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Donald Trump and the Evangelical Industrial Complex

February 29, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Humor, Religion in Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Republicans tend to believe that the bulwark of their strength comes from those people who are very conservative, which includes the millions of Evangelical

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Debunking Trump: He’s as phony as the Wizard of Oz

February 26, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Democracy, Republicans 3 comments

Donald Trump reminds me of the Wizard of Oz. All bluster and bombast, no substance, and no one to question his power or his

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The case for the Sanders revolution

February 15, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Budget, Campaigns, Capitalism, Democracy, Demographics/Polls, Economy, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Survey 2 comments

Bernie Sanders is calling for a political revolution. Is there evidence to demonstrate that his “revolution” is needed? And why is the Sanders revolution

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Survey: Democrats and Republicans want different kinds of leaders

February 10, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democrats, Demographics/Polls, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Survey Leave a comment

Which two of the following characteristics best describes the kind of leader that you would want for the country? [You must select two]: A

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Survey: Do you believe in science?

February 5, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Demographics/Polls, Education, Republican Brain, Republicans, Science, Survey 2 comments

How much of science do people believe? In our 2016 survey, we did not ask “What weighs more, a ton of steel or a

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Survey: Does our economic system favor the rich?

February 3, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Capitalism, Democracy, Democrats, Demographics/Polls, Economy, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Survey One comment

Conventional wisdom holds that Republicans are the party of the wealthy. But as Donald Trump’s campaign has clearly revealed, there are plenty of Republicans

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Trump’s 5th-Avenue-shootout fantasy

January 26, 2016 Renee Shur 2016 Election, Guns, Humor, Language/Words, Politics, Republicans, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” said Donald Trump recently. Fasten your seat

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Trump: The man who would be king

January 11, 2016 Susan Cunningham 2016 Election, Democracy, Media, Republicans Leave a comment

“A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn’t enough

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A glimpse into Republican and Democratic brains

January 6, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Good government, Guns, Obama, Republican Brain, Republicans, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

It is no secret that political polarization has increased in the United States in recent years. For those who heard President Obama speak on

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It’s 2016: What happened to all those dire, Obama-geddon predictions?

January 2, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, 2016 Election, Obama, Republicans Leave a comment

Now that it’s 2016, it’s time to fact-check some of the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it predictions that President Obama’s critics made before his 2012 re-election. In an

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