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Why you shouldn’t be paying attention to Iowa polling right now (even if you can’t help yourself)
Current polls of Iowans’ preferences should be viewed with something stronger than caution.
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Courageous congressional pioneer Jeannette Rankin would be 139 today
Rankin was an unwavering feminist and pacifist. She served two terms in the U.S. House – 22 years apart, on the eve of World War I and then again on the eve of World War II.
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Fact-Checker gives us the latest on Trump’s false or misleading claims
“President Trump has made 10,796 false or misleading claims over 869 days,” the Washington Post’s fact-checking operation reports.
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The split among Democrats on ‘electability’ has a lot to do with age
Democrats age 18-49 were much more evenly split on the purity vs. electability divide than older party voters.
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Without naming Trump, Romney takes on his dissing of U.S. allies
A lot of people don’t know this (as Donald Trump likes to say, when he has just learned something that a lot of people already know), but Mitt Romney despises Donald Trump, except when he pretends not to.
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Trump’s approval rating: As always, bad but stable
Fivethirtyeight.com’s average of many polls shows an insignificant rise in the president’s approval (to 41.6 percent).
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Trump’s tax cut impact: $1 of benefit for every $20 of revenue loss
Tax cuts for the rich and corporations are great, for the rich and corporations. The national debt is growing at rates not seen since World War II.
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Franken re-emerges in speech to Jewish Family Service of St. Paul
Franken’s Sunday speech was smart, funny, autobiographical, emotional, logical, fact-filled and liberal as hell.
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The adorable, hilarious and maybe tragic way the Federalist papers addressed impeachment
In Federalist No. 65, Alexander Hamilton, writing under the pseudonym Publius, decided to discuss the question of why the framers would arrange for a president, once impeached by the House, to be tried by the Senate.
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Mueller gives a glorious demonstration of what honest, nonpartisan law enforcement looks like
In an era of almost total partisanship in all matters, this was refreshing to me. To others, on either side of the Great Trump Divide, his appearance was no doubt frustrating.