Seattle-Area Voters To Become 1st With Full Option To Vote Via Smartphone : NPR
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The candidates in the top 1% have accounted for about 78% of the ad spending in the presidential race so far, according to new numbers.
The two self-funding billionaires in the Democratic primary, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and activist business executive Tom Steyer, have spent the most by far — a combined $320 million, out of $409.8 million spent in the presidential contest up to Jan. 13.
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A federal watchdog concluded that President Trump broke the law when he froze assistance funds for Ukraine last year, according to a report unveiled on Thursday.
The White House has said that it believed Trump was acting within his legal authority.
Trump's decision to freeze military aid appropriated by Congress is at the heart of impeachment proceedings against the president that are shifting venues this week from the Democrat-controlled House to the majority-Republican Senate.
Why Trump Fears Bernie Sanders
Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on Bernie Sanders show that he’s starting to realize something that still escapes most pundits: Sanders would be his toughest opponent to beat in November.
If not for Sirhan Sirhan would Iowa really matter in the presidential race? 🌽
If not for Sirhan Sirhan would Iowa really matter in the presidential race? 🌽
It’s always interesting how little quarks of history come to define our culture and legal institutions. The assassination of Robert Kennedy made the 1968 presidential election for the democrats particularly contentious when Hubert Humphrey was designated the candidate by the DNC delegates despite not running in a single primary – while Eugene McCarthy ran in most of the primaries and either beat or was a close second to Bobby Kennedy. A quark in state law made the Iowa caucuses first but none of that really matters until the age of the presidential primaries selection of delegates being key to selecting the nominee for president starting with George McGovern in 1972.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Iowa is a good state, with fantastic soils and dedicated farm families that work the land tirelessly to produce the second largest agriculture crop after California. Great deer hunting and trapping opportunities in that state, good laws for rural living with few gun restrictions or laws on open burning, but very expensive dirt that really yields and feeds a lot of cows and hogs for farm families. But still a very odd choice to decide who should be forerunner in the presidential race when so much of our country is urban today.
The Trump Administration Is Poised to Gut Environmental Review. What’s at Stake? – Center for American Progress
n yet another handout to Trump’s corporate donors and oil, gas and coal industry allies, the administration is expected to gut implementation of the only law that requires the federal government to consider the environmental impacts of its actions and gives the public and communities a voice in federal decision-making. Thirty industry groups—including the Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute—recently sent a letter to the Trump administration asking it to “expeditiously proceed” with its changes to the law’s implementation. That 50-year-old bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), has never been under such grave threat.
We Tenatively Oppose War on Strictly Procedural Grounds | Ted Rall’s Rallblog
You can always count on the Democratic Party to oppose war, until the Republicans ask them to approve of them.