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Information is starting to emerge about what the House is going to try to do in the next few weeks. Nothing is certain, especially the details, but the broad outline is fairly clear now. What's John Boehner up to? Remember,...
A good point from Dave Hopkins: Will be hard for GOP leaders to blame Dems if immig reform falls apart in part b/c plenty of conservatives will take credit for killing it. The trick will be threading the needle somehow,...
To what extent are Democrats inherently disadvantaged in congressional elections because of where they live? This was a hot topic of conversation just after the 2012 congressional elections, when the Democrats won a majority of the popular vote but a...
There’s been ample excellent coverage of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Shelby County vs. Holder, which declared a key section of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. By rejecting the VRA’s formula for determining which states and jurisdictions are subject...
Lizza identified this member only as “a freshman Democrat in a tough race.” More on the demands of “call time” is in this HuffPo piece by Ryan Grim and Sabrina Siddiqui. And here’s Ezra Klein’s Storify with these tweets....