U.S.
Detroit bankruptcy solved – for now: What about other cities?
November 10, 2014Everyone is congratulating Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and his emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, for helping to craft a bankruptcy settlement in Detroit.
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Mail-in, provisional ballots upset Calif. Republican “upset”
November 10, 2014Republicans badly wanted to win this historically red district, famous as the home for many retired military.
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Seismic shift seen in Florida Cuban American vote
November 10, 2014Despite winning the gubernatorial race in Florida last week, exit polling shows that Gov. Rick Scott lost Cuban-Americans to his Democratic opponent, 50 to 46 percent.
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The fog that blinded the electorate
November 7, 2014There were local and geographical peculiarities, but when an election was as uniformly one-sided as this one was, deeper explanations are required.
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California bucks national GOP election wave
November 7, 2014By an impressive vote of 58.5 percent to 41.5 percent, with a majority in every county in the state, Prop 47 passed, truly a huge people's victory.
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