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Why are Republicans (unlike Democrats) heavily criticized for their flip-flopping regarding the 2016/2020 US supreme court justice nominations?
The Democrats were in favour of appointing Garland in 2016, but now that the Republicans have set a precedent that Supreme Court Justices should not be appointed in an election year, the Republicans ...
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Why are Republicans (unlike Democrats) heavily criticized for their flip-flopping regarding the 2016/2020 US supreme court justice nominations?
Why are the Republicans being criticized? Because in 2016 they didn't simply say it was party politics as the reason to oppose Obama's choice, nor even that they disagreed with his choice.
They chose ...
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Are there any major left-wing conspiracy theories in the USA?
Yes, there are plenty of conspiracy theories that are primarily supported by left-wing voters and politicians. Here are a few examples (not meant to be an exhaustive list):
Conspiracy theories about ...
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What do Democrats gain from pushing for DC statehood?
One of the core issues, beyond claims it's all about increasing Senatorial power for a party, is that of representation and enfranchisement of US citizens; tax-paying ones, in this case (raising some ...
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Why is DC so, so, so Democratic?
Because it's just one (East Coast) city.
When it comes to congressional districts, Nebraska's third congressional district isn't second in terms of the ratio of votes for a single candidate. DC isn't ...
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Is it true that Jim Crow laws were primarily promoted by the Democratic Party?
Yes. Following the American Civil War, the Democratic party was the primary haven for America's most machiavellian racists, (some of which set also included active criminals and terrorists), who ...
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Seen from Europe, why is there a hard separation between Republicans and Democrats in the US?
The answer is First Past The Post. The nature of the voting system is such that many people who would rather support a 3rd Party feel compelled to vote against the party that they like the least, ...
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Why do candidates not quit if they no longer have a realistic chance to win in the 2020 US presidents election
Most of them are just trying to gain national exposure and recognition. A highly-charged primary cycle is a perfect way to do it.
Probably, one of the losing candidates will be offered the Vice-...
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What are the primary objections Democrats have to a border wall?
It's not clear to me that Democrats are opposed to border-wall construction (your one source suggests they are fine with border walls/fences where necessary), so much as they opposed to some of the ...
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Has Biden's campaign, or the Democratic Party, publicly voiced their opinion on granting some sort of immunity to Trump?
In May of 2020, Biden committed not to pardon Trump or otherwise interfere with any investigations that the Justice Department may or may not carry out:
Democratic candidate Joe Biden said that if he ...
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What do Democrats gain from pushing for DC statehood?
After your edits I interpret your question to essentially be:
Why would politicians propose or vote for things they know won't pass into legislation?
There is nothing particularly Democratic (or ...
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Is it true that Jim Crow laws were primarily promoted by the Democratic Party?
True, but.
This is a classic case of being true on paper but needing extensive qualifiers to be properly understood by a modern day audience.
At the time when Jim Crow laws were introduced – 150 to ...
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Seen from Europe, why is there a hard separation between Republicans and Democrats in the US?
American political parties are essentially standing coalitions that do their coalition building before elections instead of after
What is typical in Europe and other parts of the world is for a ...
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Why are American liberals more prone to in-fighting than conservatives?
Your premise is not correct.
First of all, the 2012 and 2020 elections don't count for your exercise because incumbent candidates almost never face any opposition from within their own party. This is ...
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Why are Deep South states said to vote so lop-sidedly Republican, when they have high percentages of African Americans?
Using the Cooperative Congressional Election Study 2018, we can test your hypothesis that non-African Americans skew as far to the Republicans as African Americans do to Democrats. Let's limit ...
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What did the Democrats have to gain by ousting Kevin McCarthy?
Why would a Democrat vote for McCarthy?
McCarthy is not from their party; Democrats are not normally inclined to vote for Republican speakers
McCarthy single-handedly opened an impeachment ...
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Why did Democrats oppose Ted Cruz's provision to allow funds from 529 plans to be used for homeschooling?
Here is the statement from Senator Wyden (D-Oregon) regarding his opposition to the amendment:
Mr. President, Senator Cruz's amendment expands tax
subsidies for upper income households to aid ...
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Why are Republicans (unlike Democrats) heavily criticized for their flip-flopping regarding the 2016/2020 US supreme court justice nominations?
The main reason for this is down to one question: who won the argument in 2016?
Because the Republicans had a majority in the Senate in 2016, it was them who decided how Obama's nomination would be ...
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Why is gun control associated with the socially liberal Democratic party?
Since Ronald Reagan, the Republican party has had three main pillars:
A low tax, somewhat libertarian group.
A pro-military group.
A moral majority, pro-life group.
The moral majority group ...
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Why did Democrats in the Senate oppose the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (2019 S.130)?
Technically infanticide is already illegal
Roe v Wade legalized abortion. Technically, you cannot abort a fetus once it has left the mother and Federal law prohibits it. Kermit Gosnell, a late term ...
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Why is the consensus that the Democrats are confident of overturning the House majority in the 2018 midterms?
Polling data -- which is what is being analyzed by organizations like FiveThirtyEight -- indicates that Democrats are likely to win a majority in the House of Representatives. Polling data is the best ...
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Was the November 2019 polling about the Democratic Party's lead over Trump trustworthy?
Fully-specified polls are perfectly trustworthy in terms of what polls actually indicate. Their topline results are not very reliable.
Most people think of polls in various incorrect ways. The most ...
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Why didn't Democrats legalize marijuana federally when they controlled Congress?
It would have required a filibuster proof majority in the U.S. Senate (i.e. 60 votes) in addition to a House majority since it was not a fiscal bill or a Presidential nomination to ratify. They also ...
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Why has Speaker Pelosi been so hesitant to impeach President Trump?
Has Nancy Pelosi made any public statements about why she is not supporting a push for impeachment, or what line Trump would have to cross, before she would support it?
On September 20, 2019, House ...
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Why are Democrats mostly focused on increasing healthcare spending, rarely mentioning any proposals for decreasing the costs of healthcare services?
This is a bit of a phony question on several levels.
To answer, they absolutely HAVE emphasized the healthcare cost savings.
First of all, you claim that they focus on "increased healthcare spending,...
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Why are Democrats mostly focused on increasing healthcare spending, rarely mentioning any proposals for decreasing the costs of healthcare services?
Your question seems to be equivalent to: why don't Democrats start acting like (small-government) Republicans when it comes to healthcare? Because that's not their idea of healthcare, or rather it's ...
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Are there cases of Democrats engaging in voter suppression?
As far as I know, there are no reported cases of Democrats suppressing votes in the same manner as Republicans are seen to be doing, however there are still some accusations of voter suppression that ...
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Why are Republicans (unlike Democrats) heavily criticized for their flip-flopping regarding the 2016/2020 US supreme court justice nominations?
which seems symmetrically inconsistent
No, they're not. The Republicans are asking that precedent established by them be disregarded because it benefits them. Democrats are asking that precedent be ...
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Why are Democratic presidential candidates promising free health care for Illegal Immigrants?
Skeptical answer
One could give a skeptic's answer for any form of this question in the context of a political campaign: presumably the candidates feel this answer will be more likely to get them ...
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