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Written by Terrell Clemmons
Earlier this month, David Frum spilled his spleen in a lengthy harangue at The Atlantic titled, This Is Trump’s Fault. Against the backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak, the author of the upcoming Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy, spent more than 5,000 words (that would be about a ten-page, single-spaced Word document, by the way) taking the president to task in hyperbolic, over-the-top, no-holds-barred terms.… Continue Reading
Tags: Coronavirus, COVID–19, David Frum, Donald J. Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, Mike Pence, PragerU, The Atlantic, This Is Trump’s Fault, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Trumpocalypse, Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
Federal Elections, Media Watch, Political | David E. Smith |
April 22, 2020 4:00 AM |
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Written by Jane Ryan Carrell
A September 2019 article in The Atlantic describing a new way of voting for candidates bears the headings “A step toward blowing up the presidential-voting system” and “Maine’s adoption of ranked-choice voting could upend a close race for the White House.”
What is Ranked-Choice Voting, who is adopting it, and should Illinois adopt it? What are the positives and negatives, and how might it affect the 2020 presidential race?… Continue Reading
Tags: Bruce Poliquin, Donald J. Trump, FairVote, GHW Bush, Greg Orman, Hillary Clinton, Jared Golden, Laura Murphy, Lori Lightfoot, Louis Jacobson, Politico, Ranked-Choice Voting, Ross Perot, SB 2267, The Atlantic, Toni Preckwinkle, William J. Clinton
Illinois Politics, Voter Integrity | David E. Smith |
March 6, 2020 9:00 AM |
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Don’t they know we have Google?
Written by Heather Wilhelm
Sometimes I like to think back to the olden days, when it was easier for politicians to tell a good old-fashioned fib. Think of the age of the majestic woolly mammoth, for instance. Trudging along on a typical Ice Age morning, a caveman named Og could blithely tell his rivals Garglon and Thag that he had just run an ultra-marathon, clubbed the neighborhood’s fiercest saber-tooth tiger, and invented the Internet, all in one morning.
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Tags: Conor Friedersdorf, Donald Trump, Enrique Nieto, Fox News Sunday, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Meet the Press, NAFTA, Peña Nieto, Rush Limbaugh, The Atlantic
Federal Issues, Media Watch | David E. Smith |
September 3, 2016 4:00 AM |
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