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What Happens After the Election?

November 2nd, 2010

By Tom Carter The election has finally come. Within the next 24 hours we should know what the House, the Senate, and state governments look like in terms of party majorities. Of course, there will probably be some extended re-counts and possibly lawsuits of one kind or another, but except for the make-up of the […]

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Tags: 2010, Congress, Democrat, election, gridlock, majority, partisan, Republican
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The Political Cost of Reform

March 13th, 2010

By Tom Carter Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen, former and current Democratic pollsters, say that if Democrats ignore public opinion on health care reform, the “midterms will be costly.” In their view, the Democrats’ “blind persistence in the face of reality threatens to turn this political march of folly into an electoral rout […]

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Tags: Congress, Democrats, health care, majority, midterm, minority, Republicans
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