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In St. Louis, Voters Will Get To Vote For As Many Candidates As They Want
[ad_1] When voters head to the polls Tuesday to pick St. Louis’s next mayor, they’ll be faced with four names on the ballot. But unlike in most other elections, they won’t have to choose just one candidate to vote for. Instead, St. Louisans will experiment with a new form of voting that allows them to…
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Many South Asian Americans Tap Into Their Community To Kick-Start Their Political Careers
[ad_1] Suraj Patel ran as a Democratic challenger in New York’s 12th Congressional District, funding his run primarily with donations from other South Asian Americans. William Mebane / The Washington Post via Getty Images Suraj Patel’s 2020 campaign website featured three ads: one in English, one in Spanish and one in Gujarati. Only a tiny…
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Politics Podcast: The Final Model Talk Of 2020
[ad_1] By Galen Druke and Nate Silver The true climaxes of the 2020 election cycle — the double Senate runoff races in Georgia — were quickly overshadowed by the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In this installment of Model Talk on the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Nate Silver and Galen Druke look back at…
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How The Georgia Runoffs Changed The ‘Polling Is Broken’ Narrative
[ad_1] In this installment of Model Talk, Nate Silver and Galen Druke look back at the results of the Georgia Senate runoffs and discuss what the Democratic wins say about polling — and what they mean for elections going forward. [Related: How We’re Tracking Joe Biden’s Approval Rating] Confidence Interval: QAnon is not going anywhere…
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What Comes Next For QAnon Followers
[ad_1] It didn’t take long for the neo-Nazis to show up. Minutes after Joe Biden’s inauguration, as followers of QAnon were trying to understand how their predictions of Trump remaining in power had not come to fruition, white nationalists saw a slate of potential recruits. “Don’t let this moment slip by. Capitalize on their anger.…
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Rudy Giuliani booed at Yankee Stadium, sparks question: Where’s Trump going to live post-presidency?
[ad_1] At Yankee Stadium on Monday, Rudy Giuliani could not even draw a polite round of applause for his birthday, speaking to his ruined legacy in the community. Instead, Yankee fans viciously booed Giuliani on Memorial Day, a humiliating blow for the former mayor who oversaw the aftermath of Sept. 11. The 74 year old has never been the…
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Jillian Hishaw wants to help black farmers stay on their land
[ad_1] When Jillian Hishaw was studying agricultural law at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, she learned about the many hardships Black farmers have faced in recent decades. Not only do Black families lose land at a rate of 30,000 acres per year, but the land rush fueled by developers and larger corporate farms has also left…
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Meghan McCain slams White House: “This is not an administration that’s capable of apologizing”
[ad_1] Meghan McCain blasted President Donald Trump on Thursday, accusing him of attacking her father, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer for nearly a year, in an effort to divert from his own political woes. “Since the beginning of Trump’s campaign there have been extremely personal attacks on my family,…
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Bill Maher to Bernie Sanders: “I’ll be with ya if you run again”
[ad_1] Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) stopped by Bill Maher’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” show on Friday. Maher did not hesitate to flatter the former presidential candidate, telling him he was more popular than Stormy Daniels’ lawyer. “Sounds like they want you to run again,” Maher said. Maher wasted no time to talk about politics though.…
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Speech is never free in a world of racist surveillance and repression
[ad_1] Words always matter, but they often matter more when the odds are already against you. The freedom to express oneself is supposed to be protectively enshrined in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. However, for some people this ideal has always been slippery. The freedom to speak our minds can easily transform…