A Do-Nothing Congress That’s Done Too Much of the Wrong Thing
Approval ratings and reelect numbers are way down.
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Approval ratings and reelect numbers are way down.
Democratic leaders, impressed by the purported success of GOP-backed ballot initiatives to ban same sex marriage in the 2004 election are pushing their own wedge initiatives to increase the minimum wage. But are such ballot measures really as potent as claimed?
The differences that divide us are much smaller than those that set us apart from the rest of the world
Within the GOP, the president’s support has faded fastest among moderates and liberals. The drop among conservatives has been more gradual, but the implications are just as serious.
Church leaders and members don’t always agree about undocumented migrants.
Not only is there evidence of a reawakening of young people to public life, but today’s youth are politically distinctive in many ways.
Many Americans do not fit well within into either the conservative or liberal camps. Instead they find a home in one of two other U.S. political traditions, libertarian and populist, or defy attempts to pigeon-hole them.
The federal debt has escalated in recent years but runaway deficits no longer top the political agenda as in the 1990s, according to a new poll analysis.
This election year, two heavyweight political trends are poised for collision: GOP unpopularity and the growing power of incumbency.
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