Dec 12, 2017 – I’ve created a follow-at-home model estimating the vote shares Jones and Moore need to exceed in each of Alabama’s 67 counties to win … Jones needs a robust GOP crossover vote (and a substantial write-in vote) from whites with a college degree, who make up roughly a … You really have to wait for a county to wrap up until you know what happened — Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) December 13, 2017And for this…

Dec 27, 2017 – They hope to capitalizing on bad polling to win seats. … That’s another good sign to let Hatch stay. … he needs to go.…

May 13, 2015 – But there was no one to around to rub my face in my own misery. … Social media seems to encourage blasting our basest feelings to everyone we know, and it’s caused some of us to totally mute our human … Liberals need to pipe down.…

May 12, 2015 – “I offered to have them bring up a bill later, do everything I can to give that a fair hearing because I have concerns sometimes too … Something that was made harder to do when Democrats decided to lump four other bills, along with the TPA vote.   … Until there is a path to get all four bills passed … we will, certainly most of us, will have to vote no.”…

May 11, 2015 – Tom Cotton's position, which compelled him to cast Thursday's lone dissenting vote. … A "best case scenario," politically speaking, is for the president to sign the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, for his administration … Congress to vote against the agreement -- along with a fair number of Democrats, in all likelihood.  …

May 29, 2015 – Does anyone believe Trump will sign up for the grueling tedium of a campaign season that involves sharing an attention pie with other … Simmering in even lower digits at the moment are names who will surely rise to claim some of the pie-slices higher up in the Qunnipiac … Santorum wisely said of Mitt Romney in 2012 that we are unwise to send up a nominee unfit to battle Obamacare because of Romneycare…

May 27, 2015 – or very important to their vote next year, a significantly higher percentage than for any other issue." … proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. … Obama's crippled economy is actually shrinking, even after trillions of dollars have been spent to prop it up.…

Jun 9, 2015 – We have to appear in the criminal court on June 11th to put in our plea. … I would love to speak to someone however due to my job (which is still on the line) I don’t know if it will make it better or worse … I am a state and county employee with the school system and I was made to sign a paper stating I would not speak with teachers parents…

Jun 5, 2015 – But will it have to sign up a junior partner? … Will it win sufficient seats to change the constitution and fulfill President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plan to turn his position from … , the HDP, to gain 10 percent of the vote, to win parliamentary representation, and then, one hopes, cleverly to obstruct Erdogan's…

Jun 4, 2015 – If the bills become law, 18 will make a Californian old enough to vote, to enlist in the military, to sign a contract, to buy a gun … It's also not old enough to drink. I am old enough to remember the mantra, "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote." … In 1971, responding to a system that allowed 18-year-olds to enlist in the military without letting them vote for who would run it,…

Jun 2, 2015 – sign if they chose to do so. … jail for up to 24 years and incur as much as $48,000 in fines. … to strip Bosworth of, to no avail.…

Jun 1, 2015 – Senate just approved a “fast track” to negotiate and vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, and some on the far … TPA would give Obama the ability to negotiate the TPP within just 90 days, and then present it to Congress to vote up or down without … to sign the TPP until they know the Senate and the House of Representatives can’t change it.…

Jun 19, 2015 – A vote for Trump is a vote to say that both parties have failed America and none of the current crop of candidates offers real hope … Is Trump wrong on this, or simply wrong to bring it up? … Obama to surrender Congress' right to amend trade treaties and sign on to a Trans-Pacific Partnership pact that looks like another…

Jun 18, 2015 – A procedural vote to start debate on trade promotion, or “fast-track,” authority for the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership passed 244 … This new renewed push doesn’t include the TAA provision, but promises a vote to extend the program, which expires in September in a … separate vote (via Roll Call): The House is set to vote Thursday on Trade Promotion Authority, with GOP leaders employing procedural…

Jun 16, 2015 – It should have been obvious to Obama, months before Friday's TPA vote, that he needed to get some significant number of Democratic … It passed by a 219-211 margin, with 28 Democratic votes -- a margin eerily similar to the TPA vote 13 years ago. … But since the Senate bill tied TPA and TAA together, there is no bill for the president to sign.…

Jun 14, 2015 – By a 28-11 vote, the Democratic-controlled state Senate became the first U.S. legislative body to vote to expand health care to immigrants … , authorize residents up to age 19 to enroll in Medi-Cal regardless of immigration status and allow some people 19 or older to enroll … To point out any negative consequences is to invite the left to brand you as heartless and racist.…

Jun 12, 2015 – and deliberately" trying to deny millions of Americans, mainly the poor and black, of their right to vote. … As if that would matter to an old pol in the habit of making up her own. … And it may take years for the facts to catch up with them.…

Jun 12, 2015 – But it is a good sign for American and Israeli diplomacy necessary to get anywhere. And that’s something. Very well. … a prelude to attacks. … The Turkish vote may bring some signs of hope if it means President Erdogan’s drive to turn Turkey into an Islamist regime is being…

Jun 12, 2015 – to debate and lowers the vote threshold in the Senate from 61 to 51. … The 11 international parties negotiating with Obama on TPP refuse to sign their dotted lines until Congress agrees to pre-agree to … Past free-trade pacts have failed to live up to their overhyped promises.…

Jun 11, 2015 – If you support raising taxes you have every right to your opinion. But you need to switch parties to the Democrat Party. … Your brand is lower taxes…you won with that brand in a landslide…so you decided to vote for the biggest tax increase in history? … Why didn't they say "I am proud to be running as a Republican to raise your taxes.…

Jun 10, 2015 – The House, which is also Republican-led, has yet to decide whether to take up the bill in June or wait until the fall.   … fines of up to $10,000 and prison sentences of up to three and a half years.   … It, too, passed along party lines: 242 to 184.…

Jun 27, 2015 – to be vaccinated against the disease. … Luther Cobb, president of the California Medical Assn., hailed Thursday's vote by the state Assembly as key to keeping deadly but preventable … Whooping cough is especially important to vaccinate against in schoolchildren to avoid passing on the illness to infants or very young…

Jun 25, 2015 – Lois Wolk and Bill Monning, co-sponsors of the bill, had to pull a scheduled vote in the Assembly Health Committee and delay it until … to accommodate transgender elementary school students -- well, that doesn't add up. … On one side stand Californians who want to be able to kill themselves with the help of a doctor.…

Jun 25, 2015 – Never ones to let a good crisis go to waste, Democrats made overtures on gun control. … as much a mystery to me as why anyone would want to fly it in the first place. … Perhaps each state’s Democratic Party headquarters could offer up some space and the artifacts can be rotated to a new state annually…

Jun 24, 2015 – The measure to strengthen Obama's hand in global trade talks cleared the Senate on a vote of 60-38, and will go to the White House … It would then go to the House, where a final vote was expected on Thursday. … Up next, the vote on the actual trade agreement.…