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The Limits of the New South
Splinter
The downfall officially started when uber-conservative Jesse Helms broke the mold in 1972 and joined the new Republican Party. It was then that the liberals that called themselves North Carolina Democrats were first forced to stare at the bed they'd ...

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The centre can holdFar-left candidates have not triumphed in the Democratic primaries
The Economist
... Michael Capuano, a ten-term incumbent, in her Democratic primary. Three months earlier, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pledged that her victory over Joseph Crowley, a 20-year incumbent, was “the beginning” of Medicare for All and other progressive ...

New York Times
For Red-State Democrats, Accusation Against Kavanaugh Scrambles Midterm Calculus
New York Times
Yet there is rising confidence among many leading Democrats that, at the very least, the claim of sexual misconduct deprives Republicans of a potent issue to wield against senators who vote no. Any Republican attacks over Judge Kavanaugh in a ... would ...
Christine Blasey Ford's colleagues describe her as honest and rigorousLos Angeles Times
Anita Hill Mess Helped Elect Feinstein. Now Kavanaugh Mess Has Her in Hot Seat.Daily Beast
Susan Collins wants more testimony from Kavanaugh and the woman who accused him of sexual assaultTimes Record
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The Shrinking CA GOP—Too Conservative or Too Moderate?
Fox and Hounds Daily
With word that conservative Assemblyman Travis Allen is considering a run for California Republican Party chairman against a more moderate former Assemblyman David Hadley, the question that has echoed in party confabs for decades rises again. Is the ...

The New Republic
A Better Way to Fight “Corporate Welfare”
The New Republic
It's been expanded by Democratic and Republican presidents alike, growing dramatically in both the size of the credit and total cost of the program, and ultimately assuming the role of the largest anti-poverty program for the non-aged. Democrats and ...

The Coloradoan
Colorado governor candidates Polis, Stapleton challenge state's moderate streak
The Coloradoan
Meanwhile, voters in this year's governor's race will essentially choose between unabashed progressive Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker Stapleton, who spent the run-up to his party's primary election tying himself to President Donald Trump ...

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Wall Street Journal
What's the Matter With Westchester?
Wall Street Journal
Relatively moderate candidates beat progressive challengers in gubernatorial primaries in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, but Democratic primary voters in Vermont and Georgia selected a transgender and a female African-American nominee who have ...
Byron York: GOP hopes political storm easesThe Mercury

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Jackson Clarion Ledger
Liberals need to take back the American flag
Jackson Clarion Ledger
The appropriation of the flag is not the fault of those who wave it at every opportunity. liberals and progressives have the same opportunities to display and take pride in it, but have shied away from the flag, thinking it too corny, too conservative ...

LA Progressive (press release) (blog)
The 2018 Election So Far
LA Progressive (press release) (blog)
Primaries in New York State reveal the strength and limits of activist liberalism among Democrats. Governor ... But insurgent candidates for the state legislature defeated a group of conservative Democratic incumbents, who had been voting with Republicans.
As midterms loom, GOP hopes political storm weakens, changes courseWashington Examiner

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Fast Company
The startup that's quietly working to make America more progressive
Fast Company
Now, Swayable is gearing up for the midterm elections, where the team is aiming to help predominantly progressive candidates swing voters their way–like it recently did with the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, Andrew Gillum. Swayable partnered ...

USA TODAY
It's not Trump's America or Trump's flag. Liberals, take back our most enduring symbol.
USA TODAY
The appropriation of the flag is not the fault of those who wave it at every opportunity. liberals and progressives have the same opportunities to display and take pride in it, but have shied away from the flag, thinking it too corny, too conservative ...

Bloomberg may run for president as a Democrat, but would he be embraced on the left?
Las Vegas Sun
SEATTLE — Michael Bloomberg is actively considering a campaign for president as a Democrat in 2020, concluding that it would be his only path to the White House even as he voices stark disagreements with progressives on defining issues including bank ...

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Press Herald
Collins among handful of Republican senators calling for hearing on accusations against Kavanaugh
Press Herald
Susan Collins of Maine was among the small group of Republican senators on Monday who called for the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on a sexual assault accusation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. ... He would replace Anthony ...
Susan Collins wants more testimony from Kavanaugh and the woman who accused him of sexual assaultTimes Record
Kavanaugh allegations revive fervor over crucial Supreme Court pickKXLY Spokane
Trump Should Have Nominated a Woman to the Supreme CourtNew York Magazine
The Hill -American Thinker
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Bloomberg considers running as Democrat in 2020
Santa Fe New Mexican
SEATTLE — Michael Bloomberg is actively considering a campaign for president as a Democrat in 2020, concluding that it would be his only path to the White House even as he voices stark disagreements with progressives on defining issues including bank ...

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University of Pittsburgh The Pitt News
Why even moderate Democrats are moving left and changing what it means to be centrist
University of Pittsburgh The Pitt News
Betsy Rader's political agenda includes a check-list of liberal priorities: She unequivocally supports abortion rights, believes in universal health care, talks forcefully about the importance of gay rights, and — per an aide — is “incredibly ...

The Denver Post
Politically Homeless: Q&A With Columnist Max Boot
CALIFORNIA
CALIFORNIA Magazine: In the prologue of your new book, The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, you say you are now “perceiving ugly truths about America and about conservatism that other people had long seen but I turned a blind eye to ...
The primaries are over, now it's on to the fall classicWashington Examiner

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AlterNet
Here Are 8 Conservatives, Centrists and Neoliberals Who Oppose Trump — But Aren't Part of the Left's Progressive ...
AlterNet
Right-wing Americans who use Fox News as their primary source of inspiration could easily be led to believe that opposition to Donald Trump's presidency is limited to a combination of establishment Democrats and liberal/progressive activists. ... But ...

Media Matters for America (blog)
During Kavanaugh debate, conservatives outnumber progressives on the Sunday shows
Media Matters for America (blog)
Conservative guests outnumbered progressive guests on four of the five major Sunday political news shows since the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh began. On the September 9 and 16 Sunday shows, 46.5 percent of guests leaned conservative ...

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MISSSENATE-MCDANIEL:WA — Down in the polls, short on cash and running out of time, Republican conservative firebrand Chris McDaniel says he's far from cooked in his bid to win a U.S. Senate seat from Mississippi that he believes was stolen from him ...

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Bowling Green Daily News
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Virginian-Pilot
... maybe not anymore. A wave of liberal candidates running for office since Trump's election has pushed the Democratic Party to the left, a shift that has changed what it means to be a centrist, or progressive, member of the party. ... MISSSENATE ...
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