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More Watch the Republican Debate on CNBC in Less Than 4 MinutesHere’s What Democratic Operatives Thought of the Republican Debate 0 minutes. Debates are hard at sea level. But in the Republican field this year, even the amateurs are pros. So the Republican National Committee has made this one harder. We’re in Boulder, Colo., 150…
A new study suggests that programs like food stamps and housing vouchers cut poverty by almost twice as much as we thought they did. According to standard census numbers, the poverty rate in New York from 2008 to 2011 was 13.6 percent, before taking these programs into account. The programs the study examines — food stamps (a.k.a….
The scariest thing in American politics already walks among us. AJ+ – 5 Ways America Is Already Socialist.
Whenever the media talks about ‘gun control,’ it sends gun hoarders into a frenzy. It’s time to use a different phrase. Olivia Pope and Associates (OPA), the smartest, bravest, best-dressed crisis communications company in the nation’s capital, recently took on the sensitive topic of dog-whistle politics. Dog-whistle politics refers to inflammatory language so coded that…
Shortly after midnight on September 14, 2000, James Ghent slipped out of his Miami home, climbed into his car with a suit, a toothbrush, and a change of underwear, and drove nearly 500 miles to Tallahassee to ask Jeb Bush for his rights back. The journey, he hoped, would help him close the door…
Seems like a lot of Republican presidential candidates have been dropping references to superheroes this political season, what with Donald Trump calling himself Batman, Ted Cruz dumping out his proverbial action figures, and now Jeb Bush telling the world he thinks Supergirl is hot. And he didn’t mean her heat vision. When Jeb Bush received a softball question about his favorite…
Entry Text Democrats must win swing states in 2016 to prevent Trump or another Republican from sitting in the Oval Office. Since voters in general elections normally won’t vote for a candidate they don’t like or at least find trustworthy, it’s imperative that a Democratic nominee hold positive favorability ratings going into Election Day. I…
Last Thursday, the nation watched with a mix of amusement and horror as the House Benghazi committee spent 11 hours grilling Hillary Clinton on a bizarre farrago of issues, many of which bore only tangential connection to the Benghazi attack. Over the past few weeks, the political narrative seems to have shifted from “Clinton in trouble” to…
During a town hall held and broadcast by NBC’s Today, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that he had a life full of adversity, because he only ever got a million dollar loan from his father. An audience member asked Trump if at any point in his life, anybody had ever told him ‘no.’ “Oh, many times,” he…
Jeb Bush joins the two former presidents in his family, George W. and their father, George H.W. | Associated Press Bush family gathers to rescue Jeb His famous family rallies around to attempt to revive his flagging campaign. By Eli Stokols 10/26/15 05:11 AM EDT HOUSTON — This closed-door summit for Jeb Bush’s richest donors…