…VOTER REGISTRATION Date: October 14, 2008 Recent press coverage about voter registration issues has obscured key facts about the American electorate and the problems of the American voting system. This memo outlines important details about: who votes in America, the…
…of course, about what kind of policies we would pursue in office. But they often are obscured, mischaracterized and forgotten in the heat and fog of political battle. Next January, the political leadership of the United States will change significantly…
…tempting to believe….. I believe that graf and the subsequent ones are the theory of the case and they obscured by starting with criminal justice. Wonder if there isn’t a context at the outset that could tee those…
…through the last several election cycles. The biggest contrast would be felt on foreign policy. Paul's expressions of support for a military response to ISIS have obscured just how skeptical he is of the GOP's reflexive, unmodulated hawkishness…
…spent decades fighting Israel and the West and destabilizing the Middle East. The arena of Iranian negotiations is not the only one in which Israel’s tendency to take an extreme position has obscured the justice of an underlying issue…
…ID, for instance, and it's easy to gloss over the complex nature of the Voting Rights Act in ways that obscure the real goal of these policies, which is to systemically reduce turnout among disproportionately Democratic constituencies—the poor…
…referred to Hillary as "the most powerful liberal in the White House." A then-obscure law professor named Elizabeth Warren reached out to Hillary and helped convince her to persuade her husband to veto a bank-friendly bankruptcy bill at…
…aspirations,'' he said in an interview. ''I don't want to minimize their importance, but they obscure the real issue.'' Mr. Reich is one of some 200 economists and academics who have offered Mrs. Clinton ideas and guidance as she…
…and his sacrifice in service to his country in Libya in 2012, an example now obscured by a highly politicized debate over conspiracy theories surrounding the Benghazi attacks. Stevens and his colleagues were on the front lines and trying to…
…of course, about what kind of policies we would pursue in office. But they often are obscured, mischaracterized and forgotten in the heat and fog of political battle. Next January, the political leadership of the United States will change significantly…
…2014 WASHINGTON — Obscured in all the talk about Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 race is a historical achievement unrelated to gender. Twenty-two years after he won the White House and six years after his wife’s near miss…
…reports the "recent focus on lopsided individual races in places like West Virginia (Clinton) and North Carolina (Obama) has obscured what polls now show is a much more fluid national electorate." Clinton's support "among key parts of her base…
…It's a political reality that has largely been obscured so far amid the Democratic excitement over the historic candidacies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and the intoxicating prospect of recapturing the White House. Every House Democrat in Iowa…
…Change within nothing but acceptable parameters is stillborn, and the really serious problems affecting the country get sanded over and obscured by tactics. People whose lives have been ground up over the past decade have their appeals drowned out by…
…rather than every corporation’s right to buy [elections]. (Applause.) (Obscured by audience) If necessary, I will support a constitutional amendment to undo the Supreme Court’s decision to [allow corporate and union money directly into politics] (Obscured by audience…
…water, and ground.” Unfortunately, the simple science has been obscured in our political debate. While special interest groups can make some headway by lobbying, no weapon comes remotely close to the potency of a high-profile presidential campaign when it…
…we make our party stronger." O'Malley might be the hardest-working man in Democratic politics but that's obscured by his low standing in national polls. Early surveys about the 2016 presidential race show Clinton with a runaway lead…
…he was dropping out of the race for Speaker of the House. The focus on Biden – and McCarthy’s remarks -- obscured the relative absence of discussion on the candidate currently leading Clinton in the polls in New Hampshire – Bernie Sanders…
…the-mindfulness-revolution Jeffrey B. Rubin, Truthout: Focusing on the problems already identified with the McMindfulness craze obscures a more profound issue - meditation neglects meaning. This not only opens the door to grave dangers, but also compromises meditation's radical…
…Patricia Lockwood who has Mutiple Sclerosis, hardly an obscure orphan disease, has been "unable to access a neurologist who will work with persons with ms...keep getting referred to docs who are not knowledgable or who in two cases refuses…
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