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Other than Mike Honda, the DEM positive ads candidates lost. Just because voters say they don't like negative ads (a…
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So, the 1968 federal minimum wage of $1.60 (adjusted for inflation, equal to $11-12 today) is what killed jobs in…
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Why complicate it?  It's like those that have complicated methods to try to reduce carbon emissions.  Just raise the freaking…
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Agree.  It was just an excuse to reject the logical and rational in favor of whatever the hell it is…
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Idealism and enthusiasm squashed never really comes back.  Next stop is when living becomes really, really difficult.  But then they…
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Thin bench.  A consequence of liberals languishing at the local and state level for decades.  That allows those in office…
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It's not that lower income people don't pay taxes.  They do, but they are in the form that leaves them…
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While conceptually a guaranteed income has merit, practically, it's a political loser.  Minimum wage indexed for inflation works better.  Better…
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Public dollars for public goods and services. Steeply progressive income taxes.  Import tax on outsourced services. Economic sectors that are…
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Taxes aren't killing the "middle class."  It's health care and stagnant wages, and the latter is heavily impacted by health…
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Should add that wrt the 2000 Presidential election -- in the dead of night with nobody watching, Duval Co. came…
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So, magically Duval Co. Republicans/conservatives were energized enough and in just the right numbers to show up and vote for…
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Maybe not to despair as much as adjusting to the changed reality that's now been with us for over a…
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Still the economy, stupid? As the economy, as experienced on the ground by ordinary people, during the first two years…
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Why?  Seems to me that the parties are doing just fine.  Win some; lose some.  But "their" business only changes…
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Democratic mayors since 1962.  Only one crooked mayor.  But don't know about the City Council.  It requires far more expertise…
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fladem -- just read Armando's presentation on the Christ-Scott voting results.  What jumped out at me was the similarity to…
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It's been 25 years since the Berlin Wall fell. I feel old. In another three years it will have been…
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Carter got hit with the second OPEC oil embargo and that along with his not so skilled economic team led…
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Gender gap is difference in the male/female vote within any demographic.  For whites it was 10% in 2000 and 7%…
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