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Why are Democratic voters more approving of compromise than Republicans?
SFGate
Many studies have demonstrated that conservatives and liberals have different predispositions and traits, which might explain the Republican-Democratic difference given that partisanship and ideology overlap so much. Psychologists have ... So if ...

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Why are Democratic voters more approving of compromise than Republicans?
New Haven Register
Many studies have demonstrated that conservatives and liberals have different predispositions and traits, which might explain the Republican-Democratic difference given that partisanship and ideology overlap so much. Psychologists have ... So if ...

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Will Ben Jealous pull Maryland Democrats together or apart?
Baltimore Sun
Was he so liberal that he will help a Republican win? Break apart the ... His progressive campaign delivered a decisive victory Tuesday over the establishment's candidate, emphasizing a rift between the Democrats' left flank and the moderates who have ...

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AlterNet
Why are Democratic voters more approving of compromise than Republicans?
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Many studies have demonstrated that conservatives and liberals have different predispositions and traits, which might explain the Republican-Democratic difference given that partisanship and ideology overlap so much. Psychologists have ... So if ...
Why Are Democratic Voters So Much More Approving of Compromise Than Republicans?AlterNet

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Psychology Today (blog)
Can We Find Our Way to More Civil Political Discourse?
Psychology Today (blog)
Although there has always been a chasm in positions and priorities between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals/progressives, the tone and intensity in disagreement has escalated dramatically in recent years. The volume has become ...

MyAJC
Black and Democratic voters gain on Republicans in Georgia
MyAJC
While the Republicans tried to outflank each other on conservative issues, Democrats jockeyed over who was more progressive. Abrams built her electoral strategy around energizing left-leaning voters, including minorities, with liberal stances on gun ...

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New York Times
With GOP Primary on Staten Island Over, Enter the Democrat
New York Times
Mr. Rose, who happily answers to progressive, moderate, liberal — even “blue dog” — refuses to concede that the borough is inherently conservative, and thus unwinnable. President Trump won Staten Island by 17 points, but Democrats outnumber ...

New York Magazine
Anthony Kennedy and the Death of True American Conservatism
New York Magazine
Many Democrats expressed their contempt for him as he left, decried his consistent federalism, and simply couldn't grasp how a social moderate could also favor defending the rights of fundamentalists unfairly treated by the state government or of big ...

Why are Democratic voters more approving of compromise than Republicans?
WTOP
Many studies have demonstrated that conservatives and liberals have different predispositions and traits, which might explain the Republican-Democratic difference given that partisanship and ideology overlap so much. Psychologists have ... So if ...

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CBS News
Commentary: When Dems freak out over SCOTUS, Republicans will benefit
CBS News
The boost for the GOP won't come from Trump's SCOTUS pick, but the likely progressive reaction to it. And to paraphrase a bit of advice from Animal House: Mad, #Woke and wacky is no way to go through the midterms, liberals. "The ugliest year of our ...
Democrats Must Stop Pretending the Supreme Court Is ApoliticalThe Nation.
The 'Neutron Option' Democrats Could Use to Retake the Supreme CourtVICE
Chuck Schumer Is Secretly Sabotaging the Next Democratic PresidentNew York Magazine
TPM (blog) -WAER
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USA TODAY
Political War Over Replacing Justice Kennedy on Supreme Court Underway
New York Times
Democrats and liberal advocacy organizations face enormous challenges if they hope to prevent President Trump and the Republicans from installing a conservative justice who would shift the ideological balance of the court for generations. Mr. Trump has ...
Anthony Kennedy retirement latest reason Democrats risk losing Supreme Court for generationsUSA TODAY
Tipping the ScalesThe New York Review of Books
Will Kennedy's Retirement Help Republicans At The Midterms?FiveThirtyEight
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Chicago Tribune
Yes, there can be a tea party of the left, but here's what's different
Washington Post
Crowley is a traditional liberal, a product of New York City's Catholic schools and Irish American political circles, a party loyalist who paid his dues by serving in the state legislature and becoming a major fundraiser. ... Pelosi, should her party ...
Primary roundup: Democratic heavyweight loses in New York; South Carolina incumbent governor winsChicago Tribune
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stunning victory emboldens left as Democrats eye new identityNew York Daily News
Primaries bring good news for Trump and Republicans, bad news for divided DemocratsFox News

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Jacobin magazine
In Defense of Court-Packing
Jacobin magazine
The conservative majority's support of Trumpism and opposition to progressive objectives means it will pose a barrier to the agenda of even the most left-leaning president and Congress. ... The early New Deal-era Court's hostility to government ...

New York Magazine
Chuck Schumer Is Secretly Sabotaging the Next Democratic President
New York Magazine
Senate Republicans continue to oppose him out of the highly rational belief that abolishing the filibuster would one day open the door to progressive legislation they oppose. But the real news in this story about Trump's fruitless argument against the ...

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The Weekly Standard
Editorial: Exit Kennedy
The Weekly Standard
Donald Trump was elected president in large part because he promised to nominate principled conservatives in the mold of Antonin Scalia, and with the 39 Trump judicial nominees confirmed so far—including Neil Gorsuch to replace Scalia—he has kept ...

VICE
Kennedy Retirement Injects an Inflammatory New Issue Into Midterms
New York Times
Democrats said that Senator Mitch McConnell's decision to replace Justice Kennedy before the midterms would further motivate voters already enraged by Mr. Trump and anger progressives still smarting over Mr. McConnell's decision to block President ...
The Republican Court and the Era of Minority RuleNew York Magazine
Anthony Kennedy's Retirement Means the Democrats Are Even More FuckedVICE
Anthony Kennedy Was No ModerateNew Republic
Wall Street Journal -Bustle -The Guardian
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CGTN America (blog)
US politics divided over conservative and liberal extremes
CGTN America (blog)
There's been a potentially significant shift in the U.S. political landscape this week. President Donald Trump is poised to lock in a conservative majority on the nation's highest court after one key justice announced his retirement. The revelation ...

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Baltimore Sun
GOP Maryland Gov. Hogan and Democrat Jealous trade barbs as General Election race begins
Baltimore Sun
“Hogan has sidelined this very liberal state from the resistance against Donald Trump,” Gibson said. “It's not that he is Trump, it's that he's a Trump enabler. I think that's the path to success.” Jealous has proved his ability to harness progressives ...
What Ben Jealous's Win Means for DemocratsThe Atlantic

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Wall Street Journal
Week's Events Draw Deeper Partisan Lines
Wall Street Journal
The Democrats' liberal base was energized both by that family-separation controversy and by the shocking victory of a 28-year-old progressive upstart over a party leader in New York, leading them to believe more victories over the establishment are ...

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New York Magazine
The Republican Court and the Era of Minority Rule
New York Magazine
Democrats have won the national vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, which, with the retirement of Anthony Kennedy, will have resulted in the appointment of eight of the Supreme Court's nine justices. And yet four of those justices ...

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