'18 Midterms: Dems win House by largest midterm raw vote margin ever

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The Hill
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BREAKING: Maryland lawmakers have passed a veto-proof bill that would automatically register residents to vote if they get or renew their driver’s license or state ID, or sign up for health insurance or social services.


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Maryland passes automatic voter registration bill
Any Maryland resident who interacts with the state's Motor Vehicle Administration, health care exchange, or social services offices would be signed up to vote unless they decline.

 

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Democrats say Walker is dragging his feet because Republicans fear losing the seats. When Wisconsin held special elections in January, Democrats won a surprise victory in an area Trump carried by 17 percentage points.


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Deadline Nears For Elections Scott Walker Doesn't Want To Hold
Judges want Scott Walker to hold special elections for two Wisconsin state legislative seats the governor says he doesn't need to hold.…

 

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The Hill
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Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pushing the Supreme Court to set limits on partisan gerrymandering, saying he knows the court will make “the right decision,” adding: "but in the meantime let's all fight and make sure that we go and reverse this madness that's going on in America and get rid of gerrymandering once and for all.”


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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Let’s get rid of gerrymandering ‘once and for all’
The former California governor is longtime outspoken supporter of redistricting reform.

 

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Republicans are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in an effort to avoid another major Democratic upset in the upcoming special election to replace former GOP Rep. Trent Franks, a social conservative who resigned after allegedly asking a staffer to carry his child.


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GOP fears Dem upset in deep red Arizona district
President Trump won the district by 21 points.

 

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The Hill
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BREAKING: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will call for two special elections he previously refused to hold after suffering two legal defeats in his effort to delay a court-ordered deadline.


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Scott Walker agrees to set date for special elections after major defeat in court
Walker initially planned to appeal to the Supreme Court, but reversed his decision hours later.

 

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PBS NewsHour
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders was flat-out wrong in claiming the citizenship question had been regularly included in the Census Bureau’s decennial survey to all U.S. households in recent decades.


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AP Fact Check: What the Trump administration isn't saying about 2020 census
The decision to include the question in the 2020 census has stirred worry among opponents that it will intimidate immigrants, leading to an…

 

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The Hill
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BREAKING: Maryland lawmakers have passed a veto-proof bill that would automatically register residents to vote if they get or renew their driver’s license or state ID, or sign up for health insurance or social services.


THEHILL.COM

Maryland passes automatic voter registration bill
Any Maryland resident who interacts with the state's Motor Vehicle Administration, health care exchange, or social services offices would be signed up to vote unless they decline.

One of my friends is in the House of Delegates and was on the floor speaking about the bill, just saw him last night.

We'll see what Hogan does. Veto-ing the bill in an election year will give the Gov candidates some ammo to dent his popularity.

 

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One of my friends is in the House of Delegates and was on the floor speaking about the bill, just saw him last night.

We'll see what Hogan does. Veto-ing the bill in an election year will give the Gov candidates some ammo to dent his popularity.

 

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Stacey Dash Withdraws from Congressional Run, Regrets the System of 'Plantation Politics'

 

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The Hill
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Colorado’s GOP-controlled state Senate has voted against expelling a Republican senator accusing of sexually assaulting a former aide and the Senate president has declared the case closed.


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GOP-led Colorado Senate votes against expelling GOP lawmaker accusing of sexually assaulting aide
Sen. Randy Baumgardner was the second Colorado lawmaker this month to face the possibility of expulsion for sexual misconduct accusations.

 

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Paul Ryan’s Democratic challenger Randy Bryce has released his official immigration platform which calls for ICE to be abolished: “ICE has grown power hungry, sucking up more and more federal resources and directing them towards the deportation of children and families, who are otherwise completely law-abiding.”


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Dem running to unseat Paul Ryan calls for abolishing ICE
Randy Bryce has raised over $2 million since the beginning of 2018 from thousands of new donors.

 

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the Iron Stache.
love this dude.