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Desperation: Hilariously pitiful rubbish masquerades as Trump poll
The choices for rating the president: great, good, okay, and other.
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Risch-y business: Idaho Republican senator prefers not to talk about Trump
It’s hard to identify many practicing Republican politicians who stood up to Trump and remained politically viable.
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Might we hit the highest turnout in a century in 2020?
Nathan Gonzales of “Inside Elections,” writes that turnout in the midterms “was nearly 50 percent of the voting-eligible population.” He sees a potential 73 percent turnout in ’20.
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George Will: Sherrod Brown may be ‘optimum challenger’ to Trump in 2020
Will notes that Brown was on the midterm ballot in November, winning a third Senate term by a six-point margin in a state Trump had carried two years earlier by eight.
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Trump and the new ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’
The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler Kessler created a term for a false fact that Trump has repeated at least 20 times without acknowledging or doing anything to explain away the three- or four-Pinocchio rating he had already received for the same assertion.
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The latest Trump approval numbers, state by state
The main takeaway from the Morning Consult numbers is that Trump’s approval has gone down in every state.
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Wisconsin shenanigans: Lame duck legislators’ ‘soft coup’
In some instances the lame duckers seek to remove from the governor’s office powers the same Legislature had themselves recently given to the office, when it was controlled by Scott Walker.
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Did LBJ want Nixon to beat Humphrey?
Biographer Arnold Offner calls attention to a lie that President Lyndon B. Johnson told his vice president.
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Will 5 Southwest states and 2 key demographic groups be blue in 2020?
Democrats may be in the process of turning five of the six states that take up our nation’s southwest corner into bastions of blue strength, New York Times columnist Thomas Edsall writes.
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Despite gerrymandering, Nov. 6 House outcome reflects overall split in U.S. votes
The results of the 2018 elections for the U.S. House seem to have almost perfectly mirrored the division of the national popular vote between the two major parties.