's right) of the Democrats, who imagine that...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Jared Bernstein on Painful Lessons from "Fiscal Cliff" Crisis: Stop Negotiating with Renegades Holding Nation Hostage!

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Jared Bernstein at Salon on the next self-created trap that the minority party holding gerrymandered seats bought and paid for by th...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Big News: Obama and Democrats Enjoying Wide Lead Among Catholics

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The big news now vis-a-vis Catholics and politics in the U.S.: as Daniel Burke reports at Religion News Service, a Pew Research Center...
Friday, September 21, 2012

Catholics Ignoring Bishops, Trending Democratic As U.S. Elections Near: Polling Data, My Reflections

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Snatching a free moment later in the day to catch up on news-reading--and to post the following:
Saturday, September 8, 2012

News Roundup: Dolan at DNC, More on Finn Conviction, Eric Erickson and Michael Sean Winters

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Some end-of-week commentary that touches on issues I've discussed here of late: 1.  At Salon, Sarah Posner looks at the Demo...
Friday, September 7, 2012

Nation Editorial on GOP as Post-Truth Party

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The Nation 's latest editorial on the GOP as the "post-truth" party that "has now fully entered the netherworld ...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

GOP and Democrats on God-Talk and Faith: Rube Bait and the Least Among Us

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At National Catholic Reporter, Pat Perriello takes a close look at the Republican platform in 2012, and finds it lacking on ethical ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Amy Sullivan on Catholic Bishops' Paul Ryan Problem, Fred Clarkson on Mitt Romney's Dog Whistle to Religious Right

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Some good religion and politics commentary from the last several days:

GOP Attempt to Turn Back Clock and Restrict Minority Access to Polls: A Collection of Statements

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At The Nation site, Ari Berman draws the parallel I drew recently between current attempts of the GOP to bar minority voters from...