When Does Not Voting Cost You Your Right to Vote?
More than a quarter of Ohio's registered voters didn't cast ballots last year. And for some of them, that could have been one inactive election too many.
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10 months after 8 years of Obama, Joe Biden says America in grave danger
Biden, while speaking about his upcoming book at the Miami Book Fair in Florida, paused to discuss the Trump administration. He accused the president of not caring about the working class voters that put him in the White House and said he and his advisors take advantage of "change and pain."
Senate Judiciary Committee member Ben Sasse, Nebraska Republican .(Associated Press) ** FILE **
The American Bar Association said Wednesday it didn't ask one of President Trump's judicial nominees about his personal opinions on abortion, saying the ABA's negative evaluation of him was instead based on peers who doubted he could leave his politics behind if he becomes a federal judge. Pamela Bresnahan, chair of the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, was defending her organization's role in the vetting process for federal judges, which involves rating a president's picks.
How the Republican Party Will Die
Gabriel Sherman has done some outstanding reporting and gotten some major scoops, but when he says he has a source who claims that Steve Bannon predicted that Trump has only a thirty percent chance of completing his term, I'm not sure if I can take that to the bank. I do know that Bannon is worried about it, because he's said that on the record.
Trump Is Stumbling Into a Primary Fight in 2020
In early 1983, President Ronald Reagan dropped to 35 percent approval . By the end of the year, he was up nearly 20 percentage points, renominated by acclamation and won a second term with 49 states behind him.
Confessions of a former liberal who voted for Trump
Democrats inclined to stuff fingers in their ears, stomp the ground and whine, "I'm not going to listen to anything that man has to say," should read on. You'll find out how a Gene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern Democrat morphed into a registered Independent who voted for the other side.
Dems eyeing 2018 say ita s time to start talking Russia
Monday's bombshell revelations - highlighted by the indictment of Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort - offer a vivid example of the political bind gripping Democrats, who want to discuss jobs and health care but instead must react to new developments in Special Counsel Mueller's probe into allegations of collusion between the Republican's campaign and Russia. The expectation of fresh breaks in the case, which could last well into 2018, has convinced some leading party operatives that candidates need to simply embrace the Russia story.
Russian Enigma/ From the mailbox
If you remember, during the Presidential election of 2012, Mitt Romney stated during a debate with Barrack Hussein Obama, Russia was our greatest foe and enemy. Mr. Obama laughed and ask if Mr. Romney knew the Cold War was over.
The Roots of theDems Russia Obsession
Five years ago, Mitt Romney was hammering Barack Obama for being soft on Russia. And Obama was ridiculing him as a Cold War fossil.
Trump adviser defends proposed SALT cut
Kevin Hassett, senior fellow and director of Economic Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, is President Donald Trump's chief economist. Kevin Hassett, senior fellow and director of Economic Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, is President Donald Trump's chief economist.
How Trump helped liberals learn to love George W. Bush
Trump is repeating his predecessors' mistakes but in the opposite ideological direction, failing to address the concerns that led to his election and in the process rehabilitating the political forces he opposes. Maybe President Trump can bring peace to the Middle East after all.
How Mitch McConnell Paved the Way For Trump
Back in early 2016, Jon Favreau wrote that "Every election is a competition between two stories about America." That struck me as fundamentally true.
Clinton’s tome won’t help her party rebound
Was this book necessary? Hillary Clinton's anguished, angry memoir of her presidential campaign, "What Happened," was unveiled this week, with television appearances and a 15-city lecture tour to follow. "I love Hillary," Al Franken, the senator from Minnesota, said a few weeks ago.
Kid Rock opens Detroit arena with no political announcement
In the end, the political aspirations of musician Kid Rock were not laid bare Tuesday night before thousands of screaming fans when the rocker performed the first of six concerts at a new sports arena in Detroit. For much of the summer, the Detroit-area native has teased a Republican run for the U.S. Senate.
‘What Happened’ in 2016? Hillary Clinton still doesn’t know
Was this book necessary? Hillary Clinton's anguished, angry memoir of her presidential campaign, "What Happened," will be unveiled this week, complete with television appearances and a 15-city lecture tour. Other Democrats have been dreading this moment for months.
Are women too weak for real life?
Between 1972 and 2016, twelve different people -- George McGovern, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, Al Gore, John Kerry, John McCain and Mitt Romney -- ran for president of the United States as a major-party nominee and lost. We can safely assume that it hurt like all hell for every last one of them -- especially the few of them who lost in a landslide.
Has Trump been tamed by his generals and the Pentagon?
Foreign policy crises comes and go, but the power struggle between an unorthodox and ignorant president and America's military machine is eternal. With North Korea repeatedly demonstrating the potency of its nuclear arsenal, the president and the Pentagon are struggling to counter a new threat to U.S. allies in Asia and potentially to the United States itself.
How presidential disaster visits matter
President Donald Trump and Melania Trump pass out food and meet people impacted by Hurricane Harvey during a visit to the NRG Center in Houston Saturday. It was his second trip to Texas in a week, and this time his first order of business was to meet with those affected by the record-setting rainfall and flooding.
Trump’s Evil Empireby Rich Lowry For many Republicans, what matters…
The media has become for the Right what the Soviet Union was during the Cold War - a common, unifying adversary of overwhelming importance. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, religious conservatives and libertarians could agree that, whatever their other differences, godless communism had to be resisted.
Trump’s Culture War
In a series of tweets on Thursday, Trump called the Lost Cause statues under consideration for removal "beautiful" and expressed his disappointment "to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart." He also reiterated his warning that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson may be the next targets of the anti-statue Left.