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Category: 2014 Election

Democratic Left

What the Left Can Learn from the Tea Party

November 29, 2020 Reece Ellis 2014 Election, 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Politics, Progressive people Leave a comment

Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States of America but not without any costs. Biden’s electoral theory as many warned was not watertight and while he was able to notch a convincing victory nationwide, Democrats down ballot were not so lucky.

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Running for Congress as an Introvert

January 26, 2020 Arthur Lieber 2010 Election, 2014 Election, Campaigns, Money & Politics Leave a comment

Change has to be thoughtful and deliberate. That is largely consistent to the ways in which introverted people operate. So, to all of my fellow people who spend much of their time on the introverted side of the continuum, consider trying to find ways to engage in politics and still be in your comfort zone.

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RIP Democratic Party: The best of the 2014 election post-mortems

November 6, 2014 Willy Kessler 2014 Election, Campaigns, Democrats, Republicans Leave a comment

The average American lost big in the midterm election yesterday when their last, best, if imperfect, hope, the Democratic party, was, in legislative terms

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Don’t overthink it: What happened in the 2014 election is simple

November 6, 2014 Steve Sorkin 2014 Election, Republicans Leave a comment

Almost all of the analysis of the election results is over-complicated at best and wrong at worst. This professor has it exactly right, in

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My local democratic club doesn’t cut it. How’s yours?

November 5, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2014 Election, Activism, Democrats Leave a comment

What the hell are democratic clubs good for, anyway? I received an email recently from the one in my area, imploring me, as a

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A young activist just made my Election Day

November 4, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2014 Election, Activism, Missouri region, People, Youth issues Leave a comment

Standing in the rain outside a polling place today, touting my spouse/candidate for U.S. Congress–Arthur Lieber– I struck up a conversation with a young

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Obstructionism works

November 3, 2014 Steve Sorkin 2014 Election, Congress, Obama, Republicans Leave a comment

Perhaps the Democrats will be able to avoid losing the Senate tomorrow. I hope so, because if they don’t, we are in for a

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The minimum rage: Wisconsin edition

October 15, 2014 Joanna Sandsmark 2014 Election, Economy, Employment, Poverty, Republicans, States Leave a comment

With all the talk of raising the minimum wage, there is one state that shouldn’t have any trouble at all doing just that. Why?

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The team with the most money lost today: Cardinals vs Dodgers–a political parable

October 7, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2014 Election, Campaigns, Politics, Sports Leave a comment

Unaccustomed as I am to writing about sports, I beg for indulgence just this once. I’m still breathless from this evening’s amazing come-from-behind win

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The sad state of campaign debates: 2014 edition

September 26, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2014 Election, Campaigns, Politics One comment

Ever since the election-changing Presidential Debates between Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election, American voters have come to expect

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