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Nov 23 2020
News
Biden To Choose Antony Blinken For Secretary Of State
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Antony Blinken for the coveted secretary of state post, a source familiar with the transition discussions told NPR.
Blinken, 58, has extensive foreign policy experience, serving as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser under President Obama.
A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School, Blinken began his
NPR (Online News)Nov 02 2020
Data
Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic
Numerous polls suggest that COVID-19 is a profoundly partisan issue in the United States. Using the geotracking data of 15 million smartphones per day, we found that US counties that voted for Donald Trump (Republican) over Hillary Clinton (Democrat) in the 2016 presidential election exhibited 14% less physical distancing between March and May 2020. Partisanship was more strongly associated
Nature.comAug 07 2019
Opinion
Donald Trump's Outrageous 2020 Advantage
In the 2020 presidential race, President Trump has several legs up. The most obvious is incumbency. Most of the American presidents who sought re-election since 1900 — including all but George H.W. Bush in the last 35 years — won a second term. Those are good odds, which become even better if Trump avoids a recession between now and Election Day.
Then there’s the Electoral College.
Frank BruniFeb 23 2015
News
After Obamacare: The next Democratic health agenda
The architects of the Affordable Care Act got millions of Americans to sign up for coverage. Now they're quietly crafting the next Democratic health-care agenda: lowering costs.
A half-dozen key Democratic policy influencers, from the head of Hillary Clinton's 2008 policy team to former Obama administration officials, are starting to plan for a post-Obamacare Washington. In recent
VoxApr 09 2016
News
Why Conservatives Will Always Lose The War On Climate Change
Most people don’t realize this yet, but if a Democrat gets the keys to the White House next year it’s game over for the US economy.
This isn’t just for the obvious reason that liberals like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)16% and Hillary Clinton don’t understand free markets or small government.
It’s because the left has got its hands on the magic formula that enables it to do at both
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Franklin D. Kramer
Franklin D. Kramer is a distinguished fellow and a board member of the Atlantic Council and a former assistant secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton. He has a Center bias.
Jan 19 2015
News
Democrats see map and math working to their advantage in 2016 Senate races
The Senate map is the Democrats' friend in the 2016 cycle. They are defending only 10 seats, while Republicans have two dozen to hold. But wait, it gets better. Seven of those 24 Republican seats are in states that President Obama won not once but twice: Florida, Illinois, Iowa, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
To win the majority, Democrats need to win five of those
Washington PostMar 12 2016
News
Rubio wavers on supporting Trump as GOP nominee
Marco Rubio on Saturday said he is no longer sure he can support Donald Trump should he become the GOP presidential nominee following the protests and unrest sparked by a planned Trump rally in Chicago. “I don’t know,” the Florida senator said, pausing in despair, after being asked directly if he stands by his pledge to support Trump if he’s the party’s nominee. “I already talked about the
PoliticoNov 23 2014
News
G.O.P.-Led Benghazi Panel Bolsters Administration
A report released late Friday about the fatal 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, left Republicans in the same position they have been in for two years: with little evidence to support their most damning critiques of how the Obama administration, and then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, responded to the attacks.
Similar to five other government reports, the one released by the
New York Times (News)Jan 23 2016
News
Bloomberg, Sensing an Opening, Revisits a Potential White House Run
Michael R. Bloomberg has instructed advisers to draw up plans for a potential independent campaign in this year’s presidential race. His advisers and associates said he was galled by Donald J. Trump’s dominance of the Republican field, and troubled by Hillary Clinton’s stumbles and the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on the Democratic side.
Mr. Bloomberg, the billionaire
New York Times (News)