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Another upgrade: Klobuchar seen as 6th most likely 2020 Dem nominee
CNN moved Minnesota’s senior senator from seventh most likely Democratic nominee for president in 2020, to sixth mostly likely.
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Approval ratings for Trump rise to 44 percent
His current bad disapproval number, according to the average of many polls maintained and calculated by HuffPost, stands at an average of 51.2 percent.
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Laugh or cry? The case of West Virginia’s high-stakes political battle
The basics: The West Virginia Legislature impeached the entire West Virginia Supreme Court for spending too much on redecorating their offices. But they haven’t yet been tried in the state Senate.
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America the unusual: Where else have the major parties switched positions on the political spectrum?
While we have two major parties, operating under the same names since 1856, they have not only not stood for the same things over time, they have on several occasions traded positions on the big left-to-right ideological spectrum.
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Amid major crisis between Turkey and Saudi Arabia, U.S. spokesman forced to admit we have no ambassador in either country
We have a pretty major crisis just now between two extremely important U.S. allies, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, over the apparent kidnapping and likely murder, by Saudi agents in Turkey, of a prominent Saudi journalist.
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DFLers ‘up big’ in Minnesota, NBC/Marist poll finds
The poll has DFL gubernatorial nominee Tim Walz leading Republican Jeff Johnson by 55 percent to 38 percent among likely voters.
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We suck at voting
Although a great many changes have made it easier to vote, our overall participation has not gone up. In fact, if anything, it’s drifted down a bit from the 1950s and ’60s.
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Bold prediction: almost all House and Senate races will be won by a Republican or a Democrat
Poll results have been called “crack cocaine for political junkies.” The point is not that it gets you high. The point is that it gives you the momentary feeling that you can see the future of the political season. Then that feeling blows over and you need another hit.
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A reminder that the awful mess we are in right now is not the awfullest mess ever
The tale of Henry Stanbery involves an outrageous and, in a way, hilarious power play by Congress. It’s also a reminder that the supposedly durable balance of powers is susceptible to mischief.
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Kavanaugh is the new normal: Supreme Court nominations and confirmations are now party-line matters
The Supreme Court has become, to some degree, a nine-member unelected super-legislature serving life terms whose policy preferences on many matters carry more weight than those of the actual elected legislators in Congress.