Democrat Candidates Election 2020
Lawfare? O Judiciário influenciando eleições pela América Latina
Em Quito e La Paz, decisões da Justiça têm sido decisivas para mudar a configuração de eleições que se aproximam, com acusações de uso do Judiciário para tornar a esquerda inelegível. Já em Buenos Aires, uma proposta de reforma judicial sob o pretexto de evitar a perseguição política rendeu protestos contra o governo. The post…
Read MoreWhat’s The Chance That Trump Loses The Popular Vote But Wins The Election Again?
Motion Graphics by Michael Tabb Elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich takes a look at our presidential forecast and asks what weird (and not-so-weird) scenarios could shake out in the 2020 election.
Read MoreA trama do presidente da Assembleia de SC para derrubar o governo salvando o próprio pescoço
Em 28 de abril, quando o Intercept revelou a fraude milionária na compra de R$ 33 milhões em respiradores fantasmas pelo governo catarinense na pandemia de covid-19, os deputados da Assembleia Legislativa de Santa Catarina levaram menos de 24 horas para votar por unanimidade a abertura de uma CPI contra o governador do estado, Carlos…
Read MoreNorth Carolina Is Already Rejecting Black Voters’ Mail-In Ballots More Often Than White Voters’
In every election, a small percentage of mail-in ballots get rejected. But this election is likely to have a whole lot of mail-in ballots. And in an election where a record number of voters are expected to cast their ballots by mail, you’re likely to hear a whole lot about ballots that don’t count, especially…
Read MoreNorth Carolina Nurses Win Union in Landslide After Bitter Opposition
In a dramatic victory for the beleaguered American labor movement, 1,800 nurses at Asheville, North Carolina-based Mission Hospital will now be represented by a union, National Nurses United, as officials finished counting votes early Thursday morning. The victory is the largest at a nonunion hospital in the South since 1975, and is the first private…
Read MoreMore And More Americans Aren’t Religious. Why Are Democrats Ignoring These Voters?
Democrats are once again doubling down on religion this year. Faith was on full display during the Democratic National Convention, where Joe Biden closed out the week with several pointed references to his Catholic faith. And the Biden campaign is also making an ambitious play for white evangelical Protestants and Mormons, two loyal Republican groups…
Read MoreO governo deveria estocar arroz, não você
Eleito com a promessa de enxugar o estado, Jair Bolsonaro criou um estado seco, que só assiste e nada faz. O caso emblemático da alta dos preços do arroz mostra como o desmonte da política nacional de segurança alimentar tem um custo elevado para a população. E coloca o governo diante da própria armadilha: como…
Read MoreElection Update: Where Biden And Trump Have Gained The Most Ground
From 30,000 feet, the presidential race looks much as it did when we first launched our presidential election forecast in August. Joe Biden has about a 3 in 4 chance of winning compared to President Trump’s roughly 1 in 4 shot, according to FiveThirtyEight’s forecast. Biden’s chances did dip down to a 2 in 3…
Read MoreIndigenous Activists Arrested and Held Incommunicado Following Border Wall Protest
Two Indigenous women who were arrested by federal agents while attempting to block border wall construction in southern Arizona last week say they were chained and held incommunicado by the government without access to a phone call or lawyer for nearly 24 hours. Nellie Jo David and Amber Ortega visited the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument…
Read MoreTrump Has Lost His Edge In TV Advertising
For months, President Trump’s campaign boasted that its campaign operation was a “juggernaut” and compared it to the powerful Death Star. Nowhere was that more evident to the general public than on the television airwaves. According to data from Kantar/Campaign Media Analysis Group, from early May through July 28, 2020, the Trump campaign and Republican…
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