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Politics Podcast: How To Poll People About Their Political Identity
[ad_1] There’s lots going on in Congress this week, and much of it is existential. The House is scheduled to vote on a $1 trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill this Thursday. But some Democratic lawmakers said they won’t vote for the bill without an agreement on a multi-trillion dollar partisan social programs bill. At the…
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Why Bipartisanship In The Senate Is Dying
[ad_1] Congress is in full-on chaos mode right now, with the future of infrastructure, government funding, the debt limit and voting rights all uncertain. But at the heart of the chaos is a core disagreement over a basic tenet of governing: Is bipartisanship still possible? Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema certainly both think it…
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Some COVID-19 Patients Want Ivermectin So Badly They’re Taking Hospitals To Court
[ad_1] When the suburban Chicago hospital where her mother was being treated for COVID-19 refused to give her ivermectin, Tiffany Wilson had her moved to another hospital. The antiparasitic drug achieved a cult following as a treatment for COVID-19, despite no current evidence it is effective. But that didn’t deter Wilson from suing when the…
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What You Need To Know About This Week’s Elections In Canada And Germany
[ad_1] It’s a big election week for liberal democracies. On this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, we turn our focus abroad, to Canada and Germany, to see how other democracies’ electoral systems work and what cleavages their politics are facing. [ad_2]
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After Nearly 16 Years As Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel Has No Clear Successor In Sunday’s Election
[ad_1] Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. It might be an off-year election cycle in the U.S., but September has been full of high-profile elections. First we had the California recall election, then Canada’s parliamentary election this past Monday. And on Sunday, Germany will go to the polls to decide the makeup of its…
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Politics Podcast: FiveThirtyEight Goes To Canada And Germany
[ad_1] On Monday, Canadians granted Justin Trudeau a third term as Prime Minister but did not give his party a majority in Parliament. Germany will have an election on Sunday to determine who will be the next Chancellor now that Angela Merkel is stepping down after sixteen years in power. In this installment of the…
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How To Spot Gerrymandering In Your State
[ad_1] The redistricting process that’s underway now will determine which political party holds more power for the next decade. Here, FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast host Galen Druke explains how you can follow the process using our redistricting tracker. [Related: What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State] GOP critics of Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ struggling to win reelection…
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What California’s Recall Election Can — And Can’t — Tell Us About The 2022 Midterms
[ad_1] Last Tuesday’s gubernatorial recall election in California was the campaign that launched a thousand takes: It was a good sign for Democrats in 2022; it was a good sign for Republicans in 2022. But we at FiveThirtyEight urge far more caution before taking away any national lessons from California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s victory. To…
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Which Democratic Priorities Will Make It Through Congress This Fall?
[ad_1] Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): With Congress fully back in session, Democrats are once again in the business of legislating. This fall, they’re trying to push through a number of ambitious policies, including both the bipartisan Senate infrastructure bill and their ambitious…
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Jan. 6 Has Given The Right Hundreds Of New Martyrs
[ad_1] In Christian art, saints often hold an object associated with their martyrdom. Saint Stephen, stoned to death, holds a pile of rocks. Saint Lawrence, burned over an iron grill, stands with a gridiron. Saint Lucy offers a small dish with two eyeballs, a reference to her own eyes having been gouged out with a…