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Category: 2020 Election

Kirsten Gillibrand

The conundrum of the Senate Women’s Decisions

December 11, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Civil liberties, Gender issues, Justice, Politics Leave a comment

I feel fortunate in my work life because for the most part I have worked with more women than men. At the risk of

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Would Democrats be better off without the Democratic Party?

November 3, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Democrats, Politics 2 comments

If you’re a Republican, a standard criticism of Democrats is that they are bad with all things money – raising it, spending it, managing

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Tim Ryan

Iowa, already, really?

October 9, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2020 Election, Democracy, Democrats, Electoral College, Politics, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

I remember that Barack Obama, upon leaving office, said that one of his post-presidency goals was to reform our democracy. He seemed to have

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Fund-Raiser-Invitation

Dems: Let’s try politics without the donor class

September 20, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

There’s nothing particularly sexy about what’s happening above the radar in Democratic politics. Primaries for Congress and states don’t start until well after the

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Five Candidates

2020 Potential Democratic Contenders: A Closer Look

August 7, 2017 Reece Ellis 2016 Election, 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Politics, Voting/Elections 3 comments

The race for the 2020 Democratic nomination began at 11:30 PM, November 8th, 2016 when the networks projected that Donald Trump would carry the

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Tammy Duckworth

Suggested disqualifiers before Campaign 2020 begins

July 20, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2020 Election, Campaigns, Voting/Elections One comment

Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth ranks first in our list of viable Democratic candidates for 2020. If the Democratic Party is truly going to be

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Democratic Candidates

It’s Never Too Early! Narrowing the 2020 Field

July 20, 2017 Reece Ellis 2020 Election, Campaigns, Democrats, Voting/Elections 4 comments

(Methodology) Pundits and politicos have been curating lists of potential contenders for the 2020 Democratic, including on this site, but how do we sort

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Trump-2020

12 Possible Endings for Trump’s 1st Term

July 9, 2017 Reece Ellis 2016 Election, 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Democrats, Government, Republicans, Voting/Elections 2 comments

This list isn’t organized in any particular way, but rather it’s just a selection of possible places we might find ourselves in 4 years.

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Election 2020

Let the race begin for the 2020 Democratic Presidential Nomination

June 6, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2020 Election, Democrats, Politics, Voting/Elections 4 comments

If the United States was a sophisticated European democracy, the headline to this article would be way out of place. After all, as Gabe

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