Donald Trump’s campaign may be faltering, but Trumpism is alive and well. Police are investigating the at least two dozen white supremacist fliers that were posted on two Iowa campuses this past week. At Iowa State University, some 20 posters reading “In 1950, America was 90 percent white. It...
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Even Trump Voters Support “Stay” over “Go” By 2:1 New polling from Pew Research finds that by a 4:1 margin Americans support a policy that allows undocumented immigrants to stay legally over a policy that does not allow undocumented immigrants to stay legally. Since Pew began asking this question in 2013,...
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Sen. Mark Kirk said in a statement last June that he could not support his party’s nominee for President, Donald Trump: “After much consideration, I have concluded that Donald Trump has not demonstrated the temperament necessary to assume the greatest office in the world.” So if Sen. Kirk isn’t voting...
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English (en español al final de la página): Conexion: What’s At Stake With This Election? DACA Status for DREAMers & Florida’s Economic Future Washington Post: Sen. Mark Kirk questions opponent’s American heritage in Illinois debate By Mike DeBonis Washington Post: Inside the Clinton campaign’s anti-Trump surrogate rollout plans By...
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A cautionary tale from 2010 for pollsters and pundits as we near Election Day 2016. As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) awoke on Election Day 2010, he was considered “a goner,” so said Tom Kludt of Talking Points Memo. As Kludt noted, “In the dying embers of the 2010 midterms,...
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“Papi, can we stay?” Four words sum up what’s at stake for millions in a new ad that encourages Americans to vote in this year’s Presidential election. The ad from filmmaker Joss Whedon never explicitly says that any of the ad’s characters are immigrants — or mentions Donald Trump...
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Gold Star father Khizr Khan said during a campaign stop for Hillary Clinton yesterday that he would stand up to Donald Trump “again and again and again…up until hatred and political bigotry is wiped out of this United States, we will continue to speak.” Khan and his wife Ghazala,...
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Early voting for November’s election is already underway in a number of states, with encouraging signs that Latino, immigrant and AAPI voters are energizing and coming out to vote — some for the very first time. According to one Democratic pollster in Colorado, the early voter numbers “are staggering....
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English (en español al final de la página): Broward Palm Beach New Times: Immigration Activists to Protest Rubio at Broward College Debate By Antonia Noori Farzan New York Times: With a Politician’s Flair, Khizr Khan Tries to Push Clinton to Finish Line By Alan Rappeport Wall Street Journal: Clinton’s...
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A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has Donald Trump improving his standing among Nevada Latino voters by 15 points? Yeah right. We’ve been down this road before. In 2010, most pollsters expected Harry Reid to lose by 4 points. Except that he won by 5 points. Most pollsters didn’t...
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