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The Issue That Will Decide the 2024 Election
12Nov By adminNo Comments
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The Issue That Will Decide the 2024 Election

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter.In this past week’s off-cycle elections, Ohioans voted to enshrine the right to abortion access in their state constitution; Virginia Democrats took full control of their General Assembly blue; and deep-red Kentucky reëlected Democratic Governor Andy Beshear. Abortion is “an incredibly powerful issue that has the possibility to realign the parties,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says, and could make a big difference in 2024. Democrats who have made reproductive rights a part of their platform have secured victories in local and statewide elections since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. Yet a new poll, out this week, shows President Biden trai...
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6 Takeaways From Democrats’ Winning 2023 Election Night
8Nov By adminNo Comments
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6 Takeaways From Democrats’ Winning 2023 Election Night

Democrats came away the clear winners of 2023’s off-year elections, with a string of wins across red-tinted and swing states showing the party can overcome President Joe Biden’s unpopularity with a focus on electable candidates and abortion access.The results give Democrats something to celebrate just days after new polling showed Biden trailing former President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, in several key swing states over concerns about Biden’s age and the direction of the economy. Democrats are defending not only the presidency next year but also a narrow Senate majority in states that Trump won and where he remains popular, so their balance of power in Washington hangs in the balance. It wasn’t all wins for Democrats. The Republican Party managed ...
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Abortion Opponents Are Targeting a Signature G.O.P. Public-Health Initiative
24Aug By adminNo Comments
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Abortion Opponents Are Targeting a Signature G.O.P. Public-Health Initiative

At a World AIDS Day event last year honoring George W. Bush, the former President, wearing a suit and tie and a red solidarity ribbon, settled into a chair onstage, microphone in hand. “It takes a lot to get me back to Washington,” he said, “and PEPFAR is it.” Formally known as the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR is easily one of the most successful foreign-policy initiatives in modern U.S. history. Created by Bush in 2003, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, the program is credited with saving as many as twenty-five million lives by investing in medicines and treatment networks. “I’m here to say as loud and clear as I can, Congress must fund PEPFAR,” Bush told his audience. “And you know what? It works, with verifiable results.”Funding PEPFAR has never been a...
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Ohio Republican-Backed Issue 1, Which Would Make It Harder to Alter the State Constitution, Is Roundly Rejected – RedState
9Aug By adminNo Comments
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Ohio Republican-Backed Issue 1, Which Would Make It Harder to Alter the State Constitution, Is Roundly Rejected – RedState

Ohio held a special election on Tuesday to vote on Issue 1, a measure which proposed that a higher threshold be placed in order to amend the Ohio Constitution. Ohio is one of 18 states which allows its citizens to collect petition signatures in order to amend their state constitutions through public vote. California did this in November 2022 when it approved Proposition 1, which enshrined the right to abortion in its constitution. Currently, Ohio law only requires a simple majority to modify the state constitution. Should Issue 1 be approved, it would require 60 percent voter approval in order to pass a constitutional amendment. On Tuesday, voters gave a resounding NO to Issue 1. With over three million votes cast, the measure failed 57 percent to 43 percent. Ohio voters on Tuesday res...
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3 Takeaways From The Election That Gave Ohio Democrats A Win
9Aug By adminNo Comments
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3 Takeaways From The Election That Gave Ohio Democrats A Win

Ohioans unequivocally rejected a ballot measure that would have raised the threshold for amending their state constitution, a move by Republicans to try to make it harder to legalize abortion at the ballot box.The outcome was a resounding victory for Democrats in a state where the left has suffered defeat after defeat in recent years — and a blow to Republicans hoping to block efforts to secure abortion rights. A proposal to codify abortion rights in the state constitution has already made the November ballot and needs only a simple majority to pass. Opponents of Issue 1 — the single item on the August special election ballot — were handily winning with most of the votes tallied.The right framed Issue 1 as a way to bolster the state constitution against tampering by outside special intere...
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