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Why couldn't Republicans who voted to repeal Obamacare so many times under Obama do it under a Republican president?
Why couldn't they pass a single one of their many, previously-successful proposals under a Republican president?
The simple answer is that you're measuring "successful" by how many votes were ...
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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 aren't Republicans more focused on mobilizing a movement towards 'dethroning' Trump?
Because polling data and Trump's approval rating do not tell the whole story.
As right-wing political commentator Ben Shapiro is fond of saying, two things can be true at once: It's entirely ...
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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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How do the Republicans' recent laws make it harder for Democratic voters to vote?
There's a bevy of tools being used but they boil down to a few basic categories:
Close polling stations in key neighborhoods, forcing longer trips and longer lines at polling stations where voters ...
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How do Republicans explain consistently losing the popular vote in presidential elections since 1992?
The predominant explanation, especially since President Trump's victory in 2016, has been that the recent Republican presidential campaign efforts aren't even attempting to win the popular vote, and ...
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Why does Donald Trump wield influence over Republican Congressmen & Senators?
It's worth pointing out that Trump is not a 'leader' in the normal, political sense of the term, and his power doesn't lie in typical sociopolitical authority. Trump is (to borrow someone else's ...
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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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How can Republicans who favour free markets, consistently express anger when they don't like the outcome of that choice?
I think the misunderstanding comes from how conservatives complain about bias in media and tech. Conservatives often don't call for government action, they just want to shed light on the injustices. ...
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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 the color red for the Republican Party
As Kevin Drum found (from the Washington Monthly), from 1976 to 2004, the incumbent party's coloring alternated. As it happened, from 1976 through 1996, this meant that the Republicans were the blue ...
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What are the Republicans' arguments for blaming the Democrats for the shutdown?
Rather than trying to address the claim of who is to blame, I will focus on the part of the question asking for the spefic actions that were taken and give you timeline of events to let you decide for ...
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Is there evidence that the Republican Party leadership wants fewer people to vote?
"They had things—levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."
Donald Trump on Fox and Friends
“Just what America needs, ...
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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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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 do Republicans want to break up Facebook?
(Caveat: The Republican Party is nowhere near the monolith it works so hard to appear as.)
As the Republican party has fallen more and more in-line with Trumpism (which, really, predates Trump and ...
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Why aren't Republicans more focused on mobilizing a movement towards 'dethroning' Trump?
Because traditional Republicans can't credibly convert Trump supporters.
The popular narrative is that Donald Trump's election represents some sort of "whitelash" against Democrats, Obama ...
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Why do Republicans want to break up Facebook?
Republicans cannot just "use other platforms" because of the network effect. Everyone is already on Facebook, Twitter, et. al. So say die-hard Republicans all go to Parler. Now they're in ...
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Why couldn't Republicans who voted to repeal Obamacare so many times under Obama do it under a Republican president?
It's not that the Republicans couldn't pass the AHCA, but that they didn't want to.
It is difficult to just repeal the ACA, which is why the Republicans went from a repeal-only to a repeal-and-...
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Why did Wisconsin Republicans oppose postponing the April 7th election despite COVID-19 shutting down nearly all polling places?
Rural voters aren't afraid to go to the polls to keep a conservative state supreme court justice in power.
The April 2020 ballot does include the U.S. presidential primary, but that will have little ...
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Why did Wisconsin Republicans oppose postponing the April 7th election despite COVID-19 shutting down nearly all polling places?
Republicans prevented this change because at the core it is beneficial to their electoral prospects.
There are many layers to fully understanding this issue, but to address it in brief I think a few ...
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The reason behind the contradictory behavior of US political parties toward Islamic Republic of Iran
The issue is the mis-characterization of Obama as "very friendly".
The fact that a country signs a treaty with other does not mean that they are "friends" per se. Obama (together with 4 other parties)...
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Why does Donald Trump wield influence over Republican Congressmen & Senators?
Donald Trump's influence on the Republican Party remains very strong because the vast majority of Republican-leaning voters remain convinced that Donald Trump did not lose the election. (For example, ...
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Why was Liz Cheney removed from House Republican leadership?
I rather liked Byron York's piece, in the Washington examiner, on it
Cheney's current problems intensified after the first vote on her leadership, when she intensified her campaign against Trump. ...
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Is the Republican party obligated to renominate Trump for Presidency in 2020?
Gerald Ford came close to losing to Ronald Reagan in the Republican Party presidential primaries of 1976. For a variety of reasons it could be argued that's not precedent, but it certainly shows a ...
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Why are right-wing politicians in the US typically pro-Israel?
Americans on the Right tend to be Evangelical Christians. As Jerusalem is holy to Christians (as well as being central to several Christian prophecies), there is a decently broad base of Christians ...
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Why couldn't Republicans who voted to repeal Obamacare so many times under Obama do it under a Republican president?
@tim has given a good answer in terms of the specific vote. However it's also worth looking at the reason why the Republicans couldn't get behind a replacement.
The problem that the ...
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