With Republicans poised to retake control of one or both houses of Congress in the November midterm elections, Democrats are scrambling to to find a way to avert a debt-ceiling fight that threatens to effectively undo much of what the Biden administration has accomplished in its first two years. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent from […]
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Record Billionaire Cash Funneled Into Midterms
American billionaires have funneled more than $881 million into federal races in the 2022 midterm elections, according to a new report Thursday that prompted warnings about billionaires’ influence in politics. The report was compiled by the nonprofit organization Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF), which has a stated mission of educating and mobilizing the public “to […]
White suburban women are trending Republican
White suburban women, a key voter demographic heading into the midterm elections, have shifted significantly toward the Republican Party, according to new polling data. White women living in suburban areas currently favor the GOP by 15 percentage points, according to the latest Wall Street Journal poll. This marks a 27 percentage point shift away from […]
‘Democracy is under threat’ claims Biden
President Joe Biden has accused his predecessor Donald Trump and his supporters of undermining democracy, ahead of next week’s midterm elections. “Make no mistake, democracy is on the ballot for all of us,” Mr Biden, said, referring to threats by some Republicans candidates to refuse to accept the outcome should they lose. Republicans hit back, […]
Dems meddled in GOP primaries. Did it work?
Democrats took the unusual (but not unprecedented) step of meddling in a number of Republican primaries this year. The idea was to encourage GOP primary voters to pick far-right candidates whom Democrats could ultimately clobber in November. The effort was controversial from the start. The Republican candidates the Democrats were spending money to promote were […]
Buying guns in this state will be difficult if voters pass ballot measure
Oregon will ask voters in the coming days whether to significantly increase restrictions on guns. If passed, a ballot measure in that state would require people who want to buy a gun to pay a fee, take a safety course, submit fingerprints and pass a background check to obtain a permit. High-capacity magazines — those […]
House & Senate forecasts with less than 10 days to go
With ten days until the November 8 midterm elections, political forecasters and pollsters say Republicans appear to have a strong chance of retaking control of the House of Representatives. But in the race for control of the Senate, Democrats and Republicans appear locked in a much tighter contest. The polling analysis website FiveThirtyEight says Republicans […]
Democratic midterm lead now vapor
Polls shows Republicans gaining ground in the closing weeks of the 2022 midterm campaign, narrowing Democrats’ long-standing lead to just 2 percentage points — their slimmest to date. When asked which candidate they would vote for in their congressional district if the election were held today, 46% of registered voters now choose the Democrat; 44% […]
US recession forecast hits 100%
The US economy falling into recession within the next 12 months is a virtual certainty, according to the latest Bloomberg Economics forecast model released on Monday. The dire projection surfaced just weeks before national midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. Just one week ago, an embattled President Biden insisted a recession was unlikely […]
Latinos swing to GOP: ‘They don’t like socialists’
Democratic strategists spoke with Fox News Digital about a poll showing a massive shift by conservative Latinos from the Democratic Party to the GOP and said that crime, treating Latino voters as single-issue voters and the embrace of the far-left have played roles in the shift. According to polling from NBC News, Telemundo and the […]
Biden asked Opec to postpone oil cuts to Nov.
Saudi Arabia said Thursday that the U.S. had urged the kingdom to postpone a decision by OPEC and its allies — including Russia — to cut oil production by a month. Such a delay could have helped reduce the risk of a spike in gas prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections next month. A […]
Politically Biased Treatment at Work Is Increasing
Complaints of politically biased treatment at work have doubled since before the pandemic, according to new research by the Society for Human Resource Management. About a quarter of US employees say they’ve experienced biased treatment because of their political affiliations — either preferential dealings or undue negative actions on the basis of their political opinions […]