Racist rhetoric, after all, doesn't typically serve Republicans well electorally.
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Electorally, MBA students have become something of a voting bloc.
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At first, the assault on government worked, at least electorally.
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It's the right thing to do — both morally and electorally.
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Internal rows about anti-Semitism have already hit the party electorally.
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I'm not saying it can be electorally successful in other countries.
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It's neither as true, nor as electorally important, as it sounds.
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Republicans know that a more inaccurate census would benefit them electorally.
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But electorally speaking, it's far from clear how much that matters.
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In this country, it must be electorally disqualifying to equivocate on racism.
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We've got to beat him electorally, we've got to beat him in
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Whether Trump's performance in Helsinki ultimately does hurt him electorally is unclear.
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"If [UKIP] continues in this direction, electorally it is finished," he said.
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In the Arizona Senate race, Democrats may benefit electorally from the confirmation.
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Electorally speaking, in other words, Republicans profit from economic stagnation and decline.
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Trump and Cruz have succeeded electorally by taking on the "corrupt" Washington establishment.
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But this isn't going to happen because electorally-sensitive interests would be hurt.
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In fact, he took steps to ensure that Puerto Ricans benefited him, electorally.
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Absolutely. But politicians do best electorally when they have empathy with their constituents.
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Among Lamb's constituents, cultural liberalism is, consequently, a liability — even fatal, electorally speaking.
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None of these people or groups are electorally viable in their current positions.
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Maybe it will take a black-led, electorally independent movement to do that.
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Yet May seems to want to do more than crush her political opposition electorally.
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And they chose, electorally, to look at the latter — and that's hurting nearly everybody.
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These leaders understand that women aren't just important to the GOP politically and electorally.
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"Campaigning on long-term ideological goals is both legitimate and electorally sound," he continued.
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The president could revive a trade battle with Mexico if it benefits him electorally.
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Obama resurrected Republicans, who were electorally finished in the wake of his 2008 landslide.
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"I don't think that his strategy is going to help him electorally," Palmieri said.
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And he found that the campaign "expected it would benefit electorally" from illegal Russian interference.
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And though a drag on the party electorally, she is good at getting her way.
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Similarly, all four of Utah's incumbents are from the GOP and electorally safe this cycle.
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Electorally, they have been the most successful party in Western Europe since the 19th century.
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Electorally decisive, they are the landlords of the political centre; politicians are merely their tenants.
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That may come back to haunt them electorally, but not after millions suffer the consequences.
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Their direct impact in a contest — what they achieve for themselves — is usually electorally meaningless.
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That may come back to haunt them electorally, but not until millions suffer the consequences.
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Consequently, the issues that matter most electorally are the ones that matter least to partisans.
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This drives support for right-wing candidates, as they compete electorally by targeting out-groups.
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Republican senators may actually find that it is more electorally dangerous to vote against him.
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We wanted something that let us go where people are and have electorally relevant interactions.
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The era of "the resistance" has proven electorally and politically mobilizing for Democrats of all stripes.
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The anti-Brexit wing of the party not only worries that this will be electorally damaging.
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But as the Democratic primary advances to the more electorally diverse states of Nevada on Feb.
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Indeed, he was seen as making Hindu-nationalists, previously regarded as a violent fringe, electorally acceptable.
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And so now that they are facing really tough battles electorally, how brave is it really?
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This may come at the peril of Democrats: A plurality thought this might hurt them electorally.
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His command of voters under the age of 30 will likely have serious, lasting consequences electorally.
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Klobuchar does not seem like the kind of candidate to take electorally important areas for granted.
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He stuck to the plainspoken approach that serves him well electorally, even as pundits disparage it.
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At top of mind will be moderate frontliners — the party's most electorally vulnerable members — like Reps.
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And finally, you'll see few Republican lawmakers electorally punished for voting against universal background checks. Why?
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Above all, Rove wishes to recover the McKinley model of an assertively organized and electorally inclusive party.
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Those are both very interesting and potentially electorally significant ways to understand fissures in the Republican coalition.
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A good portion of O'Rourke's success had to do with the fact that Texas is changing electorally.
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When candidates go after Obama from the left, it could be seen as especially dangerous electorally speaking.
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Another issue that seems to have underperformed electorally is Donald Trump's administration's plan for Middle East peace.
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Gillum sets a contrast with Republicans in a way that many electorally unsuccessful Democrats in Florida haven't.
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Anti-imperialist political forces on the left and economic nationalists on the right will become electorally stronger.
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If a Democratic majority in the House and Senate didn't pass didn't ObamaCare, we were electorally doomed.
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Mr. Schultz could certainly play to these voters, but it is not a particularly electorally fruitful group.
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Democrats do fight voter suppression, but that's likely at least partly because voter suppression hurts them electorally.
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And there's a conjunction of factors that make it electorally powerful in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines particularly.
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But electorally, the question is not whether Biden can tame Mitch McConnell through sheer force of personal bonhomie.
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Over the last eight years, Republicans focused on legislative initiatives that were ideologically appealing but also electorally strategic.
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Moves that make it easier for blacks and Latinos to vote are unlikely to help the GOP electorally.
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It will take a generation, genuine contrition and an ideological conversion for the FARC to become electorally competitive.
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But the criticism is unlikely to hurt the government politically, since it remains in an electorally strong position.
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Dagan and Teles argue that progress happened because this issue was not electorally salient for an extended period.
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Today, they in turn are being evicted or defeated, either electorally or through pressure from massive street protests.
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It's more likely that after decades in politics, Pelosi is only capable of calculating losses and gains electorally.
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More electorally challenging are the liberal cultural issues that wealthy liberals like Pelosi are much more comfortable with.
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What's more, far-right parties built around Islamophobia and the politics of counter-jihad have become electorally successful.
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Even George W. Bush criticized Trump (without saying his name), but he too has nothing to lose electorally.
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"Electorally, it now has potential," Ms. Tondelier, the Greens council member, said of the focus on the environment.
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The very thing that made him right electorally for this moment will probably make him an incompetent president.
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For the moment, the parties and personalities that have energized far-right populism have not fully crystallized electorally.
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But even if Mrs Pelosi may be a drag electorally, she remains an imposing congressional boss and vote-counter.
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They want to see him electorally humiliated — made a total loser — by the very people he's disrespected and disregarded.
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But beyond electorally disadvantaging social democratic parties, when political competition focuses on social issues, democracy can run into problems.
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Despite the profound successes electorally of the last six years, the Republican Party is at an unspoken identity crisis.
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They argue that Trump, by his nature, polarizes the nation — and has done so to his electorally-terminal disadvantage.
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Electorally, the tax cuts were losers, because for the average American they were insignificant enough to go largely unnoticed.
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Some occasional Trump critics such as Roby have appeared to suffer electorally in areas where the president is popular.
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In truth, the notion that political opposition can be electorally vanquished was not unique to Republicans during this election.
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It could also make 210 the year when immigration at last emerges as an electorally rewarding issue for Democrats.
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Reliance on electorally unaccountable appointees and civil servants to check the president creates a whole new set of problems.
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"Tonight is a tough night electorally," she added before citing the generational gap in support between Sanders and Biden.
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Proponents argue that diversity on the ticket is important not only for representation and progress, but electorally as well.
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And anyway, Trump's popularity in Israel meant there was little to be gained electorally by coming out against him.
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He's a used his connections to rack up endorsements and money, but he has yet to be tested electorally.
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But another Germany, more self-aware and searching, still exists, though it may not know how to manifest itself electorally.
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Ms Le Pen's populism has fewer rough edges than Mr Trump's, and is all the more electorally powerful for it.
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Yet while that is true, and a source of Republican glee, there is no proof it hurts the Democrats electorally.
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I never would have believed that Brexit was possible and that the arguments of Brexit could triumph electorally in England.
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More United could offer them the infrastructure, funding and manpower they need to abandon the party but remain electorally competitive.
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It also does not seem to be the case that earmarks are primarily used to shore up the electorally vulnerable.
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"The advantage is it perhaps becomes a strategic substitute to an impeachment process that could backfire electorally," said former-Rep.
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Build partisans want to organize tenants, defend sex workers, topple white supremacy, and defeat capitalism, sometimes electorally and sometimes not.
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We think that is a recipe for the sort of collapse we saw, especially down ballot electorally of the left.
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But it would be a different — more electorally effective — brand of identity politics, not a rejection of the underlying concept.
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And a long history of residential segregation — from which Republicans have benefited electorally — has concentrated black voters in these places.
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Making sure people know it's not true could be electorally potent — as could reminding people of what Democrats stand for.
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Think of his commerce secretary's attempt to add a citizenship question to the census, which would benefit the Republicans electorally.
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"Colombia cannot become a failed state electorally because of the enemies of peace," the former guerrillas wrote in the statement.
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In response, House majority party leaders have clamped down on amendments to shield their members from those electorally risky votes.
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But even if his party remains as electorally marginal as analysts say it is, his critics say he is dangerous.
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In sum, it seems that whatever comes out about this list isn't likely to hit electorally vulnerable incumbents very hard.
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These two parties can compete separately from, and with, one another under PR rules and still both be electorally successful.
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Republicans stand to benefit electorally from laws that limit turnout among minority populations and other voters hit by restrictive voting rules.
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So, he&aposs talking about hurrying this thing up, obviously politically motivated and electorally motivated, what is your thinking behind that?
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The caste-community matrix which was almost electorally buried by the BJP during the 2014 general election is back in focus.
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Should those electorally-rich states remain off the board, North Carolina's 15 votes become more important for Trump's path to victory.
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In Mr Moreno, his vice-president in 2007-13, Mr Correa chose an electorally effective successor—but not a pliant placeholder.
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He could lean even more heavily into his supposed empathy for voters in the electorally vital Rust Best and Upper Midwest.
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Here's how they viewed the exercise:38% thought an inquiry was the right thing to do and would help Democrats electorally.
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VP debates don't matter much electorally because people vote for the candidate atop the ticket, not the candidate at the bottom.
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Electorally, that helped the Republicans gain seats in the 2002 midterms and President George W. Bush win re-election in 2004.
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All the insiders involved with these latter-day candidacies believe themselves to be much more electorally savvy than they actually are.
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Whether Democrats can take advantage electorally depends on whether they are willing to build a coalition that's welcoming to disaffected Republicans.
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But Republicans have opposed any kind of manipulation of the raw data because they believe it's an attempt to hurt them electorally.
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Maybe it will come off as too far from the status quo and fall flat electorally, or distract from more popular issues.
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"Obviously, these defections are creating a real problem electorally for Mr. Trump," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University poll.
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But electorally, it probably doesn't matter all that much, because we are still nine months out from November, Lee and Sides said.
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Focusing on those "identity politics" issues would not only be the right thing to do, but also wise, electorally speaking, for Democrats.
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Democrats have learnt a key lesson from Republicans: you can be obstructionist with the highest court and get away with it electorally.
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Losing the "Conner vote" by anywhere near 30 points is electorally deadly industrial Midwest considering how many voters look like the Conners.
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If they can use these polls to persuade senators that it's electorally harmful to vote for Kavanaugh, it could help their cause.
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Specific policy stances are comparatively less important, electorally, than a candidate being seen as a part of Team Blue or Team Red.
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The electorally crucial southeastern state — where a 2000 recount and subsequent legal battle determined the presidency — is no stranger to high-profile recounts.
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With a nervous eye to the mid-term elections due next year, most Republicans therefore consider attacking the president to be electorally suicidal.
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Perez, create electorally safe districts where kicking out an incumbent becomes nearly impossible, even if the district's constituents disagree with their representative's actions.
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By his and his aides' own admission, they were surprised at how quickly a movement-based candidacy turned into an electorally viable one.
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Despite the support for impeachment, more than a quarter of Democrats said they think an impeachment inquiry will negatively impact their party electorally.
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I'm supposed to offer up words like "resist" and "fight" as if rebellious enthusiasm is enough to overcome federally, electorally sanctioned white supremacy.
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India's Hindu nationalists have worked for decades to create an electorally beneficial Hindu coalition, undivided by caste, posited against the secularists and minorities.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) on Monday launched a series of digital ads targeting more than a dozen electorally vulnerable GOP lawmakers.
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To be electorally competitive, political parties will need to adhere to some variant of the Hindu nationalism and jingoism exemplified by Mr. Modi.
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A political party that struggles to connect with a significant portion of Americans should be gravely concerned about its ability to compete electorally.
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I mean, I think progressives like you would be the first to admit that, much to your displeasure, conservatism has been electorally quite successful.
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They have made it not just possible but also electorally beneficial for a friendly leader of a crucial partner to bash them in public.
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A number of the party's most electorally vulnerable members, known as "Frontliners," have also come out in support of an impeachment inquiry, including Rep.
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Rick Scott, who hails from an electorally crucial state, has been tossed out by The Washington Post as a possible running mate for Trump.
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According to the former dean of the Supreme Court press corps, senators' votes on Court nominees have seldom made a difference for them electorally.
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Tiny, electorally trifling and obsessed with guns and weed, cherished emblems of its 24,25 members' freedom, the party has never mattered in national politics.
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If you thought Trump's job was to expand his base of support in order to become electorally viable, then he lost, and lost big.
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But even in such a strong year, they sometimes struggled to match their traditional support in electorally significant areas — with serious implications for 211.
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It has been electorally profitable, however, and most analysts believed that "la grieta" would define the general election, to be held on Oct. 27.
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"His ability to keep bringing in new people, and people that have not been involved before, is just such a strength electorally," said Eadon.
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The M5S's most cherished, and electorally popular, item of legislation is one that would slash the number of elected lawmakers to 600 from 945.
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While Bloomberg and Sanders have been quite effective electorally, they have had and could have, as president, difficulty turning their policy prescriptions into action.
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"Electorally, the BJP is going to have a tough cycle," said Rahul Verma, a fellow at New Delhi think-tank Centre for Policy Research.
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The conclusion, however, remains the same: Fox appears to be a decisive influence in making the Republican Party as currently constituted an electorally viable entity.
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Legislating requires both the setting of priorities and the asking of tough questions about what the party's more vulnerable and electorally moderate members will support.
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And reporters are accustomed to dealing with typical politicians who quit when it looks like they can't win electorally because that's all they care about.
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Maybe it's time to argue that parties should adopt positions by arguing for those positions on the merits, not because they're electorally useful or mandatory.
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Internet search results and "trends" are now as integral to the presentation of debates as old-fashioned polls, even if they might be electorally meaningless.
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We absolutely will hold accountable those who voted for it, and we'll take that vote into consideration when deciding whom to support electorally this year.
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A former chairman of the House Budget Committee and the governor of a large and electorally critical state, Mr. Kasich did not lack in credentials.
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Whether such an abstract approach would prove electorally successful is of course unknowable; that it would articulate a coherent opposition to Trump's politics feels certain.
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But the House speaker's calculus may have changed now that many of the more conservative and electorally susceptible members are publicly supporting such a move.
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This means that somebody like Trump would not have to become the candidate of a mainstream, center-right party in order to be electorally successful.
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Files from deceased Republican strategist Thomas Hofeller show that he studied the effects of a citizenship question and found that it would electorally benefit white Republicans.
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An examination of the narratives elites tell each other to explain their losses suggests that many elites, particularly Republicans, don't believe that centrism is electorally beneficial.
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So is a very electorally successful senator from the blue-leaning state of Minnesota, and the former holder of a somewhat swingy House seat in Maryland.
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He said Democrats would not be compromised by such funds because DNC members don't make laws in Congress, they merely work to strengthen the party electorally.
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They are the largest minority group in the United States and their numbers are especially strong in electorally crucial states like Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Virginia.
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So the Green Party surely still appeals to those who want the American economy to become fully eco-socialist—an inconsequential niche of voters, electorally speaking.
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What all these people had in common was an immense sense of grievance against an establishment they had vanquished electorally, but whose ideas still defined them.
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New York lags behind more electorally advanced states in its refusal to allow voters the convenience of same-day registration, early voting and easier absentee balloting.
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All of this will bolster the principlists — defeated time after time in local and national elections — and enable them to regain politically what they lost electorally.
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"There are a lot of people ambivalent about impeachment but nonetheless are disapproving of his conduct, which I expect is what will really matter electorally," Garin said.
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The age of Trump has energized Democrats across the country, as progressive groups focus on winning races in regions that had been deemed out of reach electorally.
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Andrew Gillum Gillum, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Florida, was heralded as an emblem of the future of the party — young, black, progressive and, apparently, electorally magnetic.
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And although Mr Corbyn commands only flimsy support among Labour's 229 MPs and polls suggest that he is electorally radioactive, he retains the backing of party members.
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Without extreme partisan gerrymanders, widespread voter suppression, and strict anti-immigration measures, the conservative political coalition may no longer be electorally viable in an increasingly diverse country.
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The answer, attested to in mountains of studies and visible everywhere in our politics, is this: Change of this magnitude acts on us psychologically, not just electorally.
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To triumph electorally, the left has to devise winning strategies that suit the electorate it faces now and not one it hopes to bring into being later.
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But taken together, the results give good reason to think Medicare-for-all is more of a wash electorally than the discourse might lead you to believe.
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As Ezra Klein recently pointed out in The New York Times, the brute demographics of American politics make Democrats more electorally dependent on centrists than Republicans are.
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But in the subsequent 1994 congressional elections, Democrats were wiped out electorally and the assault rifle ban was seen as a major reason for this massive loss.
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Warren was frequently feuding with members of Obama's economic team and has embraced a number of electorally dicey positions like providing government health benefits to undocumented immigrants.
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But the controversy dissipated almost as quickly as it had appeared — particularly in electorally influential Quebec — seemingly doing little to dent Liberals' standing in public opinion polls.
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Mueller said instead that there was "insufficient evidence" to charge a conspiracy after writing in his report that the Trump campaign "expected to benefit" electorally from Russian interference.
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Did he benefit, electorally, personally and professionally -- and is he defended even now -- because of assumptions that he belonged and that his intent mattered more than his actions?
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At a time when our community is constantly under attack, it is more important than ever that Latinos participate; not just civically and electorally but through public service.
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The economic disaster in Puerto Rico was largely caused by liberal policies, but ironically it is now liberals in Florida and elsewhere who are poised to benefit electorally.
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Reintroducing the explicit class conflict theme isn't going to reverse the profound social shifts that drove this realignment, but it could cut against them in electorally productive ways.
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Doing that in New York, and in the other electorally benighted parts of America, is vital to preserving democracy and the public trust it depends on to work.
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Enough time has been spent bickering over the particulars of an electorally risky proposal that is unlikely to come to pass, no matter who wins the White House.
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In one answer he spoke to women in the suburbs who want healing after Trump's hate and the young activists who simply want to crush the GOP electorally.
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Far-right populism in the West, in particular, had been around for decades before the crash — and didn't gain too much electorally in the immediate wake of the crash.
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Barbara Comstock represents the Washington, DC, suburbs — a very affluent area with high immigration and a large population of people with college degrees, where Trump has always struggled electorally.
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But electorally, the sorts of places where Mr Farron's welcome blend of social democracy and liberalism does best are safe Labour seats in places like London, Bristol and Norwich.
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As the campaign progressed, more and more Republican down-ballot candidates distanced themselves from the Ryan budget or rejected it entirely for fear that it would doom them electorally.
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The age of Trump has energized Democrats across the country, as progressives focus on winning races in parts of the country that had been deemed out of reach electorally.
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"These special rapporteurs should by this time realize that they, who believed in the untruthful advocacies of the electorally vanquished pretenders, have likewise been demolished, beyond redemption," Panelo said.
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They can be broken down easily into two groups: those who are up for tough reelections in red states in the 2018 midterms, and those who are electorally safer.
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Mr. Moore, the Republican, was an electorally weak nominee even before allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls led Republican leaders to call for him to leave the race.
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But electorally, it may not amount to more than mutually assured destruction — especially in a diverse state like Nevada, where both candidates are struggling to connect with nonwhite voters.
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The American people, or at least enough electorally to make the difference, grew so tired of the status quo that they sent Donald Trump to occupy the White House.
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But it's not a particularly distressed region, and efforts to target assistance to electorally crucially Midwestern industrial states would end up bypassing the places that are most in need.
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"It is very hard for a government to do something that is not electorally popular and paradoxically when you have a mandate like this it is even harder," he added.
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"The author's goal is to try to reach that small but electorally significant percentage of Trump voters who might be persuaded not to support him again," Latimer told the paper.
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No doubt President Trump, and those surrounding him, have the political instincts to realize that dealing with healthcare is not only good for the county, but good for them electorally.
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It has long had an uneasy relationship with Orban, but has tried to avert a full split with one of the most electorally successful leaders in ex-Communist central Europe.
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So there is a Panglossian end in sight: Trump's norm-busting ways drag the Republican Party down electorally and end with him defeated in 2020 by a reenergized Democratic coalition.
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In rejecting this electorally disastrous brand of politicking, they are all undoubtedly cognizant of the critical role that left-wing identity politics played in Donald Trump's ascent to the presidency.
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New Mexico, South Carolina, and Oklahoma round out the bottom 10, and, while not contiguous with the poorest seven, they are also not in the Midwest and not electorally competitive.
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Obviously, none of this is a guarantee of Democratic victory in 2020 — really, it is not — but it is an important sign of Democratic resilience in an electorally critical region.
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But the evidence suggests that any aspiring politician who tried, in the name of Catholicism, to roll back the liberal consensus on bio-ethical and reproductive issues would be thumped electorally.
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But with Republicans holding a razor-thin majority in the Senate, a handful of politically moderate or electorally vulnerable senators on either side of the aisle quickly gained the most attention.
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But he has shied from broaching the electorally trickier question of air pollution, which is hard to fix and risks treading on the toes of both big industry and small farmers.
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Since most of Dr. Stein's support is in states like California where Clinton is poised to win by large margins anyway, electorally the Democratic nominee would still win by a lot.
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The Framers wisely wanted the electorally accountable Congress — and not even the fairest prosecutor in all the land — to render the ultimate judgment when a president is accused of serious misbehavior.
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It is easy to regard leaders like Revels (including, later, the electorally reticent Booker T. Washington) as "Uncle Toms"—a term that, Gates notes, doesn't become pejorative until the next century.
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Also, people have to stop thinking that because they see some corruption in the system, they can live outside that system by not participating in it in any way, including electorally.
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Bennet is pitching himself as a pragmatic lawmaker who has a progressive voting record but who also knows what it takes to win in an electorally split state such as Colorado.
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The woke candidates have been the weakest, electorally speaking, and the defining attribute of the Democratic primary has been a preoccupation with the voters that put Trump in the White House.
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Compounding the problem, the founders put Congress at the center of lawmaking, and their design guaranteed that legislators would be electorally tied to their local jurisdictions and highly responsive to special interests.
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It seems clear that Sanders's anti-establishment streak is compelling to many voters, especially to electorally crucial white working-class swing voters in the Midwest who feel alienated from the political system.
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In North Carolina, Republicans have repeatedly won 10 of 13 seats in the state's congressional delegation this decade, despite the state's status as one of the most electorally competitive in the country.
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However, just because Democratic advances with the Jewish vote were not enough to blunt Trump's huge gains with other voting blocs, does not mean Jews should be easily disregarded as electorally unimportant.
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To this end, both parties have been for years raising the possibility that the opposition can be electorally vanquished; it is only then, it is often claimed outright, that progress can occur.
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Mr. Modi did indeed benefit electorally this time from his garishly advertised schemes to provide toilets, bank accounts, cheap loans, housing, electricity and cooking-gas cylinders to some of the poorest Indians.
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While Mueller did not establish that the Trump campaign had conspired or coordinated with the Russian government on its election interference, he concluded that it expected to benefit electorally from the operation.
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They worried that Tuberville, a first-time candidate with a checkered business record — including a former business partner who pleaded guilty to fraud charges — might prove (electorally) to be another Roy Moore.
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And in order for us to put forth a strong message that women are going to lead the victories in 2018 electorally, we had to go to a state that was relevant.
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Hawke served as Prime Minister for almost nine of those 13 years, winning three more polls in the process and cementing his legacy as the party's longest-serving and most electorally successful leader.
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Corbyn, though he has twisted this way and that to avoid taking responsibility for his past positions – or even admitting he had them – may not suffer electorally because of his views on Israel.
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More than 70 members of the House of Representatives have come out in support of an inquiry into impeaching President Trump, including some of the most electorally vulnerable members of the Democratic Caucus.
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The commonwealth may have slipped out of the top tier of states electorally, but as its cousin Ohio can attest, a smaller state can still have big power – but only if its fickle.
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Trump's election threw wide the Overton window; political rhetoric and behavior that was previously unthinkable is now electorally viable, as we see with the ascendance of regressive, fame-seeking dilettantes like Clay Higgins.
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Most MPs, and most commentators, believe that in trying to do so they will transform the party's prospects of winning places like Nuneaton from remote to non-existent and make it electorally irrelevant.
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More importantly, should Erdoğan emerge electorally victorious but politically weaker with a narrow electoral margin — a real possibility — tensions with the West would put him at greater risk of Russian manipulation against NATO.
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Similarly, it's possible that Donald Trump Jr. committed a crime by conspiring to obtain electorally valuable information from a foreign government, and other Trump associates might be charged with something related to Russia.
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If McConnell's entire goal has been his political advancement within the Senate (which also requires supporting the Republican Party electorally by any means necessary), his career trajectory suddenly develops a tidy narrative throughline.
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Electorally, Democrats can win over small-business owners and moderate Republicans with a platform of investing in education and research to build an American economy that competes with the rest of the world.
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The Framers of our legal system wisely placed all legislative power in the hands of officials who remain electorally accountable to the people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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Knitting this latent energy into a durable and electorally viable coalition will be the work of a generation, but it's hard to see how American liberalism can get off its heels without trying.
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"The Politician" is not a musical, though it stars Ben Platt ("Dear Evan Hansen") as the electorally ambitious teen Payton Hobart and is sensible enough to give him the occasional excuse to sing.
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In just months since taking power, Duterte is actively leading the Philippines on his electorally promised campaign to illegally and systematically exterminate individuals with Addictive Illness, as well as their alleged illegal suppliers.
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Many electorally vulnerable House Republicans are supporting the payments, and some observers note that without the money, Republicans could be blamed for premium increases announced in October, a month before the midterm elections.
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Critics of Lilla's position replied that this would be electorally ineffective — Democrats need minorities, and need to appeal to their particular identities to get them — but, more fundamentally, that it would be wrong.
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The fact that the race was ultimately decided by fewer than 20123 votes sparked a debate about the extent to which George W. Bush — and other Republican candidates — electorally benefit from this democratic exclusion.
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But Mr Hollande will leave behind him a French left that is electorally fragile and has failed to decide between two future paths: a reformist centre-left programme and a far-left socialist one.
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"The author's goal is to try to reach that small but electorally significant percentage of Trump voters who might be persuaded not to support him again," said Matt Latimer of Javelin, the writer's agent.
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While Romney was occasionally critical of Trump during the 2018 Senate campaign, he said and did nothing even close to as overt as this Post op-ed when it could have hurt him electorally.
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But if we don't engage in the questions of governance at all, then what we do is effectively push on the structures but then allow the Republicans and Democrats to settle the issues electorally.
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An easier problem to identify is that, spoken aloud, those views may hurt him with electorally important constituencies, or reflect poorly on his ability to stay "on message" in the manner expected of politicians.
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That is the price for remaining electorally relevant and trying to reverse the trend of Labour's loss of three elections in a row and its failure to win a parliamentary majority in 12 years.
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It turned out that the students were mostly high schoolers from Massachusetts there on a school trip to check out the Iowa caucuses, and thus ineligible to support Walsh in any electorally meaningful way.
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The exemption is also a response to some odd political pushback: after the initial call for a broad flavor ban, vaping groups claimed that such a ban would hurt President Trump electorally in 2020.
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Erdoğan has made no bones about the fact that he wants to smash the Kurds, whom he considers a terrorist insurgency, and who make a fitting punching bag for Ankara's electorally vulnerable nationalist leader.
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In particular, the Democrats who represent electorally crucial states that Trump won narrowly — Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin most of all — have no particular reason to fear that the president-elect is a political juggernaut.
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Electorally, it presumes that pretty much everyone who didn't vote for Donald Trump in 2016 is steadfastly opposed to his presidency — and that there's next to nothing he could do that will change their minds.
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But if it can show any signs that it is improving its numbers with non-whites, southerners and mid-westerners -- then the revolution can prevail over time politically, even if it loses this year electorally.
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Blankenship, a former mining executive who spent time in prison for violating mine standards at a company that had a deadly mining disaster in 2010, is seen as being electorally weak in a general election.
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The Democrats' embrace of the social movements of the 1950s and 1960s was electorally costly, shaking up the old New Deal coalition such that Southern whites and many working-class voters fled to the GOP.
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And since Trump is often willing to play it fast and loose with the truth, as he did with Comey's intervention, having an unethical and electorally manipulative FBI director might be a very bad combination.
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It's worth noting that the state of Indiana was never close electorally, and there's little evidence that trade with Mexico is overall a major contributor to any kind of big problems in the American economy.
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Mueller also unearthed "numerous links" between the Russian government and Trump's campaign and said the president's team "expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts," referring to hacked Democratic emails.
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As FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver notes: The potential for House Republicans to do electorally self-destructive things as they compete to see who's the MAGA-iest potential Speaker in the land seems like an underplayed story.
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Rather than cater to spurned elites' preferences - as Hillary Clinton very consciously did -Democrats would be wise to conclude that agitating against decadent elites is in fact a highly viable strategy, not just electorally but ethically.
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Some of them were surprised by the backlash they got from constituents about the rule proposal — implying that they might suffer electorally; others may have been persuaded by the criticism (however mild) of the president-elect.
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Opinion Columnist The demographic changes coming over the next few decades — the continuing rise of a more diverse electorate, with more liberal views than previous generations — won't destroy the Republican Party or make it electorally insolvent.
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Ninety percent of respondents, for example, say that it is a major problem that their wages are too low to support a family, and that figure jumps to 97 percent among those who are electorally engaged.
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The circle of inclusion is being drawn smaller and tighter around an electorally deadly singularity: White people who espouse Christianity, accept patriarchy and misogyny, and turn a blind eye to (or sometimes openly encourage) white supremacy.
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Against a cultural backdrop of virulent hostility toward the continent's Muslim communities, campaigning on the ability to deny new arrivals essential privileges — from housing and health care to child care and welfare — can prove electorally beneficial.
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Beyond being electorally necessary, progressives are told, moderates actually share the same goals as figures further left—that the party's divisions are ultimately a matter of choosing between reasonable and unreasonable paths to the same destination.
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Is there anything in your report that calls into question special counsel Mueller's conclusion that the Trump campaign not only knew about Russia's interference but they encouraged it and they expected to benefit electorally from it?
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Data For Progress concludes this test shows the ambition of such a project wouldn't cost Democrats electorally, and therefore they could charge ahead with a Green New Deal-like plan without the fear of political repercussions.
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Instead of costing him votes, Tesler continued, the large effects of racial attitudes in Obama's election, therefore, did not so much hurt him electorally as they polarized voter preferences based on their feelings about African-Americans.
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While many pundits are arguing that it may not change the race—New Hampshire, a white, affluent state, is particularly well-suited for Sanders, electorally speaking—it is still a remarkable achievement for a Jewish democratic socialist.
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There's tons of ideological diversity within Black America but it doesn't exercise itself electorally in the same way that it might for other races, and that's because of the pragmatism and not because there isn't a diversity.
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More than 87 million people across seven states are eligible to vote in this phase, which includes some of the country's most electorally important regions such as Uttar Pradesh, the state with the most members of parliament.
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The publication of the photo comes amid an acrimonious debate about multiculturalism in Quebec, an electorally vital province, which recently passed a law barring public-sector teachers, judges and police officers from wearing religious symbols at work.
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Most notably, in a Washington Post op-ed published Monday night, seven moderate first-term Democrats — all of whom but one are "frontliners," the group of the party's most electorally vulnerable members — pushed for an impeachment inquiry.
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From my perspective, there are two big reasons why a candidate for speaker wouldn't be a good fit: She or he hurts her or his party electorally or the speaker is not representative of the party they represent.
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"The worst thing you can do is try to force a resolution politically rather than electorally," said Adam Goodman, a Republican political consultant who advised then-Secretary of State Katherine Harris during the Florida presidential recount in 2000.
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Republicans, electorally stung by their 2017 efforts to repeal the law, now go out of their way to avoid talking about it at all—preferring to see courts, packed by their lifetime-appointed judges, do the dirty work.
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In an unusual move, two rival political parties in Uttar Pradesh -- the country's electorally most consequential state, which always paves the way for the prime minister -- formed an alliance which will likely cut into the BJP's vote share.
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But while Two-Income Trap does not exactly reflect Warren's current, much more ambitious, post–financial crisis policy agenda, it does outline a version of Warren that could be more broadly electorally appealing than her current national perception.
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"In Spain there isn't an extreme right that is electorally important, to a large extent because we [Podemos] were born, because we have channelled part of the political and social frustration," says Iñigo Errejón, one of the party's leaders.
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Pelosi's decision to launch the inquiry did quell a growing clamor within her party, especially from the left, for Trump to be impeached, an effort she had been resisting for months amid worries it could backfire on Democrats electorally.
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Some of them are upset in principle that the White House and House leadership are catering to the wishes of the Freedom Caucus rather than to the needs of the Coverage Caucus (many of whom are relatively electorally vulnerable).
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As usual, electorally vulnerable Republicans condemned Trump unequivocally, while party leaders like Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan contradicted his words only, as if they'd been uttered by a disembodied voice, rather than by the standard bearer of their party.
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This is the core of his appeal to Democrats as a potential 28503 candidate: He is someone who understands the industrial Midwest in his marrow, and he can carve out a path to victory in that electorally vital region.
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A different lawsuit filed this week from election rights groups accused Mr. Kemp's office of "excessive rejection" of absentee ballots in Gwinnett County, which is electorally important, increasingly diverse, and beginning to lean liberal as the state's demographics change.
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" Mr. Mueller's investigation found that "the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.
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This followed a nearly two-year investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that found that Donald Trump's 2016 political campaign expected that it would "benefit electorally" from foreign help, which it knew about and utilized to win the election.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Politicians who fail to act on climate change will pay the price electorally, the head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a climate speech on Wednesday, criticizing some governments for going the wrong way.
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Warren has visited each of the first four states often because she will need to clearly establish herself early as electorally viable; she has also gone to Alabama and Tennessee (Super Tuesday, March 3, states) as well as Mississippi (March 10).
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Because the power to remove Mr Trump is vested in the Senate—which is both controlled by Republicans and electorally biased toward them—popular feeling for impeachment will probably have to become a lot stronger for it to become possible.
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But this ultimately created a force, in Die Linke, that now hoovers up social-democratic votes in the east, is electorally toxic in the west, and without which the SPD may not be able to build a left-of-centre coalition.
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Northam's comment that he would sign a bill banning sanctuary cities in the state last week has potentially put some votes in play given how electorally important that issue is, although there are are no "sanctuary" jurisdictions in Virginia currently.
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"NEW YORK values", a phrase Senator Ted Cruz used to posit America's greatest city as an East-Coast Gomorrah—liberal, licentious, infested with bearded atheists wearing unhealthily constrictive jeans—turn out, electorally at least, to be consistent with American norms.
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"There was extreme anger towards Trump leading into 2016, that didn't cross the line electorally, so Democrats certainly need something to galvanize for Democrats, not just against," said Kevin Cate, a Democratic strategist in Florida who worked on Obama's 2008 campaign.
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Previous presidents have suffered from serious primary challenges "I find it hard to see him as a serious challenge, electorally at least," Vanderbilt University political science and history Professor Tom Schwartz said of Walsh in a Tuesday phone interview with Insider.
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Brexit campaigners used inflated figures to exaggerate the money that could supposedly be switched into the health service from Britain's contribution to the EU. That means the reality of having to pay a large exit bill could be electorally toxic.
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Still, Anderson maintains that in light of new polling data released by the Knights of Columbus, bowing to the hierarchy's opinions on policy is not only the right thing, but also the electorally prudent thing for Catholic politicians to do.
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But in terms of Trump himself, who pretty obviously isn't going anywhere unless he's beaten at the polls in 2020, Democrats will need to be ruthless editors and pick one or two lines of inquiry that advance their most electorally potent angles.
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" But Barr intentionally cut off the first half of that same sentence, finding that (1) the Russian government tried to help Trump win the election, and (2) the Trump campaign "expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.
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As FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten recently pointed out, Republicans pushed the most recent government shutdowns in the mid-1990s and in 2013, and while during both episodes Americans said that Republicans were more to blame than Democrats, electorally, it didn't ultimately mean much.
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Given also that the Democrats are at a historically low ebb, obliterated electorally in much of the country, and with institutions badly neglected under Mr Obama, groups such as Indivisible might not merely influence the party, as the Tea Party influenced the Republicans.
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Nor were other electorally vulnerable Democrats like Joe Donnelly or Claire McCaskill — who must have been fairly desperate to find an issue or two on which they could say they were working with the Trump administration — invited to participate in any way.
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" It also notes that the investigation "established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.
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While Islamism has since come to power electorally in Turkey and Tunisia, it also appears to have lost its way, allowing social conservatives a place in the public life of these countries while mutating into something barely recognizable with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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The Electoral College is a controversial institution, but it ensures that presidents have to be electorally competitive throughout the country, not just able to piece together a third of the country by (for example) doing really, really well in a few areas.
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They could include legal challenges to the president's power to apply these tariffs, pressure by American exporters hurt by compensatory and electorally motivated so-called Mexican tariffs, and overall political resistance to Mr. Trump's decision, including from members of this own administration.
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Here is how Azari, in an unpublished paper written with Scott Lemieux, a political scientist at the University of Washington, pursues the idea that Trump may not fit into Skowronek's scheme: It is far from obvious the Reagan coalition has become electorally unviable.
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Mr. Mueller ultimately concluded that Russia interfered in the election to help Mr. Trump win, but that while the Trump campaign "expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts," it had not conspired with the Russian government.
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The same goes for the establishment Republicans, who are still electorally dead in the water after two bruising defeats in the 2008 and 2012 general election to Barack Obama and an even more embarrassing and clear loss to Trump in the 2016 primaries.
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Having Trump on the ballot "is better electorally and better for having a defining election that creates a mandate, gives you a shot at (recapturing) the Senate and forces the Republican Party to rethink its direction," says veteran Democratic pollster Stanley B. Greenberg.
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He showed little appreciation for the national security threat posed by Russian interference in the 2016 election -- and the fact that Mueller concluded that the Trump campaign "expected it would benefit electorally" from Russian hacking -- nor much inclination to prevent similar attacks in 2020.
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But the parties are electorally competitive because the GOP tilt of the white population is much less severe than the Democratic tilt of the nonwhite population — Trump won 57 percent of whites while Clinton got 74 percent of nonwhites, according to the 2016 exit polls.
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"[T]he investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts," the report states, in part.
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If this were any other candidate in any other election year, it would hardly be newsworthy and certainly not electorally beneficial for a candidate to move to be less offensive in his comments and join the mainstream position of his own party on immigration.
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Electorally, Trump isn't really in a similar position to Brexit at all and he and his campaign should realize that and act accordingly by facing the polls and doing what they can to recover momentum in swing states, although it may well be too late.
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Speaking tonight at a Hillary Clinton fundraiser at Danny Meyer's house in New York, President Obama gave voice to an idea that's widespread among Clinton's biggest fans but not something her campaign likes to say explicitly: The fact that she's a woman hurts her electorally.
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And on Friday, his campaign announced a rally to be held Tuesday outside Seattle in Everett, Washington, home to a Boeing plant that ships planes overseas — a location that's well suited for Trump to rail against global trade deals but makes no sense electorally.
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Whether or not the Congress party gains electorally from this Hindu one-upmanship, it is clear that Mr. Modi, much like Margaret Thatcher claiming "New Labour" as her greatest political success, can boast of Mr. Gandhi's not-so-secular Congress party as his lasting legacy.
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"This is actually electorally savvy; it's not just ideologically good," Annie Weinberg, electoral director of Democracy for America, the populist progressive group that backed Sanders in 2016 and was founded by Howard Dean in 2004, told BuzzFeed News of the group's efforts to support progressive House candidates.
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"I honestly have never understood why it is that, electorally, the governor cannot seem and act as interested as we are in having as many Democrats in the State Legislature as possible," Senator Jessica Ramos, a Democrat who won her seat with W.F.P. support last year, said.
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"From the beginning of his candidacy through the general election, Donald Trump rhetorically positioned himself as a vehement opponent of endless war, inveighing against both parties when doing so," The Intercept's founder Glenn Greenwald argued last week, and that could have been to his benefit electorally.
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Jeff Flake (R-AZ) didn't waste any time claiming that he was leaving to spend more time with his family, and he didn't say it was time to pass the torch of leadership to a younger generation of Americans — the usual explanations of electorally vulnerable politicians.
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In any case the governing parties have agreed to take stock after just two years; a natural point for the reluctant and electorally battered Social Democrats (SPD) to start differentiating themselves more aggressively than last time and for the Christian Democrats (CDU) to start lining up a new leader.
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They thought he could be president -- that he was qualified to be president, and they just needed some piece of evidence to tell them that he was electorally strong and could build the kind of coalition to take on Trump, and they felt they got it in South Carolina.
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With his long roots in more centrist Democratic politics, Biden would likely question whether vanguard liberal goals such as a government takeover of health care, the near-term elimination of fossil fuels, or tuition-free public higher education are electorally feasible, or even desirable from a policy perspective.
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By the time of the 2000 election, there seemed to be a general recognition among Democrats that they were losing electorally on the issue; Republicans had successfully convinced enough voters that Democrats were coming to take their guns, regardless of the actual substance of any given piece of legislation.
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But while it would be easy to dismiss this progressive "squad" of four -- vastly different from most of the Democrats who helped win back the House last year -- as electorally inconsequential, the Democratic presidential primary shows the left may be far more powerful than these House dynamics have let on.
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The special counsel concluded that there was "insufficient evidence" to determine that the president or his aides had engaged in a criminal conspiracy with the Russians, even though the Trump campaign welcomed the Kremlin sabotage effort and "expected it would benefit electorally" from the hacks and leaks of Democratic emails.
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Some Democrats and even some Republicans fear that Trump may be so desperate for a deal that he might be bought off with limited Chinese promises to tackle the trade deficit and to buy more US agricultural products from electorally key states that have been hit by the trade skirmishes.
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This faux-savvy posture was and remains an abdication of both political and moral responsibility, particularly when the president isn't just a criminal, but is actively using government power to entrench racialized despotism—even if permitting him to go ahead and do so is electorally advantageous over the near term.
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Bret: It will be impossible to prove, but I suspect the Republicans will still get some benefit out of the tax bill, in the sense that it would have been that much worse for them electorally if they had failed to pass it and further turned off their own base as a result.
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Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation Trump health official: Controversial drug pricing move is 'top priority' Environmental advocates should take another look at biofuels MORE (R-Iowa) would suffer electorally because, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he didn't give Garland a hearing.
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To ensure those checks would cash, there were countless legislative and legal slugfests that culminated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 21980, which outlawed racial segregation in public places, and the Voting Rights Act of 21.4, which prohibited Jim Crow laws that often made blacks electorally invisible, especially in the South.
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My colleague Lee Drutman, who's also a member of the Voter Study Group, would argue that people who believe progressive economic policies are good for America should just [run on those policies], which might or might not be electorally determinative for progressives or Democrats—nonetheless, they ought to do it because it's the right thing.
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The magazine worked to forge a coherent ideological movement out of disparate groups opposed to the New Deal consensus — from Southern traditionalists to libertarians to strident anti-communists to devout Catholics — and helped create the ideological superstructure of what would emerge under Richard Nixon and especially Ronald Reagan as an electorally potent conservative movement.
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Donald Trump's and, yes, even Bernie Sanders' ascendance is more of a result of the evolution over time of the contradictory logic that, while compromise as a concept is important, the party opposite can be and must be electorally vanquished in order to achieve ideologically pure political progress that will in turn preserve principle.
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Thanks to the Republicans' advantage in opportunities to gerrymander districts after their mid-term victories in 923, as well as Democratic voters' increasing tendency to cluster in electorally inefficient cities, even a 2006-level share of the popular vote, at 53.5% (after accounting for uncontested races), would be consistent with a close race for the House.
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In the first half of that same sentence -- which Barr clipped off -- Mueller tells us, "Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts..." (Volume I, Page 22016-21).
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" Remember that Mueller's investigation established that although the Russian government "perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome," and that "the campaign expected it would benefit electorally" from such efforts, "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.
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Krieg: Do you envision DSA as being an organization that, as time goes by and in addition to its advocacy, runs candidates for as many offices as possible, or do you see more in the vein of the Working Families Party, which might have a ballot line but is fundamentally, electorally, is about providing support and endorsements in primaries?
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Now, at this point a fairly normal thing in the context of American political history would have been for more electorally vulnerable members of the Senate GOP caucus to raise doubts about this strategy, and then for the party's caucus leader to tell his backbenchers that there was no way to hold everyone together on this idea.
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At 37, he could be the herald of a new generation — a mythic role that often sends Democrats swooning (see John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Obama.) Sign up here for more analysis of US politics for global readers He's erudite, an Afghan war veteran, and he speaks the vernacular of the electorally crucial Midwest.
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The lesson of right-wing Republican politics, from Goldwater to Gingrich to the Tea Party, has been that imposing purity tests on candidates can lead to embarrassing failures (such as the candidacies of Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell, and others), but also that fielding ideologically committed candidates can pay huge dividends, both electorally and in expanding the scope of substantive debate.
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And: Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.
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Ahead of the early afternoon vote, here are the 15 GOP lawmakers with the most at stake electorally, along with the lawmaker's current stance in The Hill's Whip List and their district's Partisan Voter Index rating — a metric compiled by the Cook Political Report that uses recent presidential vote results to characterize how a district will perform when compared to the national average.
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Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.
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The Russian government "perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome" by committing crimes including computer hacking; the Trump campaign "expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts;" the Trump campaign had dozens of "contacts" and "links" with the Russian government, and on several occasions, Trump campaign officials lied about those Russian contacts.
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Here's what Barr left out: "Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts …" All in all, the investigation resulted in 34 indictments, including guilty pleas or charges against several top officials close to Trump.
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"Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in the election interference activities," the report says.
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"Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," the report said.
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Knowing it's lost electorally, the Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE campaign is now pushing for a superdelegate coup, one that would discard the will of the Democratic primary electorate in favor of an unearned coronation.
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"Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," Mueller wrote in the report.
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"Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," the report concludes.
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"Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," Mueller wrote.
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"The results of these elections, while not conclusive, may serve as bellwethers for whether the nearly 65 parliamentary seats from the electorally important states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh will ultimately go to the opposition Indian National Congress party or to the BJP in 2019, " said Kartikeya Singh, deputy director of the Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India policy studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in a note.
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Republican politicians looking to get ahead electorally have a new task in 2018: Not only must they align themselves with the policies of President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE, they must also refrain from criticizing his personal behavior.
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"Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit form a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," Mueller wrote in his report released Thursday.
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When we as principled folks in social movements -- leftists, liberals, progressives and other folks on the left -- cede the political space to the political institutions, and only focus on outside power and only focus on protest power, what we do is carve out all of this space so that the conversation is the right conversation, but the wrong people, the wrong actors are left to settle it electorally.
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Here's the lightning round: --They're trying to overturn the election: No, the Constitution provides for both elections and impeachment to remove corrupt officials from office --Schiff ran an unfair, secret process: No, the process afforded Trump ample due process --Trump was unfairly investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller and was cleared: To the extent Mueller is even relevant at all here, he found that the Trump campaign welcomed, encouraged and "expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts" --What about the whistleblower?
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RELATED: Read and search the full Mueller report Here's how the report put it: "[T]he investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts..." Trump asked campaign aides to find Hillary Clinton's emails Mueller learned that after publicly saying he hoped Russia would find Hillary Clinton's deleted emails from her private server, Trump asked people associated with his campaign to find them, including a future member of his White House staff.
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