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New York Times
Republican Senator Vital to Health Bill's Passage Won't Support It
New York Times
If Republicans pass this bill, they're the death party.” Scrambling to halt or at least slow the Senate's repeal effort, a range of Democratic and progressive leaders said Friday that they intended to intensify pressure on Republican lawmakers. Liberal ...
Republicans' Obamacare repeal would be one of the biggest cuts to the social safety net in historyWashington Post
Morning Digest: Democrat Jon Ossoff loses intensely contested special election in GeorgiaDaily Kos
GOP senators oppose SwampcareConservative Review
Quartz -U.S. Senate Budget Committee
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Charity Watchdog Group Calls Conservative Groups “Hate Groups”
The New American
In the letter from the conservative leaders, they noted, “The hate group list is nothing more than a political weapon targeting people it deems to be its political enemies,” adding that the SPLC “is merely another 'progressive' political organization ...

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Who were Donald Trump's voters? Now we know
American Enterprise Institute
Their views on immigration were more liberal than other Trump groups. American ... They vote for both Democrats and Republicans and look like Democrats on many economic issues. Anti-Elites (19 percent) lean to the progressive end of the economic ...

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The Atlantic
Why Do Democrats Keep Losing in 2017?
The Atlantic
Further complicating the picture: The Democrat who lost by the narrowest margin did so in a largely rural district, but could hardly be described as a progressive darling. Parnell, a former Goldman Sachs executive, ran as a ... “but I'll work every day ...
The Matter of Message: Republicans Win On Bias and Fear While Democrats Eat Their OwnHuffPost
Democrats must stop clinging to ideology if they want to win elections againChicago Tribune
Progressives moving in on conservative states in drovesCanada Free Press
National Review -CNN -The Hill (blog)
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HuffPost
The Matter of Message: Republicans Win On Bias and Fear While Democrats Eat Their Own
HuffPost
Democrats don't march in lockstep. Which is a good thing, an admirable thing. They may share a vast majority of core principles and foundational aspirations, but within that core you'll find myriad convictions about how liberal, progressive, Democratic ...

Canada Free Press
Progressives moving in on conservative states in droves
Canada Free Press
I'm still scratching my head trying to understand the insanity of 144,000 low information Americans from Georgia who voted for the Democrat candidate Jon Ossoff, a French President Macron look-alike, even though he did not reside in their district and ...

Vox
What conservatives know about climate change that liberals don't
Vox
Lilla maintained that if the Democratic Party wants to appeal to more working-class white voters, it needs to treat “identity liberalism” with a “proper sense of scale. ... In her new book, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning ...

Los Angeles Times
Attention progressives: Take a lesson from LGBTQ successes and learn to 'speak conservative'
Los Angeles Times
Democrat Jon Ossoff's loss in the Georgia special congressional election has demoralized progressives who hoped it would signal an anti-Trump wave that could turn the House from red to blue in 2018. The left is fractured, with disagreements between the ...

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National Review
What If Donald Trump Doesn't Sink the Republican Party?
National Review
... be a disaster for Democrats. And Tuesday's runoff election in Georgia's Sixth District shows that it might be possible. Now, had Jon Ossoff come out ahead of Karen Handel, the coverage would have painted this as a game-changing moment: a referendum ...
Don Polson: Political assassin; rhetorical slaughterRed Bluff Daily News

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What's Really Behind the Dem's Special Election Losses?
City Watch
SPECIAL ELECTION POST-MORTEM-Democrats around the country were hopeful that they could win two special elections Tuesday in what had long been “safe” Republican districts in Georgia and South Carolina. Instead, both ... What propelled Ossoff's campaign ...

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NY Democrat Who Put Republicans In Power Sees His Legislation Destroyed By Republicans
Village Voice
Senator Jose Peralta, who represents the liberal bastions of Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, and Corona, in Queens, defected to the Independent Democratic Caucus shortly after his election (as a Democrat). In doing so, Peralta helped shift the balance ...

Newsmax
Opinion: Voters Continue to Choose Conservatism in Trump Era
Newsmax
Today, Republicans most clearly espouse traditional conservative values, and Democrats maintain those of this country's progressives. Before now the ideological differences were blurred, with conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans, both of whom ...
What If Donald Trump Doesn't Sink The Republican Party?The Federalist

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Los Angeles Times
Conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt gets a show in MSNBC's weekend expansion
Los Angeles Times
In 2015, MSNBC dropped the brand imaging that positioned the channel as a politically progressive news source — its tagline was “Lean Forward.” Two of the channel's most liberal hosts — Joy Reid and the Rev. Al Sharpton — were moved to the weekend ...

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Los Angeles Times
California politics updates: Conservative assemblyman joins governor's race, Pelosi says she's 'worth the trouble'
Los Angeles Times
Conservative Orange County Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) is jumping into California's 2018 race for governor, a move that could splinter the GOP vote in what promises to be a crowded and competitive race. Travis, elected to the ...

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Washington Post
In case you missed it: Read the bill text
Washington Post
For decades, Democrats controlled the House, and Republican presidents have often pursued moderate or progressive domestic agendas. Public programs established by Democrats have proven popular among beneficiaries, and it has been difficult for ...

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The Hill (blog)
Will we ever have civility in American political discourse
The Hill (blog)
Neither is a mainstream Democratic source. Yes, one can find leftists taking an ... Sometimes, it's not even subtext: days before the Alexandria shooting, Huffington Post blogger Jesse Benn published an essay chiding liberals who reject “a violent ...

Washington Post
Republicans' Obamacare repeal would be one of the biggest cuts to the social safety net in history
Washington Post
Throughout the modern history of Congress, lawmakers have inexorably expanded progressive social policies, and while conservatives have successfully forestalled expansions to the social safety net, they've had very little success in reversing them ...
In fiery Senate floor speech, Bernie Sanders savages Republicans for their secretive health care billSalon
Democrats Tie Up The Senate To Protest GOP Health Care PushNPR
It would only take three Republican senators to end the secrecy around Trump's health care reformQuartz
Romper
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MDJOnline.com
DON McKEE: Karen Handel turned tide, winning Republican base
MDJOnline.com
She won over most or all of the 13 percent of Republicans who in the early June poll had said they would vote for or leaned toward liberal progressive Democrat Ossoff, a 30-year-old political novice versus Handel, 55, former Georgia secretary of state ...
Karen Handel Wins Georgia Special Election, Fending Off Upstart DemocratNew York Times
What Ossoff's Loss Means for Democrats in 2018The American Conservative
Lessons for Utah from Georgia's special electionUtah Policy
Slate Magazine (blog) -GoLocalProv -MyAJC
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Why Democrats Lose: It's All About Turnout
Peacock Panache
Many Americans are convinced that gerrymandering–while admittedly a bipartisan offense– has operated since 2011 to given Republicans power vastly disproportionate to their vote margins. (If you don't believe that, ... If liberals voted at the same rate ...

Colleges have become progressive indoctrination mills
Bucks County Courier Times
A study by Smith College, George Mason University and University of Toronto found 72 percent of American university professors are liberal versus only 15 percent conservative, and 50 percent are Democrats versus 11 percent Republican. This contrasts ...