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As Republicans’ mid-decade gerrymandering efforts push our increasingly fraught democracy through its latest stress test, it raises the very real question: do desperate times require desperate measures in response — as California voters decided by passing a gerrymandering ballot proposal this November?
The Republican Party is attempting to build higher fences around a smaller group of voters
With close to a third of lawmakers being appointed to office instead of elected by voters, the Colorado General Assembly likely holds a record that few state legislatures would want.
A Colorado Politics analysis showed that of 24 out of the 28 current state lawmakers appointed by vacancy committees, fewer than 40 party insiders on average picked the individuals who would represent the people at the state Capitol, instead of the 89,000 residents of a House district or the 165,000 people who live in a Senate’s political boundary.
By Mark McKinnon and Kent Thiry If you follow the news, browse social media, or look at any number of the unwanted emails and text messages routinely sent out by politicians and activists, you’d think that America is irreconcilably divided.
The state’s congressional redistricting illustrates how gerrymandering hollows out the political center and strengthens the fringe, experts say. It also helps explain Kevin McCarthy’s downfall.
On the whole, the industry in the U.S. from 1999 – 2019 prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths, greatly expanded the no. of clinics to improve patient access, increased one-year survival rates and reduced hospitalizations for many patients.
As the country turns its focus to the next presidential election, there is a real possibility that 2024 could offer voters the choice of an historically unpopular incumbent vs. an historically corrupt and twice-indicted opponent.
That shouldn’t inspire confidence in our political system — and it doesn’t have to be that way.
As the country turns its focus to the next presidential election, there is a real possibility that 2024 could offer voters the choice of an historically unpopular incumbent vs. an historically corrupt and twice-indicted opponent. That shouldn’t inspire confidence in
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