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Rural America

It Wasn’t Just Russia: Democrats Have Larger Problems

June 6, 2017 Reece Ellis 2018 Election, Campaigns, Democrats, Demographics/Polls, Hillary Clinton, Missouri region, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Voting/Elections 2 comments

There are several theories that attempt to explain why Hillary Clinton was defeated in November, and most of them are at least somewhat credible.

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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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Bernie Sanders

Come on Dems; now is the time that Bernie needs your support

March 27, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Activism, Bernie Sanders, Democracy, Democrats, Progressive people, Republican Brain, Social Sec/Medicare Leave a comment

Fortunately, Bernie Sanders has been getting a lot of air time recently. For the most part, the peripheral vision of the media has ranged

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U.S. Senate

Democrats have uphill fight for Senate in 2018

March 9, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, Congress, Democrats, Republican Brain, Republicans, Voting/Elections One comment

It’s not a pretty sight for Democrats. There may be hope for an American electoral recoil from Trump-mania, but the game in the U.S.

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Democratic Party does to John Lewis what Trump couldn’t

January 15, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democrats One comment

  There was no way that Donald Trump could shame John Lewis, no matter how much Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC tried to goad him

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A very unfair 160-year streak that Hillary Clinton could not overcome

January 13, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democracy, Democrats, Government, Hillary Clinton, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

James Buchanan did something that Hillary Clinton could not do, nor could any other Democrat since the election of Buchanan in 1856. Buchanan succeeded

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Should Democrats obstruct Trump or try to minimize the damage?

December 23, 2016 Reece Ellis 2016 Election, Democrats, Trump One comment

The single biggest question before Democrats is not how to overturn the results of the 2016 election or dissecting what went wrong in the

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It’s not surprising that now is the time that “Forgotten Americans” rose up

December 9, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democracy, Democrats, Politics, Poverty, Republican Brain 5 comments

It should not surprise us that 2016 has been the year of the Trump voter. It could well have happened without Donald Trump. Just

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The party of identity politics needs to identify Trump voters

December 8, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democrats, Demographics/Polls, Politics, Survey, Trump One comment

You have to name it before you can deal with it. That is sound advice often given by psychologists, sociologists, medical doctors, in fact

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The presidential primary system: Time to repeal and replace it

November 21, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Democracy, Democrats, Voting/Elections 3 comments

The Democratic party should be gearing up–right now–to completely revamp the presidential primary system. Of the many things that went horribly wrong in the

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A new book by Arthur Lieber. Political Introverts: How Empathetic Voters Can Help Save American Politics.  Buy it here.

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