Questions tagged [democratic-party]
Questions related to the Democratic Party, one of the two major parties in the United States.
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Do Virginia Democrats support the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact?
Virginia is not currently a member of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The NPVIC is very popular with Democratic voters (a 2018 Pew Research Center Poll showed 75% of Democrats support ...
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Is an expansion of the US Supreme Court really possible?
With the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, the idea of expanding the US Supreme Court has caught fire among some Democrats. With a 6-3 conservative majority on the court, prominent progressive ...
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Why was Eric Massa's asking of David Wasserman's age a red flag?
In Nate Silver's book he writes that Wasserman of cook political was interviewing Democratic congressman Eric Massa to evaluate Eric's rating by the agency. In the interview, he was looking for red ...
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Why is winning the NYC Democratic mayoral primary currently widely seen as tantamount to election?
During the Bush era and even before that, NYC has elected mayors that were at least back then resembled the governors of states like Vermont today (they had liberal social views, but had more ...
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Do any 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates support a 0 copay 0 deductible Public Option?
2020 Democratic Presidential candidate’s Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders support a single-payer “Medicare for All” healthcare plan with zero copays and zero deductibles. Other candidates, like ...
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Why did Hillary Clinton and her supporters think it was a good idea to demand Bernie Sanders' tax return?
From what I understand, Hillary Clinton and her supporters demanded that Bernie Sanders release his tax return, suggesting that he was refusing to do so and was hiding something, even though the ...
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What was the Caucus App supposed to be used for?
As many of you may know, the Iowa Caucus results are delayed, and many are citing the failure of an app that was involved in the process.
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Why are American liberals more prone to in-fighting than conservatives? [closed]
In America at least, there tends to be far less unity within liberal factions when compared to conservative ones. One just has to point to the last few presidential elections.
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Why did the DNC refuse to hold any debates on Fox News?
Back in March the DNC refused to hold any primary debates on Fox News.
With the second Democratic Presidential Debate coming up in a few weeks on CNN, this question seems especially relevant.
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Has some candidate won the Democratic ticket without winning either Iowa or New Hampshire?
Looking at the latest polls from New Hampshire they seem to mirror Iowa... so I'm curious if a "deep" reversal on Super Tuesday etc. has happened, i.e. did someone not in top two in either Iowa or New ...
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Have any other Republican candidates for Congress accepted only the Democratic nomination? vice versa?
Bill Shuster inherited PA's 9th congressional district from his father in 2002. In most election cycles, he runs unopposed as the district is mostly Republican.
This primary season he won the ...
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What was the Democrats' counter to REDMAP?
For the 2010 elections, Republicans created the Redistricting Majority Project (REDMAP) with the plan of flipping state legislative chambers to take control of the redistricting process. Did the ...
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Did Bernie Sanders being an independent Senator hurt his presidential bid?
I am wondering about Bernie Sanders and the fact that he is technically not a Democrat. (Vermont doesn't register by party, so this is a complicated issue.) Let's go by his Senate affiliation. He is ...
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How important is healthcare reform/plan to Democratic voters?
All four leading Democratic candidates have spelled out, in more or less detail, their vision for a healthcare reform/plan. But how important is the issue to Democratic voters, i.e. are there any ...
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How do half votes work in the DNC chair election?
The first round of the DNC chair election just passed. The results where
Sally Boynton Brown 12
Keith Ellison 200
Jehmu Greene 0.5
Peter Peckarsky 0
Tom Perez 213.5
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How exactly are the number of super delegates determined for the Democratic primaries?
So I totally understand that the super delegates include those such as the president, vice president, senators, past presidents, etc., but I was wondering if there was an exact mathematical equation ...
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Why do people call Bernie the most popular candidate when he's losing? [closed]
Recently I have seen many images on Facebook and elsewhere with pictures comparing large Bernie Sanders rallies to relatively small rallies for other candidates. Often these images have captions along ...
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Why are there only the Democratic party and the Republican party currently in the US?
I was looking at the history of the political parties, and I found out that John Adams was a member of the Federalist party, while his son John Quincy Adams was a member of Thomas Jefferson's ...
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What are the most important reasons that large urban centers in the U.S. tend to lean towards democrats?
There are many candidate explanations for this: the relatively less important role of religion, the relatively higher level of education, the fact that living in crowded areas leads people to ...
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Origin of "longtime House Republican principle that states no bill should pass without a 'majority of the majority' on board"?
Politico's March 22, 2023 McCarthy’s newest challenge: Keeping the House GOP peace on war power includes the following:
Should a standalone war powers repeal bill come up, only a handful of ...
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Have Democrats said a late-presidential-term Supreme Court Justice appointment will be subsequently neutralized?
It has been anticipated that there may need to be a replacement justice during the late part of president Trump's term, as there was during Obama's. The Democratic president Obama nominated a ...
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Have any Democrats embraced any new policies or compromises in an attempt to appeal to conservatives that are unhappy with Trump?
When Trump was nominated as the presidential candidate in 2016, there was a major shift in the Republican party away from classically-liberal small-government party towards a more populist, nativist ...
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What is the rationale for Democrats attempting to exempt African-Americans from this Ohio abortion ban?
According to USA Today the Democratic Party attempted to pass a slew of amendments to Ohio Senate Bill 23, which would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Most of them were pretty ...
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Are the partial results announced in Iowa consistent with prior polling in the state?
This may be a bit of a surprise, but according to some news sources (CNN, BBC), Buttigieg came in first and Biden fourth with Sanders and Warren 2nd and 3rd, after more than half the votes were ...
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Have Congressional Democrats asked the IG to investigate Barr’s actions?
Over the past four years, Congressional Republicans have asked the Inspector General (IG) for the Department of Justice to investigate a number of issues related to conduct by DOJ officials:
Attorney ...
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Why are the 2 US political parties called Republicans and Democrats?
Why are the 2 main parties in the United States called the Democrats and the Republicans? The US is both a democracy and a republic, and neither party's platforms seem to be built around the ...
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Where do the democratic and republican matched animal logos come from?
The democrats are commonly represented by a donkey and the republicans by an elephant and there's many articles that will explain which cartoonist created the associations in the 1870s. What I haven't ...
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Why is proportional representation a nonpartisan issue in the US?
In Western Europe for example, many legislatures have a party-list system and are structured with proportionality, but in the US supporters for a change of system are almost entirely nonpartisan. The ...
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How does the DNC decide who they will let run?
How does the DNC decide who they will let run as a Democrat? What would happen if a candidate applied to run for president as a Democrat who strays very far from the platform? Would he be denied, and ...
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What was the main factor behind the Democratic gains in the 2018 Midterm Elections?
What was the main cause behind the Democratic pickups in House seats? Was it that they were doing something right, either in rhetoric or policy, that the American people liked or was it Republicans ...
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Why are Democrats fighting over Conyers seat in Congress?
I read in the news today that Democrats are fighting over who will take over Rep. Conyers seat in Congress until the next election.
I don't understand. The governor of Michigan is a Republican, so ...
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Why do voters in the US not approve of atheist politicians?
At least in the presidential area of government (from the president down), there are no out atheists. I don't know if there are no out atheists in all of government, but I do know that there are no ...
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How did the Democratic Party control the House so continually from 1956 to 1996?
I saw this picture that shows the partisan divide of the House of Representatives. The Democratic Party had a lot of control back then in the House. This was even during the landslides of 1972 and ...
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Has Nancy Pelosi ever endorsed a primary challenger before?
On August 20th, 2020, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi endorsed Democratic Congressman Joe Kennedy in his ultimately unsuccessful primary challenge of Democratic Senator Ed Markey. This strikes me as ...
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When are Iowa's Democratic district- and state-level delegates (for the presidential contest) completely selected?
From the complicated rules it looks to me like the Iowa story isn't going to be completely over anytime soon because
There's "redistribution" of the non-viable votes (below the 15% threshold) at the ...
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Are there any statistics on union endorsements for presidential candidates?
LA Times mentioned a few, seemingly mostly for Sanders by the big-membership numbers
On Thursday, United Teachers Los Angeles, the second-largest teacher’s union in the U.S., with roughly 34,000 ...
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Does Andrew Yang support single-payer?
2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s website said this on March 9:
With a shift to single-payer, costs can also be controlled directly by setting prices provided for medical ...
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Have Democrats in favour of abolishing the filibuster said anything about what happens if Democrats were to lose control of the Senate in the future?
Senator Joe Manchin has been consistently opposed to abolishing the filibuster, noting that the filibuster provides for minority input.
I can assure you I will not vote to end the filibuster, because ...
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In the Democratic Party Presidential Primaries, how is the allotment of pledged PLEO delegates to each candidate determined?
In the primaries, some of each state's delegates are legally bound "pledged" party leaders and elected officials (PLEOs), as opposed to the unpledged PLEOs that are commonly know as superdelegates. ...
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Attitudes of the two parties towards the central bank
The article on Economist Making Fed Great Again says:
That matters because Republicans have long sought to overhaul the central bank by subjecting its monetary policy decisions to review by the ...
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Why did the entire staff of the Nevada Democratic Party quit after the Democratic Socialists won?
After Judith Whitmer, a Democratic Socialist, won her election to chair the Nevada Democratic Party, she received an email from Alana Mounce, the party's executive director congratulating her and ...
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Is the US public asymetrically polarized? [closed]
I read about asymmetrical polarization in the federal government. It said that Republicans became more conservative more than Democrats became more liberal in Congress. I have found that the opposite ...
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Are there Democratic politicians or groups that support Trump's positions, and if so why?
I was wondering if a Democrat, politician, voters, or special interest groups have found common cause with Trump ideas or policy positions as having some positive outcomes?
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What is the correlation between swing and change in votes cast from the 2016 to 2020 US presidential elections among major parties?
In the past, it was said that turnout benefits the Democratic Party because populations that tend to vote Democratic are underrepresented among actual voters relative to the voting eligible population ...
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Do Democrats in general not perform better than Republicans in handling US economy?
In recent US general election polls, I found that despite that Republicans (Trump specifically) are behind in almost all aspects, they are always leading in being trusted in handling US economy over ...
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What is known about pressure on Klobuchar and Buttigieg to drop out and endorse Biden?
Before 2020 Super Tuesday, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and Joe Biden were seen as ‘splitting the center democratic’ vote.
At the same time, Bernie Sanders had the largest consolidated block of left-...
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Which countries with single payer healthcare ban duplicative coverage?
A single payer healthcare system is a system where all citizens have government health insurance. Now most countries with single payer healthcare allow people to buy supplemental private insurance, ...
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How did Joe Manchin, a Democrat, get elected as governor and U.S. senator in West Virginia?
Joe Manchin III, a Democrat, was elected as governor and later as U.S. senator from West Virginia. I typically think of West Virginia as a conservative-leaning state (in the past two decades, at least)...
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Warren vs Biden in the polls: how sudden was the change?
It's been pointed out to me (hat tip to dolphin_of_france) that some recent polling puts Warren ahead of Biden in the Democratic primary voting intention.
How sudden was this change? How much [of this]...
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Has the DNC barred Sanders from contending in the 2020 Democratic primaries?
The DNC has recently approved some structural reforms, many which are suspect in several ways IMHO, but a particularly interesting one is the following (ignore the pen markings, just read the second ...
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