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发帖数: 29846 | 1 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/03/state-lawmakers-bolt-democratic-party-election-day/
Adding insult to injury for their party, at least 13 Democratic state
lawmakers have joined the Republican ranks since Election Day -- deepening
GOP gains and in one case handing the party the state House majority.
Democrats in five states have switched parties since Nov. 2, citing concerns
about the economy and the political leanings of their constituents. The
defections are a troubling sign for state... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 3 ANKENY, Iowa — It was four years ago that Ross Witt, a soft-spoken
electrical engineer at John Deere, overcame his natural discomfort with
knocking on hundreds of his neighbors’ doors during dinnertime as a
precinct coordinator for Ron Paul’s campaign.
But when Mr. Paul dropped out of the national race in June 2008, Mr. Witt
did not stop, because, in a sense, neither did Mr. Paul: Mr. Witt and many
other supporters here joined the Iowa branch of an independent political
group Mr. Paul establishe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 4 Washington (CNN) -- House Republicans and Senate Democrats stepped up their
game of legislative chicken over the expiring payroll tax cut Monday, with
Democrats flatly rejecting House Speaker John Boehner's demand to ditch a
two-month extension in favor of an immediate one-year continuation.
"It's time to stop the nonsense," Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters on Capitol
Hill. "Americans are tired of Washington's short-term fixes and gimmicks."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, responded ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 5 a medicare fraud.
PPP: Scott's popularity keeps dropping, even within his own party
Public Policy Polling obviously took this survey before last night's
legendary LeBron show, concluding that the polarizing LeBron James is more
popular than the governor. Nonetheless their findings on Gov. Rick Scott are
interesting as they find that the governor's popularity in the midst of the
voter purge is dropping, even within his own party.
Key point: "Scott’s undoing begins with dwindling support in his ow... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 Democratic Party Favorable Rating Falls to Record Low
by Andrew Dugan
Story Highlights
Democrats' favorable rating at a record-low 36%
Democratic Party lost support among Democrats, independents
Republican Party's favorable rating remains steady at 42%
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After the midterm elections that saw the Democratic
Party suffer significant losses in Congress, a record-low 36% of Americans
say they have a favorable opinion of the party, down six percentage points
from before... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2283 | 7 Republican letter urges party to cut Trump's funding
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37055398
More than 70 Republicans have signed a letter to the party's National
Committee head urging him to stop helping Donald Trump's campaign.
They said Mr Trump's "divisiveness" and "incompetence" risked drowning the
party in November's election.
The letter said that the party should instead focus on protecting vulnerable
candidates in elections to the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Former... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 43471 | 8 Controversial issues[edit]
Studies of the electoral process in Florida have been done by Democrats,
Republicans, and other interested parties, that reveal various flaws and
improprieties. Controversies included:
All five major U.S. TV news networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and CNN) made the
incorrect assumption that all of Florida's polls closed at 7:00 p.m. EST.
They reported this incorrect information at 7:00. In fact, the westernmost
counties in Florida had polls open for another hour, until 8:00 ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24893 | 9 博纳打开门加税，转移财政悬崖会谈
Reuters Reuters - 9小时前
华盛顿（路透社） - 的第一个真正的运动中的“财悬崖”谈判始于上周日，与共和党
的众议院议长约翰·博纳磨边稍微接近奥巴马总统的关键需求作为他们试图避免的陡峭
税加息和削减开支采取的12月31日，除非国会干预的影响。
但博纳的新职位，税率及新的收入总额包括在一个赤字削减协议，仍然远离那些由奥巴
马举行。
而且双方还没有取得进展的棘手问题，如配额，要远远超过民主党，共和党很可能会容
忍在削减医疗补助和医疗保险，政府为穷人和老年人的医疗保健计划。
知情人士透露奥巴马和博纳谈判，博纳提出延长低税率为大家谁也赚不到100万美元，
上面说的工资和价格将上升。奥巴马希望该阈值设置为25万美元。
根据现行法律，35％的最高税率定为1月1日届满，并会自动去到39.6％ - 它是在克林
顿执政期间。
博纳也增加了他的身影1万亿美元的总收入相比，奥巴马的1.4万亿美元的数字。 10年
的赤字削减计划将来自削减开支的平衡。
白宫不接受博纳建议。
博纳接受要约的税率增加对最富有的美国人击倒一个关键的共和党的路障，以解决年底
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发帖数: 5449 | 10 Economic policies
Republicans strongly believe that free markets and individual achievement
are the primary factors behind economic prosperity. To this end, they
advocate in favor of laissez-faire economics, fiscal conservatism, and the
elimination of government run welfare programs in favor of private sector
nonprofits and encouraging personal responsibility.
A leading economic theory advocated by modern Republicans is supply side
economics. Some fiscal policies influenced by this theory were p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11530 | 11 Democrats Plotting ‘Collision Course’ With Trump’s Tax Plan
by Sahil Kapur
December 26, 2016, 4:00 AM CST
They’ll emphasize benefits for the rich amid populist pitch
Planned tax cuts for all complicate minority party’s strategy
Congressional Democrats say they’ll try to thwart Republican plans to
overhaul the U.S. tax code by portraying them as a boon for the rich that
betrays President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise to fight for
working Americans.
“There’s going to be opposition ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4704 | 12 大多数人将会强烈要求给一个总结，这里总结写得最好的人之一就是Beijing了。
关于Grassley反对舒默的提案，feishi已经在一个多星期前寄出去的我们的工作汇报中
提到了，的确是专门负责H.R.3012的幕僚写给我们的亲笔信。
格老对H.R.3012的立场经历了如下变化:
(1)Hold H.R.3012
(2)Ammend H.R.3012 (其实hold的目的是为了加进去他自己的条件）
(3)修改提议被拒绝后坚决Hold H.R.3012
(4)现在说只要没有爱尔兰人的条款就可以放弃Hold H.R.3012
Untold Story on H.R. 3012 Lobby and Negotiation Behind the Dark and Thick
Curtain
Our readers have remained in the dark when it comes to the details of events
and activities behind the curtain to lobby for the stalled H.R. 3012 in the
S... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12782 | 13 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
Helsinki (跑步然后蛋腚地桑拿) 于 (Thu Mar 15 09:44:47 2012, 美东) 提到:
大多数人将会强烈要求给一个总结，这里总结写得最好的人之一就是Beijing了。
关于Grassley反对舒默的提案，feishi已经在一个多星期前寄出去的我们的工作汇报中
提到了，的确是专门负责H.R.3012的幕僚写给我们的亲笔信。
格老对H.R.3012的立场经历了如下变化:
(1)Hold H.R.3012
(2)Ammend H.R.3012 (其实hold的目的是为了加进去他自己的条件）
(3)修改提议被拒绝后坚决Hold H.R.3012
(4)现在说只要没有爱尔兰人的条款就可以放弃Hold H.R.3012
Untold Story on H.R. 3012 Lobby and Negotiation Behind the Dark and Thick
Curtain
Our readers have remained in the dark when it comes... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 14 Big Business, Senate Republicans and Democrats backing immigration reform
have a target in their cross hairs: House Republicans.
Senators like John McCain (R-Ariz), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chuck
Schumer (D-N.Y.) met with tech giants such as Microsoft, Google and Intel,
and pro-immigration reform groups like FWD.us to discuss a coordinated
campaign to target more than 100 House Republicans when they are at home in
their districts over the next month, according to sources familiar with the
mee... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4612 | 15 【 以下文字转载自 EB23 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: EB23
标 题: 不知道这次硅谷要出多少血
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jul 16 20:01:36 2013, 美东)
Big Business, Senate Republicans and Democrats backing immigration reform
have a target in their cross hairs: House Republicans.
Senators like John McCain (R-Ariz), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chuck
Schumer (D-N.Y.) met with tech giants such as Microsoft, Google and Intel,
and pro-immigration reform groups like FWD.us to discuss a coordinated
campaign to target more than 100 Hou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4653 | 16 这个新闻在一些当地小报上是题目这样报道的。
当奈特和汉奸老将不停指责别的国家独裁专政的时候，黑总统也开始更加独裁了哦
这怎么回事呢？
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/01/05/obama-
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — Defying congressional Republicans, President Barack
Obama appointed Richard Cordray yesterday to head a new consumer-protection
agency.
The decision to install Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau without Senate approval rankled Republicans in part
because they say the U.S. Senate is not on recess. The U.S. Constituti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5601 | 17 http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/fiscal-cliff-deal-r
By Henry Blodget | Daily Ticker Jan 02, 2013
To listen to the moaning of some Republicans in the House of Representatives
, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Republicans are losing the
fiscal battle in Washington.
Actually, they're winning.
To see this, you just need to step back and look at the tax deal and the
country's fiscal trends from a broader perspective.
Yesterday, the government voted to extend almost all of the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 18 Nancy Pelosi could unexpectedly deliver Republicans their worst nightmare —
and it could lead to an electoral bloodbath
Many Democratic candidates have distanced themselves from House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi in efforts to unseat Republicans in midterm elections
this year.
Republicans have for years used Pelosi as a boogeyman - and the prospect of
that coming to an end terrifies them.
WASHINGTON - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is a favorite target for
Republican candidates and groups to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 19 https://time.com/5770140/millennials-change-american-politics/?utm_source=
facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_content
=20200127&fbclid=IwAR36be58A6V9VvNGfu55yIWFvzqs8zNMpZsfrol02sAtggNde_
tGjMlveqI
How Millennial Leaders Will Change America
BY CHARLOTTE ALTER JANUARY 23, 2020
Love ’em or hate ’em, this much is true: one day soon, millennials will
rule America.
This is neither wish nor warning but fact, rooted in the physics of time and
the biology of human cells... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33825 | 20 Senate rejects bid to open debate on repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell'
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/09/senate.dadt.vote/index.html
Washington (CNN) -- The Senate on Thursday rejected a Democratic bid to open
debate on repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning openly gay a
nd lesbian soldiers from military service, possibly killing any chance for i
t to get passed in the current congressional session.
However, a bipartisan group of senators immediately said they would raise th
e... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 21 Posted on Advocate.com June 07, 2011 10:35:00 AM ET
Mehlman Lobbies for New York Marriage
By Julie Bolcer
Former Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman took his most visible
step to date for marriage equality in New York Monday when he traveled to
Albany to lobby undecided state lawmakers on the bill that could receive a
vote in less than two weeks.
The visit, which included a brief media availability with state capitol
reporters, marked an unusually public display of involvement from M... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 22 民意支持率都58%了，共和党把持的参议院还是不让投，TNND，直接搞公投算了！
那些支持共和党的gay们，醒醒吧！
Marriage Equality Bill Stuck in New York Senate
By Julie Bolcer
Albanyx390 (Getty) | Advocate.com
New York state senate Republicans will meet Thursday morning to continue
their discussion about whether to bring the marriage equality bill to the
floor for a vote, with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg scheduled to
address the stuck conference.
The conference, expected to begin around 10 a.m., follows a four-hour,
closed-door conversati... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/democrats-are-losing-women/
Ever since the abortion debate burst on the American political scene in the
wake of the Roe v Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, women have voted
more Democratic than men. Particularly unmarried women have since typically
backed Democratic candidates – attracted by their pro-choice positions –
by
between ten and twenty points in each election.
But now the trend has stopped! In one of the most important findings in the
post-election... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 民主党控制的伊利诺伊州国会通过加税法案，个人所得税增加67%，商业收入税增加46%
Quinn congratulates Democrats on income tax increase
Share |
Posted by Ray Long and Monique Garcia at 2:15 a.m.
A triumphant Gov. Pat Quinn congratulated fellow Democrats early today after
the Illinois Senate and House sent him a major income tax increase without
a single Republican vote in favor.
Quinn smiled and shook hands on the floor of the Senate around 1:30 a.m.
after the Senate voted 30-29 for the bill, which would raise the personal
income tax-r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 Reince Priebus当选共和党全国委员会主席，在7轮投票之后，之前是威斯康星州共和
党主席
On the seventh round of balloting, Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman
Reince Priebus has been elected the national committe's new leader.
After five rounds of balloting, Michael Steele abandoned his bid for a
second term as chairman of the Republican National Committee.
CAPTION
By Alex Wong, Getty Images
Update at 3:27 p.m. ET: With Michael Steele out of the running, Wisconsin
Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus continues to lead after five... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press – Mon May 30, 11:54 am ET
WASHINGTON – In the first presidential election since the tea party's
emergence, Republican candidates are drifting rightward on a range of issues
, even though more centrist stands might play well in the 2012 general
election.
On energy, taxes, health care and other topics, the top candidates hold
positions that are more conservative than those they espoused a few years
ago.
The shifts reflect the evolving views of conservative vo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 The national political parties took more cash from lobbyists in the first
half of 2011 than in any other six-month period on record, even during the
wide-open election of 2008, and the Democratic Party’s committees have
easily outpaced their GOP counterparts despite President Obama’s
vilification of special-interest giving.
An analysis by The Washington Times found that the fundraising arms of the
Democrats took in 30 percent more in lobbyist donations than Republicans in
the first six months of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 28 http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/29/thunderdome-gone-savage-for
The Trump phenomenon is neither a disease nor a symptom – he is instead the
beta-test of a cure that the American people are trying out.
By Ben Domenech
February 29, 2016
On Face the Nation this Sunday, I attempted to explain the 2016 cycle in 40
seconds. Pull back from the close ups on Donald J. Trump’s tweets, and the
political realignment we are experiencing becomes obvious and impossible to
ignore. The post-Cold War left-right p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2053 | 29 http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-election-2016/index.html
(CNN)Donald Trump is aiming to pull off one of the greatest political
comebacks in history.
The Republican nominee is rebounding from a summer of repeated stumbles that
threatened to undermine his candidacy, underscoring his ability to claw his
way back and stay competitive despite controversies that would sink any
other politician.
Poll: Nine weeks out, a near even race
Trump and Hillary Clinton enter t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3630 | 30 呵呵.幸好有wwikipedia.就知道你的所谓"历史"的漏洞有多少,随便找了找.
"民猪党最早都是奴隶主，共和党反对蓄奴，最后废除奴隶制"
list of all US president who owns slaves.
Thomas Jefferson 200 Democratic-Republican (early Republican)
James Madison 100+ Democratic-Republican (early Republican)
James Monroe 75 Democratic-Republican (early Republican)
Andrew Jackson <200 Democratic
William Henry Harrison 11 Whig (later disband and most turn into Republican
party)
John Tyler 70 Whig (later disband and most turn into Republican party)
Ja... 阅读全帖 |
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k**L
发帖数: 3630 | 31 这家伙到处找人打脸
呵呵.幸好有wwikipedia.就知道你的所谓"历史"的漏洞有多少,随便找了找. "民猪党最
早都是奴隶主，共和党反对蓄奴，最后废除奴隶制" list of all US president who
owns slaves.
Thomas Jefferson 200 Democratic-Republican (early Republican
) James Madison 100+ Democratic-Republican (early Republican)
James Monroe 75 Democratic-Republican (early Republican)
Andrew Jackson <200 Democratic
William Henry Harrison 11 Whig (later disband and most turn into Republican
party)
John Tyler 70 Whig (later disband and most turn
into Republican party) James K. Po... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 692 | 33 http://time.com/4826980/gerrymandering-gill-whitford-partisan/
How This Supreme Court Case Will Affect the Next Election
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear argument this fall in a
potentially landmark partisan-gerrymandering case from Wisconsin. This will
give the Justices an opportunity to weigh in on an important question that
they’ve never clearly answered: Whether there are any constitutional limits
on politicians’ ability to draw electoral maps to give their party a leg
up. How the C... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7918 | 34 人民群眾的眼睛偶爾也是雪亮的。
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/us/politics/05poll.html?hp
August 4, 2011
Disapproval Rate for Congress at Record 82% After Debt Talks
By MICHAEL COOPER and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN
The debate over raising the debt ceiling, which brought the nation to the
brink of default, has sent disapproval of Congress to its highest level on
record and left most Americans saying that creating jobs should now take
priority over cutting spending, according to the latest New York Times/CBS
News Poll.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24893 | 35 WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to save the nation from going over a year-end "
fiscal cliff" were in disarray as lawmakers fled the Capitol for their
Christmas break. "God only knows" how a deal can be reached now, House
Speaker John Boehner declared.
President Obama, on his way out of town himself, insisted a bargain could
still be struck before Dec. 31. "Call me a hopeless optimist," he said.
A look at why it's so hard for Republicans and Democrats to compromise on
urgent matters of taxes and spend... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2914 | 36 元芳，你怎么看？
http://news.yahoo.com/insiders-immigration-reform-likely-pass-c
What is the likelihood of comprehensive immigration reform, including a
pathway to citizenship, passing Congress this year?
DEMOCRATS (107 VOTES)
Very likely: 39%
Somewhat likely: 50%
Somewhat unlikely: 8%
Very unlikely: 3%
Very likely
“GOP has gone from bigotry to opportunism faster than Sarah Palin can take
down a caribou.”
“To quote John McCain: ‘Look at the election.’ ”
“The GOP has backed itself into a corner, and citi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9501 | 37 http://www.examiner.com/article/despite-obamacare-rollout-progr
Despite Obamacare rollout, Progressives see single-payer health care as goal
December 10, 2013
Among the people who express dissatisfaction with Obamacare (the Affordable
Care Act), the bigger number are actually progressives who were upset by the
contortions Obama went through to preserve profit-making private insurance
companies as the gatekeepers to the health care system.
Progressives wanted a single-payer system which every o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 38 In realpolitik the flip side of punishment is reward, where the same
substantial resources that defeated incumbents who vote against marriage
equality can also be allocated to protect lawmakers who support the bill.
The lesson could prove critical in courting Republicans, as at least four
and possibly as many as eight GOP senators are believed to be willing to
support the bill under the right conditions, which their camp argues failed
to materialize last year.
“There were at least four Republica... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 39 Posted on Advocate.com June 13, 2011 07:10:00 PM ET
Major Breakthroughs on Marriage Equality in New York
By Julie Bolcer
James Alesi x390 (pub) | ADVOCATE.COM
James Alesi
A statement of support from James Alesi, the first Republican state senator
to publicly announce he would vote yes on the marriage equality bill in New
York, capped a day of watershed developments on Monday as the legislature
moved briskly toward holding a vote, perhaps as early as this Thursday.
“It has been an extraordinary d... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 40 Posted on Advocate.com June 21, 2011 03:25:00 PM ET
New Yorkers United for Marriage Equality at Rally
By Julie Bolcer
NEW YORK State assemblymembers 20110621 X390 (JULIE BOLCER) | ADVOCATE.COM
New Yorkers from as far away as Buffalo and New York City traveled to the
state capitol in Albany on Tuesday to rally for an immediate vote on the
marriage equality bill, which remained one vote shy of passage in the senate
as lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared to be making progress in
negotiations b... 阅读全帖 |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 41 【 以下文字转载自 QueerNews 讨论区 】
发信人: globalized (球球), 信区: QueerNews
标 题: Major Breakthroughs on Marriage Equality in New York
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jun 13 20:02:39 2011, 美东)
Posted on Advocate.com June 13, 2011 07:10:00 PM ET
Major Breakthroughs on Marriage Equality in New York
By Julie Bolcer
James Alesi x390 (pub) | ADVOCATE.COM
James Alesi
A statement of support from James Alesi, the first Republican state senator
to publicly announce he would vote yes on the marriage equality bill in New
York, capp... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 42 哈佛大学研究发现，美国独立日游行只让共和党人感到兴奋，让孩子最终成为共和党，
有助于共和党选民出来投票
Harvard: July 4th Parades Are Right-Wing
By Paul Bedard
Posted: June 30, 2011
Democratic political candidates can skip this weekend's July 4th parades. A
new Harvard University study finds that July 4th parades energize only
Republicans, turn kids into Republicans, and help to boost the GOP turnout
of adults on Election Day.
"Fourth of July celebrations in the United States shape the nation's
political landscape by forming beliefs and increasin... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 43 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a good catchphrase could stop
thinking for 50 years. One of the often-repeated catchphrases of our time —
“It’s the economy, stupid!” — has already stopped thinking in some
quarters for a couple of decades.
There is no question that the state of the economy can affect elections. But
there is also no iron law that all elections will be decided by the state
of the economy.
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发帖数: 2273 | 44 Washington (CNN) - Newt Gingrich's lead in the race for the GOP presidential
nomination has evaporated, according to a new national survey.
A CNN/ORC International Poll released Monday indicates that 28% of
Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP say the former House
speaker is their choice for their party's nominee, with an equal amount
supporting former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. In CNN's previous national
poll, conducted last month, Gingrich held a 24%-20% margin over Romne... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 The Heck with the Senate: Obama Skips 'Advise and Consent' in Naming 3
Members to NLRB
By Susan Jones
January 5, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - As part of his "We Can't Wait" campaign -- intended to make
Congress look weak and ineffective -- President Barack Obama is making a
power grab of questionable legality, critics say.
Not only did the president recess-appoint a consumer protection "czar" on
Wednesday, he also recess-appointed three new members of his controversial
National Labor Relations Board.
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 Thursday, 08 Mar 2012 04:35 PM
Senate Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican proposal to give a permit
to the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline in a vote that will give Republicans
more ammunition to criticize President Barack Obama's energy policies on the
campaign trail.
Republicans argue the pipeline, which would ship oil from Canada and
northern U.S. states to Texas, would create jobs and improve energy security
at a time of surging gasoline prices.
Obama put TransCanada's $7 billion proje... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24893 | 47 Stocks Return More With Democrat in White House: BGOV Barometer
By Bob Drummond - Feb 21, 2012 9:00 PM PT
While Republicans promote themselves as the friendliest party for Wall
Street, stock investors do better when Democrats occupy the White House.
From a dollars- and-cents standpoint, it’s not even close.
The BGOV Barometer shows that, over the five decades since John F. Kennedy
was inaugurated, $1,000 invested in a hypothetical fund that tracks the
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX) only when ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1191 | 48 http://www.eatthestate.org/not-your-grandfathers-gop/
Not Your Grandfather’s GOP
By Lansing Scott • on October 18, 2012 5:55 pm
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One thing that gets lost in the 24 hour news cycle of political reporting is
a longer view of political developments—-not just for today, this week, or
this election cycle, but over a span of decades.
One of the most significant political developments over the past half
century has been the extreme rightwa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 Jay Cost
November 2, 2012 6:00 AM
When I started making election predictions eight years ago, I had a very
different perspective than I do today. I knew relatively little about the
history of presidential elections or the geography of American politics. I
had a good background in political science and statistics. So,
unsurprisingly in retrospect, I focused on drawing confidence intervals from
poll averages.
Since then, I have learned substantially more history, soured somewhat on
political scien... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 Steyn：在加拿大和澳大利亚竞争高技能移民的时候，美国高速引入低技能福利移民；
加利福尼亚拉丁裔人口从1970年占人口10%暴增到2010年的40%，这不自然
To an immigrant such as myself (not the undocumented kind, but documented up
to the hilt, alas), one of the most striking features of election-night
analysis was the lightly worn racial obsession. On Fox News, Democrat
Kirsten Powers argued that Republicans needed to deal with the reality that
America is becoming what she called a “brown country.” Her fellow Democrat
Bob Beckel observed on several occasions that if ... 阅读全帖 |
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