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Suffolk GOP taps Assemb. Dean Murray for 3rd district Senate race
Newsday
“Dean has led the fight perilously in debates . . . to protect Long Island taxpayers against the liberal-progressive New York City agenda of Mayor Bill de Blasio,” said Jesse Garcia, Brookhaven GOP chairman. Murray was chosen before about 100 party ...

Washington Examiner
Liberals battle Democratic establishment in California swing district
Washington Examiner
IRVINE, Calif. — The proxy fight between liberals and establishment Democrats flared up during a debate in southern California, days ahead of the state's Tuesday primary. Democrats running to take on Republican incumbent Mimi Walters in the 45th ...

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New York Times
One Reform to Save America
New York Times
There were liberal Republicans from places like the Northeast and conservative Republicans from the West. ... A district in Southern California, for example, might elect a Bernie Sanders-type progressive, a centrist business Democrat and a conservative.

Forbes
Senior Obama Advisors Ignore Massachusetts' Millionaire's Tax Ballot Measure During Boston Visit
Forbes
With Republicans controlling all branches of the federal government, Democratic governors, state legislators, and mayors are best situated to enact progressive policies in the short term. One could argue that the top-down approach by liberal activists ...

Statesville Record & Landmark
TOM CAMPBELL COLUMN: To what tribe do you belong?
Statesville Record & Landmark
Many went so far as to define themselves as “North Carolina Democrats,” a tribal subset more moderate or conservative than the more liberal national tribe. When the Republican Party emerged and inched within numerical parity, many cheered, ... Part of ...

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Tampabay.com
Gwen Graham isn't running from her congressional record, despite the critics
Tampabay.com
"Graham stood with Republican leaders over President Obama and Florida Democrats," said a TV ad in May sponsored by a Super PAC that supports her rival, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum. "Gwen Graham is not the progressive she claims to be.".

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CNN
How a surge of progressive energy could backfire on Democrats in California
CNN
Trump's actions have been met by a surge of progressive activism in the state, and Democrats are hoping the state's June 5 primary will deliver an opening blow at the ballot box that would send a message to Trump and eventually deprive Republicans of ...
'No Party Preference' overtakes Republican in Democrat dominated CaliforniaVallejo Times Herald
Four reasons Democrats could lose the midtermsSan Marcos Daily Record (press release)
Not all county supervisor candidates are equally progressiveIowa City Press Citizen
The Guardian
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Newsday
Progressive groups looking toward LI congressional primaries
Newsday
It helps that in both Long Island districts where an incumbent Republican congressman is up for re-election, all the Democrats in the primaries are running as progressives in a year when the left wing of the party is pushing for pre-eminence. ... There ...

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New York Times
Trump Against the Tide
New York Times
To sum up, both social media and the progressive direction of the Obama years helped lay the groundwork for the progressive/multicultural normative context that Trump would later enter and threaten to smash. For liberals, Trump and his supporters were ...

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Pacific Northwest Inlander
Lisa Brown hopes Trump-fueled progressive enthusiasm will turn the tides of the 5th District and sweep her into Congress
Pacific Northwest Inlander
... of voters — moderates and independents, at least, and probably some conservatives — while at the same time fighting off messages being pushed by the state Republican Party and other conservative groups that she's an "ultra-liberal career ...

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The Guardian
Liberals' worst nightmare: a second supreme court pick for Trump
The Guardian
Brian Fitzpatrick, a professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School, said Republican vows to overturn Roe v Wade, the supreme court's 1973 ruling that legalized abortion in the US, are more designed to energize conservative voters than they are ...

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NJ Spotlight
In District 5, Trash-Talking Republicans Keep Primary Race Down and Dirty
NJ Spotlight
Lonegan has called McCann a liberal masquerading as a conservative, while McCann has called Lonegan a liar and an opportunist. Both claim to ... The DCCC remains committed to Gottheimer, a relatively conservative Democrat, and has backed another ...

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Iowa City Press Citizen
'No Party Preference' overtakes Republican in Democrat dominated California
Vallejo Times Herald
Voters choosing no party affiliation have overtaken Republicans in Democrat-dominated California, marking a troubling slide for the GOP in the nation's most populous state that a generation ago was home to the Reagan Revolution. ... Still, it is ...
Four reasons Democrats could lose the midtermsSan Marcos Daily Record (press release)
Not all county supervisor candidates are equally progressiveIowa City Press Citizen
The political battle for Arizona tells a story of America's changing demographicsThe Guardian
Daily Democrat -DTN The Progressive Farmer (blog)
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Peoria Journal Star
Nowlan: A dilemma for Illinois' Christian conservatives
Peoria Journal Star
Contrary to conventional wisdom that Illinois is a blue (Democratic) state, Republicans have been successful in winning a number of statewide offices in recent elections — Judy Baar Topinka for comptroller twice, Mark Kirk for U.S. Senate, Dan ...

The Mercury News
'No Party Preference' overtakes Republican in Democrat dominated California
The Mercury News
Voters choosing no party affiliation have overtaken Republicans in Democrat-dominated California, marking a troubling slide for the GOP in the nation's most populous state that a generation ago was home to the Reagan Revolution. ... Still, it is ...
Oddly, neither political party reflects the values of black votersThe Hill
Four reasons Democrats could lose the midtermsSan Marcos Daily Record (press release)
Not all county supervisor candidates are equally progressiveIowa City Press Citizen
The Guardian
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USA TODAY
Less Roseanne Barr, more Tom Wolfe — Republicans need new celebrities
USA TODAY
While he didn't consider himself a political “conservative,” Wolfe reached the top of the American literary world by exposing liberal snobbery through wit and erudition, as opposed to many of today's right-leaning “celebrities” who traffic in crass ...
Roseanne Reboot Is Dead. Will Real Time with Bill Maher Be Next?: Reason RoundupReason (blog)

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To what tribe do you belong?
Richmond County Daily Journal
Many went so far as to define themselves as “North Carolina Democrats,” a tribal subset more moderate or conservative than the more liberal national tribe. When the Republican Party ... Part of the reason why Republicans gained such a foothold in North ...

The Hill
House GOP leader accuses tech companies of anti-conservative bias
The Hill
is calling out social media and technology giants over what he sees as anti-conservative bias. ... Congressional Republicans often attack Silicon Valley over its socially liberal leanings, but it's rare for such a high-ranking GOP member to target the ...

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Iowa City Press Citizen
Oddly, neither political party reflects the values of black voters
The Hill
Late last year, a Pew Research Center poll revealed interesting insights: a majority of African Americans consider themselves politically moderate (44 percent) or conservative (27 percent), with just over a quarter calling themselves politically ...
Four reasons Democrats could lose the midtermsSan Marcos Daily Record (press release)
Not all county supervisor candidates are equally progressiveIowa City Press Citizen
The political battle for Arizona tells a story of America's changing demographicsThe Guardian
Daily Democrat
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The Hill
Oddly, neither political party reflects the values of black voters
The Hill
The Republican Party's trouble with African American voters is nothing new, but what has received a less thorough assessment is the second question. Why aren't the more moderate and conservative views of blacks represented in the Democratic Party?

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