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Talking With Jumaane Williams, the Activist-Politician Who Just Might End Up As Cuomo's No. 2
Splinter (blog)
The differences are usually the structure of the local government, and how many people—liberal, conservative, Democrats, Republicans—point to the gubernatorial mansion for the lack of leadership. With that said, we've picked up a whole slew of ...
Cuomo Chooses Unions Over Grassroots ProgressivesWSKG.org

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Republicans blitz 'High Five Heidi' Heitkamp on day marking iconic celebratory gesture
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Sam McCann of Plainview announced he'll run under a new Conservative Party label and criticized Rauner in a video for helping Chicago Democrats control the state. In a statement, McCann said “the Republican Party under Rauner was unrecognizable to me ...
Democrats see Wisconsin as the proving ground for the party's revivalCNBC
Democrats see Wisconsin as proving ground for party revivalWSAW
Democrats see Wisconsin as a proving ground for the party's revivalChicago Tribune

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Chicago Tribune
New third party candidate could be a headache for Rauner in IL-GOV
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With Arizona's Eighth Congressional District special election coming up in less than a week, here's a look at some of the ads running in the lead-up to the contest. The race — which has been a surprisingly competitive contest in a traditional ...
*** UPDATED x5 - Ives, Durkin, DGA, ILGOP, Pritzker, Rauner respond - Brady accepts caucus resignation *** Sen ...The Capitol Fax Blog (blog)
Gubernatorial Candidates Have Fence-Mending AheadPeoria Public Radio

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Isthmus
And then there was one
Isthmus
With Ferrell and Willett gone, Ripp is left carrying the conservative banner on the 37-member county board. Michael Basford, chair of the Democratic Party of Dane County, says Republicans can now “hold their caucus in a phonebooth.” “It really is ...

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Isthmus
And then there was one
Isthmus
With Ferrell and Willett gone, Ripp is left carrying the conservative banner on the 37-member county board. Michael Basford, chair of the Democratic Party of Dane County, says Republicans can now “hold their caucus in a phonebooth.” “It really is ...

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Gubernatorial Candidates Have Fence-Mending Ahead
NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS
Galia Slayen, spokeswoman for the Pritzker campaign, says Pritzker is willing to continue pushing for something a lot of progressives want: a graduated income tax. Just as Trump upended the Republican establishment, progressives also have made inroads ...

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The Heights
Don't Call Me a Liberal
The Heights
... by the false American dichotomy of liberal vs. conservative. In order to understand the differences between “leftist” and “liberal,” let's look at Boston College's most popular political ideology. You guessed it: being “economically conservative ...

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Washington Examiner
Democrats finally discover federalism
Washington Examiner
Republicans have long championed the 10th Amendment (power not delegated to the federal government is reserved to states and individuals) and states' rights. In the era of gridlocked government and President Trump in Washington, Democrats have ...

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Splinter (blog)
Andrew Cuomo Keeps Calling Himself 'Undocumented,' Which, Hmmm
Splinter (blog)
Cuomo has also allowed the Independent Democratic Conference—a group of eight breakaway state Senate Democrats who caucus with the Republican Party, effectively giving conservatives the majority—to exist for years. (He recently reunited the two ...

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Brookings Institution (blog)
Trump voters in Democratic primaries? A closer look at Illinois's 3rd Congressional District
Brookings Institution (blog)
Here at The Primaries Project, we study the divisions within each of the major political parties that become clear during congressional primaries. In addition to our work covering the issue positions and ideologies of primary candidates, we are also ...

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Commentary Magazine
The Fatalist Conceit
Commentary Magazine
Obama overreaches and the voters elect a Republican House. Mitt Romney says 47 percent of Americans are losers, and he loses an election. Hillary Clinton says people who don't care for her are “deplorables,” and she loses an election, too. The GOP ...

RollingStone.com
The Resistance Is Infiltrating Trump Country
RollingStone.com
But for two long weeks, as teachers rejected fig leafs and empty promises from the governor, the parents – conservative, liberal, moderate, Democratic, Republican – continued to raise hell alongside the teachers and public workers. Their elected ...

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CNN
Democrats aren't expecting an Arizona miracle, but their eyes are on November
CNN
Another operative noted that the organizing in the reliably Republican district has allowed Democrats to reach out to voters that they had left untouched in 2016 and make inroads with voters who backed Trump. The key to those efforts may be seniors ...

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WBFO
Cuomo chooses unions over grassroots progressives
WBFO
Bruce Gyory, a political consultant who is not advising anyone in the governor's race, said the pure progressives are not the majority of the Democratic Party base; it's made up of a mix of about two-thirds traditional liberals and moderate Democrats ...
NY Gov. Cuomo Chooses Unions Over Grassroots ProgressivesWAMC
Liberal 3rd party won't play spoiler by backing TV star680 News

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WBFO
Cuomo chooses unions over grass-roots progressives
WBFO
Bruce Gyory, a political consultant who is not advising anyone in the governor's race, said the pure progressives are not the majority of the Democratic Party base; it's made up of a mix of about two-thirds traditional liberals and moderate Democrats ...
NY Gov. Cuomo Chooses Unions Over Grassroots ProgressivesWAMC
Liberal 3rd party won't play spoiler by backing TV star680 News

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WRVO Public Media
Cuomo chooses unions over grass-roots progressives
WRVO Public Media
Bruce Gyory, a political consultant who is not advising anyone in the governor's race, said the pure progressives are not the majority of the Democratic Party base; it's made up of a mix of about two-thirds traditional liberals and moderate Democrats ...
NY Gov. Cuomo Chooses Unions Over Grassroots ProgressivesWAMC
Liberal 3rd party won't play spoiler by backing TV star680 News

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New York Times
Why There Is No 'Liberal Tea Party'
New York Times
The lack of a “liberal Tea Party” reflects a fundamental and longstanding asymmetry between Republicans and Democrats. The Republican Party is the agent of an ideological movement; most Republican politicians, activists and voters view their party as ...

My Word: Holding up a mirror
Maryville Daily Forum
Andrew Johnson, a Democrat and unionist, became president following Lincoln's assassination. Johnson was not a supporter of equal rights for freed blacks and opposed the Fourteenth Amendment, sweeping legislation that granted citizenship rights and ...

WAMC
NY Gov. Cuomo Chooses Unions Over Grassroots Progressives
WAMC
Bruce Gyory, a political consultant who is not advising anyone in the governor's race, says the pure progressives are not the majority of the Democratic Party base, which is made up of a mix of around two thirds traditional liberals and moderate ...
Cuomo chooses unions over grass-roots progressivesWXXI News
Liberal 3rd party won't play spoiler by backing TV star680 News

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Daily Signal
The Changes That Made California Become a Liberal Fiasco
Daily Signal
As The Daily Signal's Fred Lucas wrote in The American Conservative, it led to bizarre absurdities, such as Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein being labeled the “Republican” option in a Senate race due to the fact that her only opponent was a more militant ...

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