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Donald Trump releases 7-point health care reform plan
Since March of 2010, the American people have had to suffer under the incredible economic burden of the Affordable Care Act—Obamacare.
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Watch Donald Trump Endorse Mitt Romney for GOP Presidential Candidate in 2012
Watch Mitt's comments.
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Mitt Romney and the Probably Doomed Revolt Against Donald Trump
What Romney’s speech actually shows is that, for all its righteous anger, the anti-Trump backlash is unlikely to survive for long.
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Rivals Rip Trump but Promise Support if He is the Nominee
Chief rivals to U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump assailed him for shifting positions on the issues at a debate, but said in the end they would reluctantly support him if he were their party's nominee.
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Are Presidential Candidates Undermining Anti-Bullying Campaigns?
If Trump were in the fifth grade, he would have been kicked out of school long ago.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Special Districts (HBO)
Special districts spend more public money than all city governments combined. That's odd considering most of us don't know they exist.
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Donald Trump and the 'X-Rated' Election
In a 2016 presidential election filled with insults, sexual innuendo and bizarre behaviour, how do you explain politics to children?
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Should Therapists Analyze Presidential Candidates?
To offer a diagnosis for someone we've never met - let alone offer treatment recommendations - is fraught both ethically and scientifically.
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When American Voters Had 2 Choices: Whig or Loco Foco
This fascinating electoral map from 1840 documents a chaotic time in American politics.
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The Decorous Demise of the ‘Establishment’
What is the ‘‘establishment’’ other than one of those bloviation-chamber words that political types toss around to describe something that might not actually exist in the real world?
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Why voting in 2016 could be nearly impossible for some Americans
This year’s primaries are a testing ground for voter ID laws.
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Hillary Clinton Wants to Regulate Fracking, but Still Accepts a Lot of Fracking Money
Hillary Clinton has a fundraising lunch today hosted by a partner at KKR, which is heavily invested in fracking.
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Bernie Sanders: 'Stay Tuned ... We Can Win This Thing'
Sanders has a steep hill to climb to win enough delegates in the presidential primary. But he doesn't seem deterred, telling NPR, "I am used to climbing steep hills."
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The Geography of Trumpism
To see what conditions prime a place to support Mr. Trump for the presidency, we compared hundreds of demographic and economic variables from census data, along with results from past elections, with this year’s results in the 23 states that have held primaries and caucuses. We examined what factors predict a high level of Trump support relative to the total number of registered voters.
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How Much Does it Take to Win the Presidency?
A look at how much every vote is worth
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The Last Time an Outsider Crashed the GOP
Trump is not the first media-savvy outsider to win the GOP nomination.
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North Carolina’s Voter ID Law Could Block 218,000 Registered Voters From the Polls
The controversial restriction takes effect for the first time in the March 15 primary.
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Donald Trump’s message is violent to its core
Violence is scary. But violence as a political ideology is terrifying.
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Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back
A plea to presidential candidates: Stop talking about bringing manufacturing jobs back from China. In fact, talk a lot less about manufacturing, period.
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The Top-Trending Words on MerriamWebster.com Will Warm Your Politics-Loving Heart
So America is curious about some things.
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