WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are settling in for what they hope is a long run in the majority, but President-elect Donald J. Trump doesn’t want them to get too comfortable.Source: As Trump Embraces Term Limits, Allies in Congress Pull Away...
The left’s fixation with the Koch brothers is akin to CNN’s obsession with the Malaysian Airlines disappearance. It’s 24/7 speculation and conspiracy theories mixed with endless repetition.Source: Democrats funded by billionaires complain about Republicans funded by billionaires...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Republican Assemblyman Eric Linder has been defeated by Democratic challenger Sabrina Cervantes, giving the Democrats a supermajority in the California Assembly. Linder was one of at least two GOP incumbents who lost re-election after last week’s election.Source: Republican Assemblyman’s Defeat Gives California Democrats A Supermajority...
The 2000 election left a Democratic Party that was simultaneously angry, dispirited and divided.Source: The God That Failed...
Although full spending reports haven’t been submitted, assuming both candidates spent all that they raised, as at Oct 28 this year, Clinton’s war chest totalled an astronomical US$687 million (RM3 billion), more than double Trump’s US$307 million.Source: Daily Media Links: Trump team talks of setting up political arm, Out-of-state cash in hot races does little to help Dems, and more…...
At the Philadelphia Convention, the creation of the Electoral College mechanism was a last minute solution to the knotty problem of how to select a president. Selection by Congress, as some proposed, was seen as likely to make the president too dependent on Congress.Source: Richard Briffault: The “faithless” elector...
But a closer look at the report reveals that it's not entirely clear how to estimate the total number of uncounted ballots. Most notably, several counties have not updated their official count since the middle of last week.Source: Election officials across California still face as many as 4 million uncounted ballots...
Retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) filed legislation Tuesday to abolish the Electoral College in light of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote but still losing the election.Source: California Sen. Barbara Boxer files long shot bill to scrap the Electoral College system...
The news, as always, came via Twitter. Mitt Romney, the face — and voice — of the resistance to Donald Trump in the Republican primary and the general election will huddle with the president-elect over the weekend to talk about possibly serving as the nation's top diplomat.Source: Donald Trump’s flirtation with Mitt Romney is big-league smart...
[Commentary] I’ve been thinking about what Trump’s unlikely rise and even more unlikely victory (and the way he got there) tells us about the future of TV. The establishment got beat up pretty bad (again) on multiple levels, and all of us who work in media need to start paying closer attention.Source: The Decline and Fall of Establishment Media...
