Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Friday, March 28, 2014

The Nationalization of Elections

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The idea of a representative democracy is that in contrast to a President who elected nationally, there will be Senators elected from the va...
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Thursday, June 07, 2012

CD-1 analysis.

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One of the benefits of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission is that it has produced a much higher number of competitive district...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

GOP recruiting class just the same old retreads

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It seems as though Republicans are recruiting some candidates for Congress-- many of whom are the same old retreads who were part of the pro...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

Health Care Reform is not about being popular, it's about doing the right thing

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Now that it looks like health care reform is on its way to passing the Senate, the next hurdle down the road, Republicans are claiming that ...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

An army of Won.

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Barack Obama had a meeting earlier today with a group of House Republican leaders to discuss the proposed stimulus bill. He did as he had pl...
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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Republicans shoot themselves in the shorts.

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When things are going well, even when you appear to lose, they end up going the way you wanted. Hence the situation for Democrats on Capitol...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

I may have picked the winners, but missed the margins

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I recently put up a post on the race here in CD-1 in which I predicted that Ann Kirkpatrick would win a close race against Howard Shanker. I...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

CD-1 primary analysis.

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Living in Arizona Congressional District 1, I've decided to do a post on what may be the hottest congressional race in the country (cert...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Back from vacation.

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A lot has happened since I went on vacation a couple of weeks ago. So here is a brief wrap-up of what's been going on. 1. I was disappoi...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Boehner having trouble marketing change that isn't really change.

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Republicans in the house, still reeling over their defeat in a special election in a deep-red Mississippi congressional district (the third ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

House seat lost by GOP in Mississippi leaves 199.

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The Republicans lost another special election for a previously Republican open seat tonight, as Democrat Travis Childers defeated Republican...
Monday, March 31, 2008

Supreme Court declines to intervene in Jefferson case.

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The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to involve itself in the question of whether evidence the FBI seized from the Congressional Office of...
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Saturday, November 03, 2007

New GOP strategy is to attack Congress for inaction-- but how accurate is it?

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Recently the Republicans have begun claiming that this Congress is a 'do-nothing' Congress, in an attempt to undermine the Congressm...
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Thursday, August 09, 2007

President blames Congress for bridge collapse, proposes corporate tax cuts as the cure.

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It's hard to believe, but President Bush blamed Congress for the bridge collapse last week at the same time that he pushed for new corpo...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Ann Kirkpatrick resigns to run for Congress.

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Ann Kirkpatrick, who represents district 2 in the Arizona legislature has resigned from her seat in order to run for Congress against Rick R...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Hal Turner issues a fatwa on right wing assault radio

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Hat tip to E.A. Prez at Details It seems that conservative talk show host Hal Turner is advocating the assassination of members of Congress ...
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