Women are more Democratic than men, and younger voters are more Democratic than older ones.
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But more college should be part of a new and more democratic education that reflects a new and more democratic workplace.
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Stay tuned to House Party as every week we monitor developments across the country, which includes the now more democratic (and more Democratic) Keystone State.
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Again, this doesn't look like a realignment, in the sense that the more Democratic counties in 2012 still produced the more Democratic votes in 2016.
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Lyrical calls for a more democratic and inclusive society—such as Lamar's pleas for freedom on "Institutionalized"—are reflected in more democratic and inclusive instrumentation.
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Having more democratic control over society's resources would be helpful, and having more democratic control over a company's resources would be beneficial for that company as well.
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This is one of so many election reforms — like automatic registration, moving Election Day to a holiday and voting by mail — that would make elections more democratic and, Republicans fear, more Democratic.
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Indeed, the bill got more Democratic votes than Republican ones.
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Pichai says Google's approach is to make privacy more democratic.
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More and more Democratic senators stepped forward to ask questions.
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And more Democratic senators are publicly endorsing such a system.
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Nevertheless, the EU is also overdue some more democratic representation.
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And the key to a more democratic and prosperous Myanmar.
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The false assumption was that women were becoming more Democratic.
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Yet Vargas Llosa is the more daring, more democratic writer.
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More democratic participation won't solve all of the country's problems.
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Very few voters will not select a more democratic system.
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Mica's district became more Democratic as a result of redistricting.
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The atmosphere is much more democratic and accessible to all.
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A clairvoyant capybara would make for a more democratic leader.
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So I thought I could make a more democratic piece . . .
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He understood a more democratic world meant a safer America.
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Hong Kongers have far more democratic rights than other Chinese citizens.
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"No more Democratic lottery," Trump said in a follow-up tweet.
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If you'd like the decision to be more democratic, tell them.
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Just about everyone agrees that actual primary elections are more democratic.
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White men also voted slightly more Democratic than usual in 2018.
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Younger voters, however, tend to lean more Democratic than older voters.
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They were furious with Schumer for not rallying more Democratic opposition.
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More Democratic women have been nominated in 27 than ever before.
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Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins's more democratic version has no place for stars.
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Chipotle, on the other hand, was much more democratic, she said.
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The result will be a smarter, cleaner, and more democratic grid.
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They simply make their countries look more democratic than they are.
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Tennessee has generally moved away from its more Democratic-friendly past.
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They're often seen as more democratic, cooperative, and loyal than men.
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In Nevada, more Democratic white voters means a less diverse Democratic electorate.
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Hopefully, a more democratic and more progressive era will arise on Westeros.
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Q: Does Gorbachev have much hope of seeing a more democratic government?
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That, however, does not mean that the process will be more democratic.
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The world has grown far more democratic since the second world war.
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Some even talked about moving to a more democratic system of government.
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Latinos tend to vote more Democratic than the population as a whole.
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All of which might be acceptable if voters had more democratic control.
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The wheel of monarchy broken and a new more democratic system established.
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Under even marginally more democratic conditions, Trump wouldn't have stood a chance.
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Today, there's no indication that the state is becoming any more Democratic.
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And mobilizing more Democratic voters is the key to the 2020 election.
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He said he won't return to China until it becomes more democratic.
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John Mica's seat, which has become more Democratic after it was redrawn.
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The more Democratic a congressional district is, the more delegates it has.
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"Wellness in the air, in many instances, is more democratic," she said.
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Florida, though, never voted more Democratic than the nation as a whole.
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The district also includes some more Democratic areas like Michigan State University.
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But on June 353, the idea is different, and perhaps more democratic.
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To be sure, Niger is still inching toward a more democratic political system.
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In the end, Pompeo received even more Democratic votes, seven, than Tillerson had.
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It slowly grew more democratic and added more patches to its imperial map.
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Twitter and other social media have made the world a more democratic place.
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He predicted that more Democratic critics of Pelosi would join him and flip.
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Progressives wanted a state that would be simultaneously more technocratic and more democratic.
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Redistricting made it more Democratic, easing the way for Crist to prevail. Rep.
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And I felt it was more democratic to try to please the audience.
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The solution may not be a court packed with two more Democratic appointees.
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Reform Jewish Americans are even more Democratic leaning than the average Jewish American.
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The Ways and Means Committee rejected several more Democratic amendments along party lines.
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After each speech, he has been asked to speak at more Democratic functions.
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In more Democratic districts, candidates supported by Justice Democrats came up disappointingly short.
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So both parties decided to reform their systems to make them more democratic.
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It's more democratic than an art dealer saying I value this at £1 million.
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There's another key reason the DGA wants to help get more Democratic governors elected.
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Even among people of the same race and schooling, urbanites are more Democratic-leaning.
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In Ghana, which is more democratic, leaders struggle to think beyond the next election.
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I know it's a Republican convention, but it's doesn't get more democratic than that.
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But the more democratic Hong Kong becomes, the angrier a heavy-handed Beijing gets.
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It's not just that union members and their families tend to vote more Democratic.
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They'll be working with state legislatures with more Democratic legislators than in past years.
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What if you need more democratic accountability somewhere or the law won't be enforced?
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Yes, the primary process has become much more democratic over the last two generations.
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Meanwhile, supporters remain numerous and convinced that the government has never been more democratic.
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There are many more Democratic women -- 16 -- in the Senate than Republican women -- five.
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Scanlon said more Democratic lawmakers would likely volunteer to take part in the reading.
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Put another way, the higher the level of turnout, the more Democratic the area.
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Worker representatives on corporate boards would make the decision-making process far more democratic.
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"And if you're an inclusive brand — there's nothing more democratic to me than inclusion."
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Because the whole process of film-making has become easier, cheaper and more democratic.
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Everyone else – whites with a bachelor's degree and non-whites – is becoming more Democratic.
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Part of making Valentino a touch more democratic was his renewed focus on daytime.
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There is no doubt that a more democratic Iranian government is to be desired.
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Would it be more democratic if the winner in only 20 states became president?
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He said he had never been a part of a more democratic locker room.
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Barcelona has led the way in proposing a more democratic approach to data governance.
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"There is most likely no more democratic fishing spot in America," our writer observed.
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Today's front page is the result of a far more democratic and organic process.
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But Medicaid recipients, who also stand to lose under the law, lean more Democratic.
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An hour later, Pelosi and several more Democratic lawmakers announced a deal on USMCA.
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And more Democratic candidates will now challenge Republicans for House seats next year; 22.
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More Democratic primary voters say they are enthusiastic about her than any other Democrat.
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Working-class whites outside the South actually seemed to be growing slightly more Democratic.
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But it's important to note that nonvoters are only slightly more Democratic than voters.
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But they also stressed that they are counting on more democratic reforms and fighting corruption.
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I&aposm not sure why more Democratic leaders are not speaking up and condemning this.
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The filibuster change opened the door to three more Democratic appointees on that influential court.
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But in the wake of Parkland, more Democratic candidates have been calling for gun control.
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Grassroots organizations are multiplying, and more Democratic women are running for office than ever before.
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What's changed is that more Democratic lawmakers are now backing his and other progressives' bills.
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It's time we recognize this excuse for what it is: one more Democratic big lie.
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That's a lot more Democratic votes in an election when they're going to lose seats!
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A more democratic aspect of the campaign is its advertising, created by the agency BBDO.
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I have to say that the Italian Constitutional Court is far more democratic than ours.
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Webster decided to run in another congressional district after redistricting made his seat more Democratic.
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We'd benefit from a more democratic process, clearer rules for the internet, and new institutions.
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It opens it up to a much more democratic way of citizens investing in businesses.
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This is one of the more democratic primary processes that our country has seen recently.
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From the perspective of a ruling party, nothing is more democratic than to accept this.
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Lawmakers should move fast to make the state's politics fairer, more honest and more democratic.
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The project, she says, is partly about making art feel less rarefied and more democratic.
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Three more Democratic debates are scheduled in February, in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
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It needs to become more democratic, and more protective of those left behind by globalization.
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It's certainly a lot more Democratic than you'd expect for such a heavy Trump state.
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Erdogan said the executive presidency wpuld make government more efficient, more secure and more democratic.
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The conceit of a direct listing is that it's more democratic, very logical, very internet.
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Is it more democratic to impose the will of a minority, however relevant, upon all?
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But this cycle, many more Democratic women ran and won across state legislatures than Republican women.
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The work is more dynamic, and indeed more democratic, when we can experience it this way.
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The internet — social media in particular — has made the beauty industry more democratic than ever before.
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Liberalism could be more democratic or less democratic: more for everyone, or more for a few.
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Personalized and localized site governance might prove more democratic than treating Facebook as one giant country.
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But if lifting sanctions was a reward for being more democratic, has Myanmar truly earned it?
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EISEN: But is it going to be this more democratic Yeezy, where everyone can get it?
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It's important for investors to get more democratic access to healthy, small, growing private, risky companies.
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With early voting now over, (18,000) more Democratic-registered voters turned out than Republican-registered voters.
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For anti-monopolists, it's a chance to reshape tech into something more democratic and less destructive.
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In Part II, I argued that proportional representation and a shorter calendar would be more democratic.
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Helping the people of Venezuela is the first step toward a safer, more democratic Latin America.
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After court-ordered redistricting remade the House district boundaries, the new district became slightly more Democratic.
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But just as many have rallied behind candidates who want a more equal, more democratic economy.
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The district became more Democratic after court-ordered redistricting and includes Crist's hometown of St. Petersburg.
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There was more Democratic support for reform — but there was a lot of Republican support too.
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The good news is that there are other income streams that are a lot more democratic.
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They put the Constitution itself to a far more democratic vote than had been seen before.
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It is this asymmetric cracking and packing that yields many more Democratic than Republican wasted votes.
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Republicans continue to find countless ways to block efforts to make voting fairer and more democratic.
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That alone will help more Democratic officials get elected and maybe even in the White House.
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The YouTubers Union's main demands are related to making the service more democratic for smaller creators.
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Kihuen's seat, which has been trending more Democratic, is considered a top priority for both parties.
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Still, there are more Democratic women running in Solid Republican districts than in Solid Democratic districts.
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That world might be more democratic (in some ways), but it would hardly be more just.
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That is why more Democratic members of the House of Representatives are now talking about impeachment.
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Compared to this poll, our sample leans about 13 points more Democratic than the general population.
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Even more Democratic totals will come Monday when candidates file reports with the Federal Election Commission.
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At the rambling and far-reaching session, Trump appeared to embrace more Democratic proposals than Republican.
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The arrangement attracted more Democratic defectors in time — if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, basically.
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There's one other factor at play: Nevada's white voters are slightly more Democratic than white voters nationwide.
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More and more Democratic politicians are coming out in favor of an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
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That's meant that considerably more Democratic than Republican voters typically stay home in the off-year election.
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You might reasonably suppose that the more democratic a country's institutions, the less inequality it should support.
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Officials were expecting at least 15% more Democratic voters than eight years ago when 37,583 Democrats voted.
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The firm's research indicates the Twitterverse tends to skew younger and more Democratic than the general public.
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Earlier this year, he launched the pan-European DiEM25 to make European institutions more democratic and transparent.
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"I think that podcasting has the potential to be more democratic than most mainstream media," Luse says.
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The group in favor of increasing the block size has laid out a more democratic path forward.
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Either way, the filibuster would risk causing the loss of even more Democratic Senate seats in 2018.
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" As Derek Thompson recently wrote in The Atlantic , "Corporations are becoming more democratic than democratic governance itself.
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Many argue that a greater dependence on such donors would make American politics more democratic and representative.
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One thing is certain: Britain's departure from the European Union will not make the union more democratic.
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Their rival captured a majority of the independent vote, and more Democratic women backed Sanders to boot.
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In the coming months, we will likely see even more Democratic candidates announce a run for president.
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In the three counties that became more Democratic, more than 85033 percent of residents hold a degree.
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Court-ordered redistricting had made Forbes's previous district more Democratic, making his odds of reelection much tougher.
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All of them are in more Democratic districts than the typical special elections of 2017 and 2018.
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Kerry's career thus played out in a more democratic world than the one he was raised in.
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Its politics had both democratic and authoritarian elements, though on balance those were more democratic than authoritarian.
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The rate of job growth in Republican-leaning regions is outstripping the rate in more Democratic areas.
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Increased competition, though, could help stir interest in the races and make these Democratic races more democratic.
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In the best-case scenario, proponents say, coin offerings are far more democratic than what came before.
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David Jolly (R-Fla.) in the 13th District, which had become more Democratic thanks to redrawn boundaries.
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What goes into the political calculus of defeating a judicial nominee or losing more Democratic Senate seats?
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Former army officer Abiy has since replaced him, promising "a new political beginning" including more democratic rights.
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As a Christian and a Democrat, I hope to see more Democratic candidates leaning into their faith.
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Still, there are slightly more Democratic women running in Solid Republican districts than in Solid Democratic districts.
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Sometimes they consciously shift to a more Democratic flavor as they may be seen as too conservative.
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Iranians have expressed their aspirations for a more democratic and accountable government many times over the years.
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Congressional polls that poll likely voters, or those who are enthusiastic about voting, are much more Democratic.
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Uber's aim was to make UberX more democratic, allowing drivers with cheaper cars to become Uber drivers.
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Chaos in Grant Park was the result, forcing both parties to change their rules and become more democratic.
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"In 2015, more Democratic voters identified as liberals (42%) than as moderates (38%) or conservatives (17%)," reported Pew.
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If we are going to be the party that owns the future, we must become more democratic today.
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Brazil's voter reform, though, seems to have been reasonably successful at making for more democratic and competitive elections.
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The biggest reason more Democratic politicians have soured on charter schools and vouchers seems to be campaign money.
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As a bonus, what we would do to get there would make the system more democratic, not less.
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Costello, in announcing his retirement in March, acknowledged that his redrawn, more Democratic-leaning district was a factor.
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By any measure, Trump has far more democratic legitimacy as the Republican nominee than any of his rivals.
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She will wield more authority than the president—her ally, Htin Kyaw—in the new, more democratic, government.
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That might well send conservative Republicans scurrying to the exits, requiring more Democratic participation and increasing Democratic leverage.
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The more Democratic voters identify as liberal — and the more liberal they are — the less they support Israel.
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He could decide to run for reelection even though court-ordered redistricting made his seat more Democratic-leaning.
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Nationally, independent men are one of the few groups of men that appear to be moving more Democratic.
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It could also suggest that the more Democratic voters learn about Gabbard, the less appealing they find her.
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In recent years many African nations that had moved toward instituting more democratic principles have started shedding them.
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Still, more Democratic activists from Iowa interviewed say they are open to considering Harris than any other candidate.
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The ever-increasing number of online publications and social media platforms offers more democratic access to public conversation.
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As a proudly efficient (fast) eater, I find that sharing inevitably results in a more democratic meal pace.
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So that has gone hand-in-hand — particularly with the rising Asian-American population — to voting more Democratic.
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Shift in margin from 103 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 30 10 10 30 50 pct.
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Some of the country's political processes, like ballot referendums, are more democratic than others, like the Electoral College.
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"It was a monarchy, and I think perhaps it will be a slightly more democratic operation," Buruma said.
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When every voter receives — and a lot more cast — a ballot, the more democratic we make our society.
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The Electoral College is essentially an undemocratic system that's been jury-rigged to make it somewhat more democratic.
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Hong Kong has, in fact, become more democratic in the 20 years since the end of British rule.
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Three more Democratic electors, in Colorado, Maine and Minnesota, tried to vote for candidates other than Mrs. Clinton.
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Bernie Sanders captured a majority of the independent vote, and more Democratic women backed Sanders than they expected.
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Three more Democratic electors — in Colorado, Maine and Minnesota — tried to vote for candidates other than Mrs. Clinton.
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Diverse representation makes our nation more democratic, in that our political leaders better reflect the communities they represent.
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"I have tried to urge the Chinese to adopt more democratic, with a small 'd,' policies," he said.
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"When China becomes more democratic and respects the rule of law, this could be a precedent," he said.
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The younger Cubans are drawn more toward domestic policy than foreign, and are leaning more Democratic and independent.
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Hasen said he expects more Democratic-led legislatures to engage in the practice in light of the ruling.
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He called for the world to isolate Maduro more aggressively until it takes steps to become more democratic.
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It is an ever-constant thing, and it's going to seem a little more Democratic this time around.
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That is in part reflected by the fact that far more Democratic women candidates are running than Republicans.
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More and more Democratic politicians have embraced such causes as &aposMedicare for all&apos and a federal jobs guarantee.
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Three days later, thousands of grieving students marched through Beijing, calling for a more democratic government in Hu's honor.
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The traditional "shoebox" design has good seats and bad seats, but the more democratic "vineyard" has no "best" seats.
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Still, Georgia is becoming more Democratic because of changing demographics, particularly in the Atlanta area, according to political experts.
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You like to think that the process would be much more democratic and your voice would be more represented.
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In 2013, the CNRP nearly defeated the CPP, an outcome that had raised hopes for a more democratic system.
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It's a brave new future we face, but technology will make our lives easier, more democratic, and more interesting.
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"We need more democratic models of company oversight with a much stronger role for the workforce," said Luke Hildyard.
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In 2012, more Democratic-affiliated voters cast early ballots than Republicans in Florida, Virginia, Iowa, North Carolina and Nevada.
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The solution to democratic fatigue syndrome is to make elections more democratic, not to get rid of them altogether.
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The decision is not a vote from executives or judges who are subject-matter experts, but is more democratic.
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Still, it was clear that more Democratic men in federal office accused of sexual misconduct were resigning than Republicans.
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A party that tries to see through their perversities might well be more democratic, but that's a tough sell.
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Even in the rare year women voted Republican, like 2010, they were still six points more Democratic than men.
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When the internet first took off, the hope was that it would make the world a more democratic place.
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That makes things more democratic: "No one, wherever in the world, need be behind the times," says Mr Fontaine.
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Dispensing with this antiquated system can be viewed as part of an overall mission to foster more democratic equality.
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They did vote more Democratic in 2018 than in 2016, but around the same as they voted in 2012.
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A return to economic mobility for all will lead to more assimilation for immigrants and make America more democratic.
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The prospect of fusing her country club-inflected aesthetic with something a bit more democratic was daunting at first.
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Shift in margin from 2012 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 30 503 10 30 50 pct. pts.
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Shift in margin from 2012 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 153 30 10 10 30 50 pct. pts.
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Shift in margin from 250 to 20 More Democratic More Republican 250 215 22 262 383 238 pct. pts.
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Friend passes will make Raya more democratic, Mr. Gendelman said, a point that is directionally if not factually correct.
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Whitman cultivated a more democratic persona and preferred popular songs, which he called "heart" — as opposed to "art" — music.
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More Democratic state legislative seats were lost during Mr. Obama's presidency than under any other president in modern history.
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Africa is, right now, richer, healthier, safer, more peaceful, better educated, and more democratic than anytime in modern history.
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Some observers supported the move, arguing that making political ads available to public dissection was more democratic than censorship.
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All over the world political regimes are adjusting, becoming either a little more authoritarian or a little more democratic.
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Through greater accessibility and greater expression of voter preference, ranked-choice primaries are more democratic than either traditional option.
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From these royal lineages to the more democratic-spirited creations of today's artisans, handmade blossoms remain a proud tradition.
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Nationally and in swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, there are more Democratic registered voters than Republican.
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The "50-vote Senate" might seem more democratic than the normal Senate, since a majority can enact its priorities.
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Comparing Senate candidates is more difficult, since many more Democratic incumbents than Republicans find themselves in difficult reelection fights.
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Obama's encouraging words for those protesters bolstered them as they eventually succeeded in carrying out a more democratic election.
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More Democratic 29.1 candidates are explicitly campaigning on gun control as an issue they believe can win them elections.
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He thinks Low's proposed amendment to lower the voting age is simply an effort to get more Democratic votes.
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Sansa and Tyrion will devise a more democratic system of government, where each of the Seven Kingdoms are ruled individually.
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Some senior U.S. officials still believe Suu Kyi remains the best hope for a more democratic Myanmar, one official said.
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Perhaps, like previous generations of Asian tigers, Bangladesh will endure a spell of autocracy before its politics become more democratic.
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New Jersey's Seventh District: The Seventh is another northern suburban swing district — one that's slightly more Democratic than those above.
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" After the new congressional maps, "it is now 26 percentage points more Democratic-leaning than the country as a whole.
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The painful and slow transition toward a more democratic government began in the 1970s, with several setbacks along the way.
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A lot of downstream effects will come from this, including in more democratic countries, and none of them are good.
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Because of the protests, more Democratic candidates are talking about gun control ahead of the midterms in November than usual.
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He talks cleverly about replacing a traditional top-down bureaucratic version of socialism with a more democratic, bottom-up version.
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As of October 11, more Democratic-affiliated voters have cast early ballots in Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin.
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It's an obsession, and zines are a direct manifestation of that obsession in a much more democratic way than photobooks.
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With lofty goals like ending mass incarceration, healthcare for all, and reforming our electoral system to make it more democratic.
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The network is set to host a town hall this Sunday night with three more Democratic presidential hopefuls — former Rep.
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We need more Democratic governors to protect women's health, LGBT rights, civil rights, health care and workers' right to organize.
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Employee trusts should only be one arrow in the quiver of those fighting for a more democratic and responsive economy.
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In general, the archiving of women's achievements, even in the more democratic online world, receives morbidly scarce attention and funding.
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Nearly 20,000 more Democratic votes were cast, and Patrick Morrisey, the Republican winner, didn't even get 25% of the vote.
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And while that wouldn't make it exactly cheap to travel into space, it might make things a bit more democratic.
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But more turnout means a more democratic society, so it's easy to see the positive impact of Instagram efforts here.
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Although the traditional military-vet candidate is Republican (think John McCain), more Democratic veterans, especially women, are running -- and winning.
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The Orlando-area district had become more Democratic after its boundaries were redrawn, making party operatives hopeful for a pickup.
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With a growth rate second only to Nevada's, Arizona is expanding its political clout and poised to become more Democratic.
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America's hunting culture was considered far more democratic than hunting in Britain, where a lot of hunting tradition comes from.
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But isn't it possible that even that model could have used a step forward, once again, toward something more democratic?
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If Trump follows suit, he will appoint one more Republican commissioner and one more Democratic commissioner to serve the agency.
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But a shift had occurred; the autocratic leader had been replaced by a more democratic government led by Lenin Moreno.
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Some birth activists and nonprofits are working to change that, and to make postpartum doula care more democratic and widespread.
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State Democrats have taken some incremental steps to make the Iowa caucuses more democratic than they've been in the past.
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Of the 13 characteristics tested, more Democratic primary voters said "decades of political experience" is more important than any other.
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As they organized, they were hearing more and more Democratic grumbling about "Bernie bros" and the tenor of Sanders organizers.
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The Hong Kong government and Beijing, however, show little willingness to give into the demands, especially for more democratic rights.
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Of course, this raises an important question: Did the last big change in voting age make our society more democratic?
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The Virginia pool is likely to be more diverse in its political affiliations, though probably still more Democratic than Republican.
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Protect users of information The new media have made the world smaller, more connected, and in some cases more democratic.
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It's the flip side of the Rust Belt ... whites with college degrees that cluster in suburbs are becoming more Democratic.
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Even so, the funeral also became a rallying point for people who embraced his hope for a more democratic China.
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The real push for the presidency to be more democratic — more responsive — came around the turn of the 20th century.
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When the nomination math looked bad for him, he made populist appeals claiming that the Democratic Party should be more democratic.
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As time passes, however, more Democratic appointees will roll off the bench, so the Trump impact on the judiciary will grow.
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Amazing stat: 78% of Democratic-leaning seats got even more Democratic, and 65% of GOP-leaning seats got even more Republican.
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Second, despite its demographics, the entire district as a whole shifted more Democratic, which bodes well for the midterms in November.
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As this year's campaign for president has rolled on, younger Americans have tilted more Democratic generally, according to the IOP's surveys.
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McCarthy pitched it as more democratic, more transparent, and better for Silicon Valley — even if it's worse for Wall Street insiders.
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A failed uprising which began in Bahrain in 2011 was largely focused on gaining more democratic rights for the country's Shi'ites.
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I also believe that blockchain tech will one day play a role in facilitating more democratic access to the capital markets.
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"Myanmar's response to this crisis is critical to determining the success of its transition to a more democratic society," Tillerson said.
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Besides, the time for such opposition has largely passed, and the churches that offered it have not themselves become more democratic.
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Small blue-ribbon judging panels gave way to the group's 20,000 members voting on key winners, rendering the awards more democratic.
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Among those speech-watchers interviewed tonight, 211% consider themselves Democrats, 24% Republicans, a more Democratic tilt than Americans as a whole.
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In addition to confirming Pai, there are still spots for Trump to tap another Republican commissioner and one more Democratic commissioner.
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Bayik describes the results as reflecting "the true will of the Turkish people" and a move towards a more democratic republic.
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Yet there is also some good news for ordinary folk: in at least one respect private investing is becoming more democratic.
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When Mubarak was finally toppled, millions of Egyptians across the country celebrated, believing a more democratic future was on the horizon.
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In the end, that meant more Democratic electors defected than Republicans, despite a coordinated effort by some to block his victory.
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So there's more nuance to it, but it's more democratic in a simple way — why not just let the people decide?
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In fact, a contested convention would not only be democratic enough, it would be more democratic than what we have now.
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The newest generation of Cuban voters is far more Democratic than earlier generations, who came of age in the Cold War.
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Nolan's candidacy had effectively boxed out the Democratic field, so it's likely that more Democratic candidates will now enter the race.
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One reason for this shift is a growing sense that China is not becoming more democratic, contrary to what many hoped.
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It's no Apple TV, but in many ways, it's better thanks to Roku's more democratic method for dealing with content options.
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Yes, party nomination procedures have generally grown more democratic with time, with voters given a more direct say in the process.
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No voting method is perfect, but this proposal is definitely a more democratic alternative than the current winner-take-all approach.
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In other words, the Ukrainian people themselves are committed to the reforms that can make Ukraine more democratic, stable and prosperous.
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Such a system, he argues, would produce more democratic outcomes than the current one, which gives outsize influence to early states.
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It's not enough for a brand to create a single definition of luxury — it has to be more democratic than that.
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Over the next few years, more Democratic senators joined the group, and the Republicans have kept control of the legislative agenda.
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These shifts point toward larger changes in the once staunchly Republican Orange County, which is today leaning more Democratic and independent.
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In today's political landscape, where Republicans hold total control of the government in 26 states, this means electing more Democratic governors.
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New Jersey, Washington State's 45th Senate district, New York's Westchester and Nassau Counties and Maine are generally even more Democratic-leaning.
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We passed legislation to protect Hong Kong's pluralist society, in addition to very limited measures to make the city more democratic.
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This suggests that candidates advocating a fully government-run system need to convince more Democratic voters to unite around the idea.
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At the same time, 21 countries, including Tunisia, Armenia, Georgia and Burkina Faso, have grown more democratic over the past decade.
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The more Democratic and more Republican each district leans, the more — or fewer, respectively — DACA recipients these districts tend to have.
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The next time your friends start planning a trip together, use Kayak's new Trip Huddle tool to make decisions more democratic.
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Those new maps represent a conundrum for Walker, whose Greensboro-based district was one of two that became markedly more Democratic.
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But in the past month, a few more Democratic candidates have picked up enough additional donors that they have reached 130,000.
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But in the past month, a few more Democratic candidates have picked up enough additional donors that they have reached 130,000.
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So in 2012 Republicans put all of Schuylkill in the same district as a bunch of far more Democratic outlying areas.
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Four more Democratic senators added their support to a growing effort to block a confirmation vote through the use of a filibuster.
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Karen Altfest's wealth management business is based in New York City, and as a result, it has more Democratic than Republican clients.
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Libya Fast Facts At first there were hopes that the country would follow a more democratic path like its western neighbor, Tunisia.
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"The idea that the Spitzenkandidaten process is somehow more democratic is wrong," Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, said last year.
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Decentralized blockchain solutions are vastly more democratic, and more technically compelling, than the hermetically sealed, walled-garden, Stack-ruled internet of today.
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Tim Ryan said Wednesday he is "concerned" about a poll that found more Democratic voters view socialism positively than view capitalism positively.
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Similarly, our support for civil society can lead to lasting societal change — countries that are somewhat more democratic, and somewhat more equitable.
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It's fun that DJI is finally offering a cheaper drone and planting a flag in the more democratic arena of flying cameras.
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In the late 21980th century and early 250th centuries, countries became more democratic, first allowing most men and then women to vote.
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Meanwhile, Mrs Pelosi is denying a growing minority of Democratic lawmakers and more Democratic voters what they most want: Mr Trump's impeachment.
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Just a year after that, Emily's List was founded with a mission to elect more Democratic, pro-abortion rights women to office.
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He said there could be an effort to merge legislation on taxes with fiscal spending in order to get more Democratic support.
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Without support from the House Freedom Caucus, Republicans will need even more Democratic votes, positioning Democrats to make demands of their own.
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Listening to the radio, then, would be a "civic practice" that could create a more democratic society by exposing people to diversity.
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They hoped that more enmeshed trade and financial relationships would mean a more democratic China with closer diplomatic ties to the West.
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More than 28503 suburban counties and cities voted more Democratic than they did in 22019, according to an analysis by USA Today.
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Those who want more democratic change, meanwhile, are increasingly aware they must watch their step and avoid becoming too great a threat.
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Class V's Buyer says the notion that direct listings are a cheaper and more democratic process than traditional IPOs is partially true.
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But the basic outline of the night seems to be clear: A rehash of the 2628 election, but with more Democratic strength.
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The only realistic path to the end of this cold war is a more democratic Iran, made by the people of Iran.
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U.S. efforts to arbitrate the result or force the process will only delay the much-needed change for a more democratic Iran.
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Early voting update: Battlegrounds tight with 30 million ballots cast Latinos tend to vote more Democratic than the population as a whole.
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Keith Rothfus in the new, more-Democratic friendly 17th district, while Saccone is running in the new, more Republican-friendly 14th district.
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That process, which has been shrouded in secrecy, fed hopes that the country's Communist leaders could be contemplating a more democratic system.
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Good news for Cruz: This poll result came among all registered voters, a traditionally more Democratic-leaning group than likely voters are.
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His work is highly produced, created by a team of collaborators who add levity to the idea of a more democratic network.
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If the disease grows out of control in Alabama, it won't be long before it spreads to more Democratic states as well.
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But those same rural areas trended in a Democratic direction from 217 to 233 and ended up about six points more Democratic.
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A dismissive laughter that ensues when one of the new elite proposes a more democratic selection of the king tells it all.
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Since everyone affected by a proposed rule would have the opportunity to weigh in on it, the process would be more democratic.
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As the county has, like other high-income suburbs around the country, become more Democratic-leaning, the Republican Party has thinned out.
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Institutionalized monitoring and censorship were the norm in Myanmar under the military regime, which transitioned to a more democratic rule in 2011.
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Putin, who in office has been no friend of democracy, now seems intent on leaving a more democratic order to his successor.
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The county became more Democratic relative to the district as a whole in the 21 presidential election compared to the 22016 election.
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In fact, it will be more democratic, since the Parliament, rather than the unelected Court of Cassation, will appoint the remaining members.
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"She will be remembered as someone who tried to steer the country toward becoming more democratic in important ways," Ms. Guzmán said.
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It's true that more Democratic politicians than Republicans tend to support so-called sanctuary cities, which limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
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The ranking, for so long prefixed to Tiger Woods's name like a royal title, has become much more democratic in recent years.
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Given his larger victory, the seat has now become more Democratic-leaning and will present a tougher challenge for Republicans in 2628.
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Northam has run ads saying that Gillespie won't stand up to Trump in more Democratic areas of the state, including Northern Virginia.
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More Democratic candidates are embracing progressive policy ideas like "Medicare for All"/single payer and making emphatic cases against the Trump presidency.
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At the same time, reaction to Trump made the Democratic-leaning constituencies that party strategists turned out even more Democratic-leaning than before.
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The administration says it wants Maduro's increasingly autocratic regime to release roughly 340 political prisoners and become more democratic — or perhaps even fall.
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In all, there could be 19723 or more Democratic presidential hopefuls entering the 2020 campaign, according to political strategists interviewed for this story.
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The potentially perverse results in California should provide an impetus to consider reforms that would produce more democratic results beyond the Golden State.
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That is not easy to calculate, given Hong Kong's coarse statistics, and such a distribution of political power would be no more democratic.
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Depending on whom you ask, the new method of voting is either a push toward a more democratic system or a logistical hellscape.
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King Bhumibol's steady presence discouraged efforts to fix a broken political system prone to deadlock between royalist elites and their more democratic opponents.
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Clinton was deemed the winner by a 62% to 27%, but the debate watchers surveyed were slightly more Democratic than the general public.
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And to a certain extent that's true — I would like to hear more Democratic views about how candidates would deal with global issues.
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During Obama's tenure, the most visible nudge of China toward a more democratic approach came during a presidential visit to Beijing in 2014.
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While women and men both favored Reagan, women did so by just one percentage point, making them notably more Democratic-leaning than men.
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All of this chaos will help Republicans and drain even more Democratic resources into a state they thought would be easy to keep.
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Through this, she hopes to bring "a more democratic perspective to the artisanal bread market," which is remains frustratingly rigid in its traditions.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have staged mass protests, calling for more political freedom, economic reforms, and a more democratic distribution of power.
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What mattered to Paik was not the creation of stand-alone masterpieces, but the establishment of better, fresher, more democratic modes of communication.
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The standards aim to ensure that aid is specifically allocated to the poorest countries, to more democratic countries, and to less corrupt governments.
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" Margie Omero, Democratic political analyst: "Women have made up a majority of the electorate – and have voted more Democratic than men – for decades.
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In the more democratic Apple store, the exchange is decentralized: Scan your purchase on your phone, then waltz out of the store unassailed.
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"I fully expect smaller places to become more conservative and larger places to become more Democratic," says McGoldrick, a long-time Republican consultant.
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Rick Scott (R) in the fall, with Republicans hoping to make inroads in a community that has voted more Democratic in recent years.
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New York's no slouch either, as jazz players here continue to shirk the established institutions in favor of newer, weirder, more democratic spaces.
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These cities have the state's largest share of white-collar and affluent residents, and trend more Democratic than the state as a whole.
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She moved to New York, a state with easy residency laws and with many more Democratic voters, to mount her successful Senate bid.
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Since then, the Republican Party has become even more radical and racialized, and, as Desai writes, Asian-Americans have become even more Democratic.
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After all, here we are, almost a century later, and America has become more powerful, more tolerant, more wealthy, and even more democratic.
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When you start with that lens you start with a more democratic approach to ... Which is not ... it's not that you are special.
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And the court order did not specify that the maps should aim for partisan balance, which might have justified a more Democratic map.
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Take Me I'm Yours is a miniature experiment in value distribution, one that imagines what a more democratic art system might look like.
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But that is not all: From Congress to governor to state legislatures, many more Democratic women ran in this cycle than Republican women.
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's government has benefited from foreign investments that were made on the understanding that Myanmar was becoming more democratic.
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Carbon County Northampton County Bethlehem Lehigh County Allentown PENNSYLVANIA 5 miles Shift in margin 2012-2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 pct. pts.
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When he won the presidency in 2012, Mr. Peña Nieto was hailed as a modern reformer promising a more democratic and transparent government.
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Advocates say this system is more democratic than relying on a mere plurality, which often does not reflect the will of most voters.
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The trouble is that these stories are historically inaccurate and obscure just how protest in the 20th century forged a more democratic country.
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It's hard to make the case that more democratic freedom has been a net gain for the city's more than seven million residents.
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President Donald Trump issued an official statement supporting Morales' resignation, saying it would help pave the way for a more democratic Latin America.
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So the extent that it's opened up the public space to new voices and new perspective, it's made us better and more democratic.
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Yet his early writings helped foster a more democratic culture, and his early actions remain a potent example of speaking truth to power.
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Lebanon needs a new, more democratic means of sharing power — one that is not as easily manipulated by sectarian leaders and foreign powers.
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In 2011, the Arab Spring movement saw citizens across North Africa and the Middle East call on authoritarian regimes to become more democratic.
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" Instead of chasing these mythical beasts, he says, Democrats should see that "mobilizing more Democratic voters is the key to the 22018 election.
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The divide is not over candidates or policies but over whether the party is prepared to make its own nominating process more democratic.
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This entails reducing the size and scope of government, enhancing property rights, and promoting freer trade for a more democratic and prosperous America.
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This year, organizers have changed the way they calculate the fees they charge galleries in an effort to make the fair more democratic.
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Photographs of starving children and American bombs killing civilians became hard to ignore; each iteration of the atrocities brought in more Democratic support.
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And the formula was just taken arbitrarily out of space — mostly to take money from more Democratic states and give it to Republican states.
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The British government said it hoped that following the selection, discussion would resume about progressing to a "more democratic and accountable system of government".
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When given a choice between an Israel that is more democratic and less Jewish or less democratic and more Jewish, they chose the latter.
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Similarly, open-source Linux was vastly more democratic, and more technically compelling, than the Microsoft and Apple OSes that ruled computing at the time.
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But after a harsh police response, they escalated into an ongoing series of demonstrations calling for broader change and a more democratic voting process.
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"We are making our system more democratic," he says, explaining that this means his firm works with the government to stop disputes reaching courts.
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In recent years Colorado's economy has boomed, with the state attracting young and educated immigrants from other states, who tend to be more Democratic.
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While the economy is voters' main concern, some fear that Morocco's movement towards a more democratic system—and a more constrained monarchy—is faltering.
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The survey is in keeping with a larger trend of Asian-Americans becoming more Democratic, though Trump himself has been a particularly powerful catalyst.
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Ten more Democratic candidates will take the stage during the second night of the first set of debates, which airs Thursday at 9 p.m.
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And to make matters worse, he won't be the only Democrat trying to use his money and name-recognition to garner more Democratic support.
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Obviously, the Russian investigation looms, and if credible evidence of a crime committed by Trump emerges, more Democratic lawmakers will join calls for impeachment.
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The high oil price coincided with Soviet aggression, but as the price fell the Soviet Union became more democratic and friendly to the West.
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Fortunately for Democrats, the ballots that are counted last have tended to lean, if anything, more Democratic than the votes that are counted earlier.
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She is in the lead, in no small part, because there are simply more Democratic-leaning voters than Republican-leaning voters in the country.
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Republicans entered the year hoping to defy history and gain seats, based on a 2018 map that has far more Democratic incumbents on defense.
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That year, huge demonstrations engulfed Beijing and other Chinese cities as students and workers pushed for more democratic governance and an end to corruption.
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At a time when the international liberal order is under threat, a stronger, more united and more democratic European Union is in America's interests.
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So, for example, making the presidential nomination process more "democratic" by getting rid of superdelegates is exactly the kind of blunder that we're criticizing.
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Their success in stepping into parliament in 2019, with or without the ruling BJP, could be a big step toward a more democratic India.
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While Barr's nomination may not get more Democratic support than Sessions did, it's clear that the tone of the debate has shifted since then.
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Even as the white share of the population fell, college attainment would continue to rise, so more Democratic-leaning college grads would be around.
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Bucks County Montgomery County Chester County Philadelphia Delaware County 10 miles PENNSYLVANIA Shift in margin 2012-2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 pct. pts.
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This makes this group not only more Democratic leaning than the overall Trump approval group, but puts it to the left overall electorate overall.
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Officials in Washington and other Western capitals have expressed dismay that China hasn't become more like the United States, or at least more democratic.
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Being a revolutionary before Castro came to power in 21960 meant being committed to building a nation even more democratic than the United States.
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On ideology, slightly more Democratic primary voters say it's "very important" for the Democratic nominee to be "liberal" (8613 percent) than "moderate" (17 percent).
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Editorial On Tuesday, the World Health Organization, under more democratic rules than in the past, elected its first African director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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As white women, a long-reliable Republican voting base, have shifted more Democratic post-2016, Republican women have struggled to prevail in their primaries.
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This could force businesses to adapt to a new set of rules and may increase tensions with the Asia-Pacific region's more democratic powers.
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A new generation of builders is devising daring structures that celebrate natural materials, push for eco-consciousness — and argue for a more democratic future.
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In 1994, the high school diploma-or-under crowd was more Democratic, with 47% identifying or leaning Democrat and 42% identifying or leaning Republican.
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There was also a growing division between the Democratic coasts and the Republican heartland and between the Republican South and the more Democratic north-east.
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It's a bit bare bones at the moment, but the idea behind TorrentStream is a more democratic streaming service powered by peer-to-peer sharing.
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In some other countries, of course, you can see this is more democratic but it depends very much on the regime which is in power.
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He showed that there's a coalition ready to support and finance candidates that embrace a more democratic style of politics than mainstream Democrats thought possible.
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I want to see more citizen participation, I want to see our citizens elect the officials in Brussels - or at least have more democratic oversight.
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But the progressive wave spans throughout the entire city as more Democratic incumbents face primaries, mostly from progressive first-time candidates with no political ties.
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And if the numbers hold, the elite would lean more Democratic than Republican for the first time in at least 50 years, Mr. Gelman said.
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In 2017, her list seems to have gotten a bit more democratic: The 102 items cost $13,400 total ($12,200 if you use Oprah's special discount).
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Some of the artists selected as their subjects aristocratic opera houses and theaters, while others look to more democratic spaces of popular entertainment, like cinemas.
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Almost a quarter of all adults said they use Twitter (22%), and they tend to be younger and more Democratic leaning than the overall population.
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Trump, like Clinton, already suffers from historically low approval ratings, so there is little upside to tearing him down more, Democratic pollsters and insiders say.
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Many of the strongest Trump regions are the areas that used to be more Democratic-leaning or are still Democratic-leaning, primarily for class reasons.
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Two-thirds of Democrats view free trade positively, but that still leaves a substantial chunk who support protectionist policies, a traditionally more Democratic position anyway.
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The market is becoming more democratic, especially with the surge of online sales in medium-sized cities, and benefits mostly middle-range wines, he added.
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Of note, the Eighth isn't expected to change much if the redistricting lawsuit is successful, but it could get a point or so more Democratic.
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On Saturday, Sinema campaign manager Andrew Piatt continued to express a belief that there are more Democratic ballots left to be counted than Republican ballots.
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In the House, Republican incumbents in tough reelection races touted their work on the bill, while in the Senate more Democratic incumbents lauded the progress.
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After Obama's demand, Egyptian military officers pushed Mubarak out of office, but ultimately this did not produce a more democratic Egyptian state; quite the reverse.
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And if the numbers hold, the elite would lean more Democratic than Republican for the first time in at least 50 years, Mr. Gelman said.
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After all, a more democratic and pluralistic world will always be in America's long-term interest: supporting global peace and security, and greater economic prosperity.
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This serves the purpose of retaining a target for pseudo-political competition while also stymieing the potential for new, more democratic forces to gain traction.
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But Mr. Autor and his colleagues found that in districts with heavy minority representation, similar shocks can push more Democratic districts in the opposite direction.
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Britain's Minister for Africa, meanwhile, said the former colonial power wants Zimbabwe's new rulers to place the country on a more democratic and prosperous path.
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This is just the first round of Red to Blue, and more Democratic candidates and districts will be added over the course of the cycle.
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Five Senate Democrats voted for the previous bill, but more Democratic votes will be required if it is to pass the Senate on Monday. Sen.
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Democrats had been hoping they could pull off a number of upsets in the purple state, which has gradually gotten more Democratic over the years.
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And with a record number of US workers going on strike these days, we're likely to see even more Democratic candidates on the picket line.
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"As more and more Democratic priorities become casualties of this conservative takeover of the courts, I think it'll wake up the progressive grassroots," he said.
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Women are leaning more Democratic this year than ever before — and much of the anti-Trump activism around the country has been led by women.
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They will be tempted to go further — to suppress more votes, use more racism, cover up more scandals and violate more democratic rules and customs.
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In December, he announced that he will not run for reelection this fall after redrawn North Carolina congressional lines made his district significantly more Democratic.
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In our more democratic age, we don't dare admit that we think we are better than others, let alone that anyone is better than us.
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Meanwhile, the Fed says student loans are smothering the housing market and more Democratic 2020 candidates are campaigning on the promise of tuition-free college.
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Democrats aim to defend or flip U.S. House seats around Austin, Houston and Dallas, cities with changing demographics that have made them skew more Democratic.
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Then, King Mohammed VI was quick to respond, promising a more democratic Constitution and raising the salaries of public officials, measures that helped placate Moroccans.
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It is tempting to imagine that electing a Democratic president or more Democratic politicians will fix the crises in our justice systems and our democracy.
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Where once the market for wines that aged along glorious arcs was small, wealthy and dynastic, interest in wine today has become far more democratic.
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One more Democratic governor, he tells crowds, can be a check to an out-of-control White House on issues like immigration and the environment.
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A more democratic solution would be to implement a regional primary system in which larger, more representative percentages of the entire voting population could participate.
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A bevy of candidates could be a double-edged sword for Democrats, with a handful of competitive districts already seeing five or more Democratic challengers.
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Long-term demographic shifts and an influx of tech jobs have gradually turned Orange County more Democratic, as it has become younger and more diverse.
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If both of those things happen, there is a strong chance you would see more Democratic politicians and voters coming out in favor of the process.
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Despite her solid record of popularity with New Hampshire voters, the state remains closely divided between upstate Republicans and more Democratic voters in Boston's outer suburbs.
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Finally, elections can be made more democratic and competitive: In 2018, anti-gerrymandering efforts passed at the ballot box in Michigan, Missouri, Utah, Ohio and Colorado.
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And at Rebecca Minkoff, which pioneered much of the movement to making Fashion Week more democratic, models strutted down a cobblestone street outside the designer's shop.
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When large foundations do give to more Democratic-tinged policy work, they give to a small number of large, national groups working at the federal level.
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It argues that putting judges under the control of the legislative and executive branches will makes the courts answerable to the voters, and thus more democratic.
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And just as fashion has become more democratic, style has become a universal language — a way of connecting with clients, contacts, and coworkers across the world.
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"But I can tell you it will include economic considerations as well as political considerations," she said when asked whether Mexico would target more Democratic constituencies.
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That's why it's imperative for us to elect more Democratic women up and down the ballot who will expand equality and stand up for working families.
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She has also partnered with EMILY's List to help boost that group's effort to get more Democratic women who are pro–abortion rights elected to office.
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In the east, the demographic changes, secularism and shifting suburban settlement patterns common to the rest of the Northeast Corridor are making the region more Democratic.
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In 1997, there were 164 congressional districts that performed somewhere between five points more Democratic and five points more Republican than the nation as a whole.
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ICOs are a route around the IPO that is more democratic than today's system, but there are also forces of privatization working against IPOs as well.
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The turnout drop in past off-year elections enabled Republicans to overachieve and maintain their legislative majorities even as Virginia trended more Democratic as a whole.
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In other words, while Asian-American voters are far more Democratic than other, similarly educated white voters, they don't show up to the polls as reliably.
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Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Virginia and Wisconsin have also joined the effort, with more Democratic attorneys general likely to join in.
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The rallies and protests have continued and broadened, however, with demonstrators calling for more democratic reforms in Hong Kong as well as Lam's removal from office.
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The more outrageous Trump's actions, Payne contended, the more Democratic voters were likely to prioritize finding a candidate who can beat him over progressive structural reforms.
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Compared with Republicans, far more Democratic primary voters see their side as unified and say the campaign has made them feel mostly proud of their party.
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In the presidential campaign it is now possible that there are more Democratic candidates than the number of offensive and defensive players on an NFL team.
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And this southwestern district is much more Democratic than the one Lamb has already won in — Trump won it by just two and a half points.
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"I started thinking about what it would be like to create something more democratic this time, without compromising anything about the design or quality," he said.
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The poll showed there are more Democratic voters who are unsure of who they want than those who said they would be satisfied with either Sen.
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Of course, every candidate in this field has some electability issues, and I understand why Warren is now getting a new look from more Democratic voters.
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Tony Dutzik is a senior policy analyst with Frontier Group, which provides information and ideas to help citizens build a cleaner, healthier and more democratic America.
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Lamb was able to blunt the GOP attacks about Pelosi, which could open the door for more Democratic candidates or lawmakers to come out against her.
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Rafael Correa has been out of office for more than two years now, and Lenín Moreno has taken the country back in a more democratic direction.
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And they embraced, however imperfectly, a more democratic vision of the university, emphasizing a diversity of voices and viewpoints, inquiry over dogma, and egalitarianism over hierarchy.
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If Republicans had been able to win over more Democratic support in the House, they could have defeated the resolution formalizing the rules of the procedure.
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Far more Democratic- than Republican-leaning women in the survey said it was appropriate to encourage young boys to undertake activities usually associated with young girls.
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Ben Tarnoff: One of the phrases of the disability rights movement is, "nothing about us without us," which perfectly encapsulates a more democratic approach to technology.
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Rather than turn a blind eye to creeping authoritarianism, it should pressure governments to become more democratic and less beholden to corrupt elites and criminal networks.
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That impetus continues to exist today under an Iranian government that is, with all its flaws, far more democratic, more acceptable to its people and more responsible.
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"Data shows us that Democrats are moving into Republican districts and making them more Democratic over time, as we look between now and 2020," DCCC chair Rep.
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In other words, as soon as one force appears to shift the Sunshine State in a more Democratic direction, another one appears to push back against it.
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If cables are built on a history of political power dynamics, it's not any more democratic today when businesses control those same means of information, is it?
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Like many of his classmates, he went to Tiananmen Square on the morning of June 3rd to participate in peaceful demonstrations calling for a more democratic government.
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The American president has said he wants Gulf allies to offer more democratic reforms and improve human rights, and he discussed that with King Salman on Wednesday.
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In the end, the aid resumed in 2015 over security concerns without any meaningful moves toward more democratic governance in Egypt -- the official condition for resuming aid.
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The platform theoretically supports a more democratic way to develop services: Anyone can create "tokens" on the ethereum blockchain for any decentralized application (dapp) that they create.
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More Democratic electors are joining the call for an intelligence briefing on Russian interference in the presidential election before they cast their votes for president on Monday.
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Find your presidential match with the 2016 Candidate Matchmaker Sanders has another particularly useful tool in his pocket: More Democratic debates, starting Sunday night in Flint, Michigan.
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"Data shows us that Democrats are moving into Republican districts and making them more Democratic over time, as we look between now and 22020," DCCC chair Rep.
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Her win in the once staunchly Republican county was an early sign of California's demographic shift, as the state became more ethnically diverse and far more Democratic.
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It is recently full of townhome complexes and apartments, denser housing that political scientists have linked with more economically and racially diverse residents — and more Democratic voters.
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Clifton said in 1998, impeachment was a big theme during the midterms, but the more the GOP's impeachment efforts moved forward, the more Democratic voters were energized.
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Democrats would pick up 25 House seats, and a bare majority, if the average U.S. Congressional district voters 13 points more Democratic than it did in 2016.
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"There have been a lot more Democratic women than Republican women and that's one of the reasons why they've been slower to get in leadership," she said.
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And their numbers could grow as the primaries end and more Democratic candidates are asked to clarify their positions on the Democratic leader in the general contests.
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Younger people usually means more Democratic votes and the Republicans who control Congress may not want to put this idea in the heads of other legislative bodies.
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Second, the increasing concentration of Democratic voters in urban areas — and Republican gerrymandering to exploit this — means more and more Democratic votes are "wasted" on easy wins.
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Erie Scranton State College Allentown Pittsburgh Harrisburg Philadelphia Shift in margin from 212016 to 212020 More Democratic More Republican 50 30 10 10 30 50 pct. pts.
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As to why this is more of a liberal problem than a conservative one, right now the white college-educated population is much more Democratic than Republican.
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In the 270s and '53s, television broke up the chokehold that big city machines held on national politics, pushing the parties toward more democratic caucuses and primaries.
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There will be at least four more Democratic debates, so maybe the remaining candidates should be asked about student-loan debt and the striking publicly available data.
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The Texas Triangle has also become more Democratic; Mr O'Rourke's share of the vote was six percentage points higher within it than Mrs Clinton's was in 22020.
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The redrawn seat on the general election ballot is more Democratic-leaning, and the GOP is likely to lose the district in the new Congress next year.
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I'm speaking up because it's the right thing to do for our party and country, and I hope more Democratic leaders around the country will join me.
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As urban areas become more Democratic leaning and rural areas move to the right, the suburbs are likely going to be where the 2020 election is decided.
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Proponents also argue that the system results in the election of candidates favored by the greatest number of people, and is therefore more democratic than other systems.
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I'm flipping through emails to clear out my inbox and come across an invite for a cocktail party/political fundraiser aiming to get more Democratic women elected.
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Among the Democratic primary field, candidates' favorability has tended to track with their name recognition, meaning the more Democratic voters know them, the more they like them.
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The trend comes as Americans have shown greater support in recent years for a more democratic presidential election process, without the translational risks of the electoral college.
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As an analysis by CNN's Ryan Struyk found, the more Democratic-leaning a congressional district is, the more DACA recipients it is likely to be home to.
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And it's why Pompeo is free to make a statement that signals to Beijing that the US wants it to become a lot more democratic — or else.
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Mr. O'Rourke's video struck some observers as especially out of place in a presidential race in which more Democratic women are running for president than ever before.
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He'll be better positioned with a likely more Democratic presidential year electorate, in another state with a growing Hispanic population likely to turn out big against Trump.
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Second, the US and other countries for decades hoped that engaging China would prompt it to open up its economy and eventually become a more democratic society.
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Gerrymandering is a more democratic process than naming a bureaucratic commission to draw maps, argued J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department voting section lawyer and Holder critic.
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"I am so excited about this upcoming genre of designers, who are focused on creating really great clothes and accessories at a more democratic price point," Aiken adds.
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A 21st century version of Jim Crow voter manipulation could threaten all the decades of voting reforms that have helped create a more tolerant – and more democratic – America.
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Turns out that without Hillary atop the ticket, Midwest states like Wisconsin are tough for Trump, and Southern states with rising Hispanic populations are slowly growing more Democratic.
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So if Lamb wants to stay in Congress, he now has to mount a Democratic primary campaign in a district that's a lot more Democratic than the 18th.
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A study by Takaaki Masaki of the World Bank and Nicolas van de Walle of Cornell University found that African countries grow faster if they are more democratic.
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The investigations will be led by as many as six different House committees with some falling under the possible jurisdiction of two or more, Democratic congressional sources said.
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It invokes the idea (popular among opponents of comprehensive immigration reform) that Democrats only support giving citizenship to unauthorized immigrants because they want to create more Democratic voters.
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But it is not clear whether attacks related to the Democratic leader will work in House elections, especially if more Democratic candidates decline to support her as leader.
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Cook also found that 28503 percent of Democratic-leaning seats became more Democratic during the 22019 election, while 65 percent of Republican-leaning seats grew even more Republican.
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White women have been getting more Democratic both on the national level and in most states polled since 2012 -- that includes Arizona, Florida, Missouri, Texas and West Virginia.
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The majority of the spots are focusing on taking aim at Republicans over health care, as more Democratic campaigns and groups make it a central issue this year.
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Mugabe's successor Emmerson Mnangagwa has signaled his intention to usher in a more democratic era, although analysts have questioned whether opposition parties will be allowed to operate freely.
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At a closed-door fundraiser, audio of which was published on CNN, Heck said he wanted to support Trump — comments that ended up in still more Democratic advertising.
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The other side: Opponents argue teenagers aren't mature enough to make informed decisions and argue that it's a partisan push to get more Democratic voters in the rolls.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain wants Zimbabwe's new rulers to show clear resolve to place the country on a more democratic and prosperous path after the fall of Robert Mugabe.
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Cuba has long argued its system it more democratic than western ones as it is not driven by parties funded by lobbies seeking to push their specific interests.
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My guess is more Democratic senators sign onto that movement in the coming days -- seeing no downside to being identified as vehemently anti-Trump by the party base.
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The area west of Washington has leaned slightly more Democratic in recent presidential elections than the country as a whole, according to Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index.
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Some of the districts GOP members will leave have also become more competitive in recent years as suburban areas in Texas and around the country tilt more Democratic.
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BEIJING — On Wednesday, he posted an appeal to change China's Constitution, suggesting, among other things, that there might be a more democratic way to elect the country's leader.
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For Airbnb, the panel was just one part of a broader push at the DNC, the goal of which is to win over more Democratic hearts and minds.
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New web technologies like blockchain have the potential to create a more democratic and safer internet, in which users have more control and accountability is distributed more equitably.
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In 2016, Trump benefited from an evolution in the rural vote from more Democratic to more Republican, which exit polls show has been happening gradually over recent decades.
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In a state that is tilting more Democratic and where Mr. Trump is deeply unpopular, Mr. Grossman's attempts to tap into Trump momentum may be a losing strategy.
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The student says she believes more women could play a greater role in progressing the campaign for more democratic measures to be put in place across the city.
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I do the same, and yet I often form more democratic/liberal opinions on the same issues, and when these opinions collide it can form some interesting conversations.
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These included pro-government militias, rebels fighting for a more democratic state, Islamist extremists, and militias from ethnic and religious minorities seeking to protect their areas from attack.
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In other words, Iraqis and Iranians wanting a more democratic future don't necessarily need the US to get it, and may not even trust Washington to begin with.
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And yet a Politico/Morning Consult poll from June showed that slightly more Democratic women support the Hyde Amendment (at 237 percent) than oppose it (at 503 percent).
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Indeed, it's difficult these days to think of a single country in Southeast Asia, with its 620 million people, that is becoming more democratic rather than more authoritarian.
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The answer was not to resort to populism, he said, but for mainstream parties to "bring in new blood" and be "much more democratic" in their decision making.
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On paper, there are more democratic countries and elected leaders in the world than ever, yet several indexes show a clear downslide in the practice of democracy overall.
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Republicans have said the issue could be attached to the next CR in an effort to sweeten the pot and attract more Democratic votes for the stopgap bill.
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More Democratic lawmakers are coming forward with offers to hire former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabeAndrew George McCabeThe Hill's Morning Report — Will Congress do anything on gun control?
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Primaries were designed to be more democratic, but they, too, are designed for engagement — only a tiny percentage of the population participates, and tribalism and outrage often dominate.
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More Democratic challengers have out-raised Republican incumbents and candidates than ever before — including in at least 73 House races for open seats, which are traditionally easier to flip.
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"We have seen a shift since 2010 of older voters moving more Democratic than any other age group," Richard Fiesta, the director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, said.
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In all but one presidential election since 1952, the mean congressional district in Pennsylvania was much more Democratic than the median one—a testament to Democrats' inefficient geographic distribution.
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These differences lead to other ways where how the Twitterverse feels about key issues — like equality or immigration — differs from the general public, with viewpoints that lean more Democratic.
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That fact has the Clinton campaign believing they could pick up one vote in the state's 2nd congressional district, made up primarily by more Democratic-leaning Omaha. Then-Sen.
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As a result of this more democratic model, "much more talent is going to be given an opportunity because there's not the restriction of box office numbers," Notcutt predicts.
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But if the conceit is that blockchain is inherently more democratic and the code can't be corrupted in the way a human can, then you can't blame the code.
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Public colleges should give to students an unbiased educational experience, which seems virtually impossible to do when a campus has 20 or more Democratic professors for every one Republican.
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But America had a much more democratic political system than Europe, with universal male franchise; there was strong support for free banking, which allowed farmers easy access to credit.
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Politico reported Tuesday that the administration's tax reform proposal — slated to be unveiled Wednesday — is likely to include money for infrastructure upgrades in order to garner more Democratic support.
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But if other GOP senators defect -- and several have said they're on the fence -- or McCain returns to Washington, she will need to pick up more Democratic support. Sen.
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Kavanaugh has also raised questions about the constitutionality of independent counsels, raising more Democratic concerns that he could pose problems for special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Trump.
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Rather than casting him aside and waiting for a more democratic leader to emerge, we should be squeezing him — making him, as Truman would say, "our bastard," our fighter.
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Hong Kong is in its third month of protests that started in opposition to a proposed extradition law and have expanded to include demands for a more democratic system.
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And while his high unfavorable ratings may put some Republican-held seats in jeopardy, his strong appeal to working-class whites could also bring more Democratic seats into play.
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For his part, Merritt presents the recipes of several research institutions, all of which call for rejuvenating the E.U.'s structures to make them more democratic, flexible and efficient.
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" Sanders said the the United States would have "hoped that they would move toward a more Democratic form of government," and criticized China for "moving in the opposite direction.
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Democrats' frustration has been slowly bubbling over as the White House stonewalls their oversight and investigative pursuits, which has prompted more Democratic calls for an impeachment inquiry to begin.
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Perhaps another reason that graphic novels and comics have received a reputation as a lower form of literature is that they are more democratic media in terms of accessibility.
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Republicans, however, decried his decision as politically motivated, saying it was a move to add more Democratic voters to the rolls of a battleground state in an election year.
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The state has seen a surge in new residents in recent years, particularly in suburban areas and cities, such as Charlotte, that could create a more Democratic-friendly electorate.
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The First is the more Democratic of the two—Cincinnati is liberal enough that even adding all of heavily Republican Warren County to it still makes the district winnable.
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And I've been working on and thinking through, how can you set up a more democratic or community-oriented process that reflects the values of people around the world?
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In that light, the new definition is more democratic — one that's free to be used throughout all the world and not kept locked up in a case in France.
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"Like most of the state's larger cities, Wilmington has seen an influx of urban white liberals, making the city more Democratic," wrote John Wynne, a North Carolina elections analyst.
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It would be both more sensible and more democratic to rescue the essence of the concept: Everyone may not succeed, but at least in theory all of us could.
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One possibility, though, is that black voters skew more Democratic, and the election occurred during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, which sharply divided liberals and conservatives.
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The Cuban regime remains fairly protected from domestic pressures to become more democratic, even if it is ultimately in the Cuban Communist Party's long-term interests to do so.
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Protesters are worried that China is slowly eroding the "one country, two systems" principle by which Hong Kong has been allowed to maintain many of its more democratic features.
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The result, even in an arena that is supposedly more democratic than a Broadway theater, feels less like an American hero's tale than like a good old Soviet embalming.
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Pushing countries to be more democratic and liberalize their economies has been a core tenet of US foreign policy for years, one followed by Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
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More than 1,000 students marched Thursday at the Chinese University in a continuing show of support for Tsang and vowing to keep up their fight for more democratic freedoms.
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Understanding The Times Today's A1 is the result of a far more democratic and organic process than the one in place when I arrived at The Times in 1978.
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Political analysts say that allowing many convicted felons to vote could eventually transform Florida's electorate and make it lean more Democratic, since many former prisoners fit the party's demographics.
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"Right now, we need to seize this opportunity for Franco-German initiatives to make Europe more democratic, involve the citizens and make it fit for the future," Gabriel said.
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During the fair's first 0003 years in existence, the committee was composed of one delegate from each country represented, making for a more democratic — if slightly more bureaucratic — process.
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And I've been working on and thinking through: How can you set up a more democratic or community-oriented process that reflects the values of people around the world?
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The biggest debuts each year at the Geneva Motor Show are usually eye-popping supercars, but look hard enough and you can find some more... democratic ideas in the margins.
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More Democratic congressional candidates have competed in the 2018 election cycle than either party attracted in any cycle since 1980, according to an Axios analysis of Federal Election Commission data.
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"But with an interactive design tool like this - I call it digital Lego - they are so engaged, and that makes the process more democratic," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Simply put, making the Democratic Party more democratic is a necessary first step to making it a party they can believe now, let alone for the rest of their lives.
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The new story sheds some much sought-after light on the founding of the American school and how its culture – less elitist and more democratic – differs from that of Hogwarts.
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That said, Robert Woodberry of Baylor University in Texas has mounted statistical arguments that former colonies where evangelical (what he calls "conversionary") Protestant missionaries were active have become more democratic.
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One year after President Trump was elected, Democrats have flipped 21 state legislature seats from red to blue and more Democratic women are running at every level than ever before.
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The relative Democratic strength among Hispanic voters may also mean that nonvoters nationwide may be more Democratic than nonvoters in the battlegrounds, since nonvoters nationwide are likelier to be Hispanic.
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You can expect lots and lots more Democratic politicians and organizations -- Weinstein gave heavily to the Democratic National Committee, among others -- to follow the lead of that quartet of senators.
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Younger Latinos leaned more Democratic than their older counterparts, with 68 percent of those under age 45 voting for Democrats compared with 59 percent of those age 45 and over.
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Murphy, another first-time candidate, is competing in a district that the Florida Supreme Court recently redrew so that it's younger and more Democratic than it was in past elections.
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Moreover, the longer this war drags on the less likely it is that Ukraine will become more democratic or that it will be able to reform its economy by itself.
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"The process makes CLOs more democratic because when the deal refinances, everyone can participate and it makes the process easier and the cost of the refinancing comes down," Khan said.
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Defeating climate change, Sunrise's leaders have come to believe, will require a massive reordering of the U.S. economy—away from free-market fundamentalism and toward something fairer and more democratic.
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Only in a more democratic Iran can Iranians engage in a much-needed debate about whether it is in Iran's interest to pursue a policy of nuclear enrichment at all.
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This is the proposal I present, along with an ambitious program aimed at reigniting the economic and industrial sectors, reducing inequality, improving administrative efficiency and making Catalonia's institutions more democratic.
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Issa served in the House for 18 years until he opted to retire in 2018 instead of running for reelection in a nearby coastal district that has become more Democratic.
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The initiative was thrown out in court, but the Republican embrace of it contributed to the party's long decline in political power as the state became more Democratic and Latino.
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Caucuses have a certain appeal because they are seen as a more democratic process of selecting a nominee, explained Nicholas Kachiroubas, a professor at DePaul University's School of Public Service.
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Carbon County Northampton County Bethlehem Lehigh County Allentown PENNSYLVANIA 5 miles Shift in margin from 2012 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 23 10 10 30 50 pct. pts.
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But I just refuse to believe that with more democratic control over those resources, rather than being in the hands of a concentrated few, that more good wouldn't be done.
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Steel, a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, is hoping to prove that Rouda's victory was due more to an unpopular incumbent than the district turning more Democratic.
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In general, the argument for ranked choice is, in short, that it's more democratic than relying on a plurality of support or a top-two runoff to declare a winner.
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A decade ago, many in Hong Kong and the mainland might have quietly assumed that China itself would have a more democratic character by then, but that now seems unlikely.
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Even before Costello's move, the party faced a challenge in holding the seat after a new congressional map set by the state's Supreme Court made his 6th District more Democratic.
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In the mid-19th century, a class of white-collar vacationers emerged and gradually changed the once-exclusive retreats into the more democratic — and pleasure-focused — destinations we know today.
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Or, to put it differently, there are six seats currently held by Republicans that now have a more Democratic-leaning electorate, and one district that becomes significantly safer for Republicans.
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Tonight's highlights include useful context for the Carrier deal, more Democratic heat on the new administration, a rejected Trump job offer and a new IRS tool ahead of tax season.
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And while each is from a decidedly more Democratic state than Mr. Bullock, both are also unapologetic, business-friendly pragmatists with a focus on economic development that borders on obsessive.
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The poll tends to skew more Democratic, and this is Clinton's narrowest margin in that poll yet — the results in the first two debates were 62-27 and 57-34.
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"We now experience images and media in so many new, more democratic ways," says Gelardi, viewing the selfie as a means of forcing new ideas of beauty into mainstream culture.
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It is true that in the 2018 Senate elections, far more Democratic seats are in play than GOP seats, and that gerrymandering after the 2010 census gives Republicans an edge.
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Generally speaking, Francis's last-minute audible also stunned people because he has, at least on the surface, been a more democratic and less dictatorial pope than those of the past.
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Already House conservatives voted against the bill, railing against the high spending numbers and lack of right-wing policy priorities — meaning the final package had to attract more Democratic votes.
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New calls for impeachment The immediate political effect of Trump's interview was to fan more Democratic calls for the President's impeachment -- and to make House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's life more difficult.
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I invite every business leader across the nation to join me in fighting for a more democratic democracy for all Americans by supporting legislation and lawmakers working diligently toward that goal.
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More and more Democratic presidential hopefuls are adopting a single-payer health care stance, which could be devastating for any player in the health insurance business, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Monday.
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But even on this measure, the proportion of the world's population living in a democracy has (just barely) continued to climb, because countries with larger or growing populations got more democratic.
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Ms. Pollard, 58, a retired orthopedic nurse, is one of the best in the game, credited with turning out more Democratic votes in 2014 than any other volunteer in the state.
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But that survey also found that more Democratic voters said they wanted to focus on improving the ACA than said they wanted Congress to pass a national Medicare-for-all plan.
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Inhofe is hoping the report can garner some more Democratic support for a bill he co-sponsored to overturn the rule and make the agencies go back to the drawing board.
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And to have a more sovereign, more ambitious project for Europe's future, which is more democratic, and which on both digital and climate issues goes much faster and is more powerful.
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"As these issues come to the floor, particularly this year in an election year, I think you'll see more and more Democratic breaks from their leadership," Holmes, the GOP strategist, said.
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Recognizing that countries that are more equal are also more stable, more peaceful and more democratic, we are resolved to strengthen the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda.
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"There is nothing more democratic than elections," he said at a Russian economic forum, according to the AP. In the process Putin described, the opposition would work with the existing government.
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Read more: Democratic primary voters expect Elizabeth Warren to crush the third 2020 Democratic debate, while expectations of Joe Biden have taken a sharp downturnIn the past few weeks, former Gov.
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What Loomis's book perhaps does best is remind us that the promise of the labor movement, despite its many failures and compromises, has always been to make everyday life more democratic.
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Pete Buttigieg has borrowed from Warren, calling himself a "democratic capitalist," as she does, although he so far has not issued any semblance of a plan to make capitalism more democratic.
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It will enable them, I think when they see people coming into their country from the United States, move in a more democratic direction, which is what I want to see.
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While Obama's presidential win in 85033 also led to more Democratic seats, some party officials worried that the local races would be a lower priority than those Obama chose to support.
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A 6900 survey of the Iranian people by researchers at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya revealed they have more democratic values and tendencies than Egyptians, Moroccans, Indians, Russians, South Koreans and Ukrainians.
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Whatever the case, a national emergency likely wouldn't make the President's path toward a border wall any easier, and might instead incite more Democratic pushback and the possibility of legal challenges.
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CK: I don't know if it's ... I think it's at a key inflection point and will evolve into something that will have some similarities to today, but hopefully become more democratic.
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And with more and more Democratic lawmakers beginning to question whether tech conglomerates have acquired their billions through anticompetitive practices, it makes sense that Google's making sure it has Republican allies.
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There were two more Democratic pickups in Latino-majority districts in Florida, and one each in New Mexico and Arizona, while Democrats held on to two hotly contested seats in Nevada.
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The hope, shared by Cuban-Americans who harbor a deep resentment of the Castro government, is to encourage a more democratic state that upholds human rights and holds free fair elections.
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The groups that backed women candidates in the poll tend to be more Democratic, as Democrats are nominating a record number of women this year, as well as more than Republicans.
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Indeed, our study reveals that while becoming more democratic does not necessarily make nations wealthier, it does lead to the government spending more on health and fewer deaths from cardiovascular disease.
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Delivering his keynote State of the European Union address Wednesday, Juncker outlined a number of measures the union must implement in order to build a "stronger, more democratic Europe" by 2025.
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He could have, like new Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai, made the case that this was a complicated geopolitical situation, even if the protesters' basic demand—more democratic rule—isn't really.
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Two more Democratic debates in the coming weeks will provide Trump fodder to attack his prospective opponents, and the president is likely to hold additional campaign rallies himself in swing states.
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Voters have been increasingly sorted and Democrats have become increasingly concentrated, not just by nefarious gerrymandering, but also because we live in urban areas and urban areas have become more Democratic.
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Their Sons Sought a More Democratic Hong Kong, and Got Prison In rare interviews, the parents of Joshua Wong and other pro-democracy activists shared stories of regret, pride and anguish.
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Americans believe their elections are far more democratic than they actually are, and that's because the most undemocratic institutions — like superdelegates and the Electoral College — tend to follow the popular will.
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Orban has faced weeks of protests in Budapest for a more democratic government, triggered by a law which hit a top university founded in Budapest by billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros.
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As we start #BlackHistoryMonth, we remember the many Americans—from Frederick Douglass to Zora Neale Hurston to Dr. King—who fought to make this country more democratic, more fair, and more free.
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The modern primary system, with state-by-state primaries and caucuses determining nominees, was only introduced in the 1970s, and since then there have been cries to make the process more democratic.
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Last night, a CNN/ORC Instapoll showed that 62 percent of voters thought Clinton won, while 27 percent thought Trump did — but the poll's sample skewed more Democratic than the general electorate.
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While GOP governors of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and even Iowa have welcomed federal support and volunteered their troops, other more Democratic-leaning states like California, Nevada, and Oregon have been hesitant.
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In fact, there are currently 50 seats held by Republican House members whose districts lean more Democratic than Ryan's home turf, according to new ratings by the non-partisan Cook Political Report.
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On Thursday, Axios reported that leaders of the Republican Study Committee, a caucus of conservatives in the House, oppose the deal, which could mean it'll pass with more Democratic than Republican votes.
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So social media, like other forms of technology, will cut both ways in politics: they are making societies more democratic, but will also provide those in power with new tools of control.
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Between 2009 and 2014, 3.4 countries improved by at least two points on a 14-point scale produced by Freedom House, a think-tank, suggesting they became notably more democratic and liberal.
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He has said the composition of parliament does not reflect the country's new political reality and changes to the electoral code were necessary for the vote to be more democratic and fair.
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White college-educated women, a more specific subgroup, have moved even more Democratic in every key battleground state polled (including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, and Texas) and nationally since 2014.
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The downballot gains could also lead to more Democratic statehouses before the next Census, which would in turn mean less Republican gerrymandering, and a significantly improved House outlook for Democrats through 2030.
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The protesters have five demands: they want an inquiry into police brutality, for all of those who have been arrested to be released, and for Hong Kong to have more democratic rights.
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Amy McGrath, the Democratic nominee for a House seat in Kentucky, will need to win rural, traditionally Republican parts of her district as well as more Democratic-leaning cities like Frankfort, above.
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If Gillespie pulls off the upset, expect many more GOP challengers to follow his lead and fully embrace Trumpist issues — and expect much more Democratic hand-wringing of how best to respond.
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However, one of the lessons of the age of meritocracy is that building a more democratic and inclusive ruling class is harder than it looks, and even perhaps a contradiction in terms.
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Erie Scranton State College Allentown Altoona Pittsburgh Reading Harrisburg Lancaster Philadelphia York 303 miles Shift in margin from 2012 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 201693 201683 201673 201663 201653 pct.
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Butler County Armstrong County Beaver County Allegheny County Pittsburgh Washington County Westmoreland County 10 miles Fayette County PENNSYLVANIA Shift in margin 2012-2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 0 50 pct. pts.
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These include ones Mr. Trump narrowly won like Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida, as well as those he won by larger margins but have tilted more Democratic lately, like Arizona and North Carolina.
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Its energy led to big gains for Democrats in Virginia's elections last year, which both provided more Democratic votes for Medicaid expansion — and scared some Republicans into supporting an extremely popular policy.
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The exact number is higher in more Republican and lower in more Democratic states, but majorities tend to flip from blue to red roughly where commuter suburbs give way to "exurban" sprawl.
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Believe it or not, there are still more Democratic debates: After three in quick succession this month, the next debate — No. 11 — will take place on Sunday, March 15, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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A local informed me that Cairo's lack of traffic laws or enforcement shows that Egypt is more democratic than the United States: People are not hemmed in by restrictive laws or policing.
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According to social media posts from Attac, a group that campaigns for more democratic globalisation, there was also a sit-down protest outside an Amazon logistics centre near Lyon, in eastern France.
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This is a case where philanthropy can enable outcomes that are more "democratic" — more respectful of local self-determination, local law, and public opinions — than the behavior of the democratic U.S. government.
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But Brindisi outraised Tenney in 2017's third and fourth quarters -- making Tenney the subject of more GOP grumbling than other New York Republicans who represent more Democratic-leaning districts, including Reps.
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The city, a major hub of global finance, has been rocked by six months of often violent demonstrations against a now-withdrawn extradition bill that widened into demands for more democratic freedoms.
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Others, like Roosevelt University political scientist David Faris, argue that Democrats need to go on the offensive with moves that would make voting and elections both more democratic and more favorable to Democrats.
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Bloomberg had already tried to short-circuit the attacks on his record with an apology, a tactic that had worked intermittently for Biden, who had started this primary with far more Democratic goodwill.
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In these conversations, we discussed how and why each institution developed these spaces, and the ways in which they help make the institution seem more democratic and welcoming to the communities they serve.
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I found the suggestion of devolving more democratic powers to cities almost laughably lame in comparison; and further it is difficult to imagine how a local administration could enact any truly grand vision.
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Carol-Ann Fitzgerald, 58, who describes herself as "more Democratic than Republican," said she teared up on Thursday afternoon when Mr. Rubio recalled his father's trouble finding work when he immigrated from Cuba.
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The area is home to wealthier, well-educated voters who used to vote reliably Republican but are leaning more Democratic these days, according to University of New Hampshire political science professor Dante Scala.
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"Google's deep investment will help us think bigger and bolder about how to make policing more democratic and more American," Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, president and cofounder of CPE, said in a statement.
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"What is more beautiful, more democratic, more dignified than to give the choice back to the people," Salvini told the Senate in a speech constantly interrupted by shouting and heckling from other parties.
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There are significantly more Democratic women (32) running for the Senate than Republican women (22) in 2018, which is a constant of recent history, except for a few small spikes, all before 1994.
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That's partly the Democrats' fault: Impeachment is a far more Democratic-friendly position these days than other supposedly liberal, mysteriously forgotten issues, such as curtailing government surveillance or ending the war on terror.
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With an influx of young voters, a number fleeing the city, with more minorities and especially a growing Asian population, this bloc has turned more Democratic, a trend that Mr. Trump could accelerate.
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Judge Garland met with four more Democratic senators on Thursday, including the two remaining Democrats on the committee he had yet to see: Senators Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Chris Coons of Delaware.
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And in Virginia, voters elected Democrat Ralph Northam, a staunch Obamacare supporter, as governor and sent more Democratic lawmakers to the statehouse, which is sure to restart the debate over expanding Medicaid there.
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The survey was given to residents from the Birmingham metropolitan area who have voted in the last year, including 21 counties surrounding the city and not limited to more democratic-leaning urban areas.
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The 2020 election is already expected to see strong turnout due to how polarizing Trump has been as president, but a particularly energizing nominee could spur even more Democratic-leaning voters to participate.
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The down-ballot gains could also lead to more Democratic statehouses before the next census, which would in turn mean less Republican gerrymandering and a significantly improved House outlook for Democrats through 2030.
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Erie Scranton State College Allentown Altoona Pittsburgh Reading Harrisburg Philadelphia Lancaster York 201623 miles Shift in margin from 201613 to 201603 More Democratic More Republican 2150 210 2150 2115 212 2162 pct. pts.
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It is equally unclear whether pollsters have been assuming the high-turnout, more Democratic electorate implied by early voting and the turnout in the special and general elections since Mr. Trump became president.
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"Diversity means meeting with people across the aisle who are traditionally more Democratic, who are coming together and wanting to offer him advice, perhaps vie for a spot in his Cabinet," Conway said.
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George W. Bush was right on one thing about the Iraq war — many Iraqis wanted to be free to be more democratic once the tyranny of Saddam Hussein was lifted from their necks.
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One thing that made the trustees squirm was Moses' insistence that the museum needed to be more democratic, more entertaining, more popular, more representative of the community, and more responsive to its needs.
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"There's no question that you'd see a map that elected more Democratic members," Matt Angle, a veteran Democratic operative in the state, said of the prospect a Democratic majority in the lower chamber.
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Teshome, 63, took office in 2013 and had often spoken for a more democratic and inclusive government in the Horn of Africa country, which has faced political upheaval and unrest for many years.
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Because of the party's primary system, in a race with many more Democratic candidates than Republicans, the top two vote-getters could be Republicans, even if Democratic candidates collectively receive much more support.
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But rural South Louisiana is more Catholic, the accent is like nothing else (as anyone knows listening to the L.S.U. football coach Ed Orgeron on Saturdays) and the politics has tended more Democratic.
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"If that progress could have been maintained, and without ... famines and repeated invasion by foreign enemies, we think Russia would be more populous, more wealthy and more democratic than it is today," he said.
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Its voters have shown that they don't just follow the prevailing national winds — they're more willing to give little-known and poorly funded challengers a chance, which helps ensure a more democratic contest overall.
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Alleged theft of congressional equipment, massive data breaches of Congress members' emails, likely espionage and more are all wrapped up in this case that involves data from 40 or more Democratic members of Congress.
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Ending the special relationship with Saudi Arabia is exactly the kind of foreign policy fight progressives should embrace, and it would fit clearly into a vision of a more democratic, egalitarian, and just world.
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Is it more democratic to rely on a three year old vote based on what an idealized Brexit might offer, or to have a vote based on what we know it does actually entail?
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Gif courtesy of Homestuck In the early 00s, we were told the internet was the future, that with its advent we glimpsed the beginnings of a better, more accessible, more democratic world of tomorrow.
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Martin O'Malley of Maryland, who has argued most strenuously for more Democratic debates, is at risk of not qualifying for the next one under criteria laid out by NBC, the network hosting the Jan.
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"The formation of this government must answer to the will of the people and move the country towards a more democratic direction," Sudarat Keyuraphan, the party's candidate for prime minister told a news conference.
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Chakrabarti says he's hopeful that "a more connected world can be a more democratic one," meaning Facebook sees its open platform as a net win for democracy, despite issues of misinformation and platform abuse.
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There's a reason Clinton's campaign decided to embrace four more Democratic debates: She's a bare-knuckle brawler, and she's not going to lose the nomination because she wasn't willing to hit Sanders hard enough.
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In a step towards making live air pollution air data more democratic, IndiaSpend partnered with Twitter India to let users get real-time data on air pollution in their neighbourhood with just a tweet.
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Its voters have shown that they don't just follow the prevailing national winds — they're more willing to give little-known and poorly-funded challengers a chance, which helps ensure a more democratic contest overall.
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Costello noted that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that redrew his district, in a move Republicans believe will make the district more Democratic, was also part of the reason he decided to leave Congress.
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Sheldon Cohen, a retired counselor who lives in Hopewell Junction, New York, used ActBlue to donate to more Democratic candidates than he can remember -- sending $10 or $25 at a time to Texas Rep.
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The people and leaders of the Middle East are the ones who brought about the Arab Spring and its aftermath, first raising hopes for more democratic societies and then leaving the region in turmoil.
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In Massachusetts, for example, Voters Choice MA may put ranked-choice voting—a method that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference to ensure more democratic results—on the ballot in 2020.
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"I personally am convinced that when you have to lobby a constituency rather than an elected office you will on average get more democratic and consensual outcomes," Casas told me on a phone call.
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But thanks to reform-minded candidates willing to challenge powerful incumbents, and voters willing to show up to the polls to support them, New York is a little more democratic than it was yesterday.
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"More Democratic elected officials should be talking about God, and their own personal religious beliefs," said Representative Ted Lieu of California, a vice chairman for the D.C.C.C. who has informally advised Vote Common Good.
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For many of those taking to the streets, their actions are seen as central to protecting Hong Kong's surviving civil liberties, as well as keeping open the hope of future and more democratic reform.
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And like suburbs across the country, the areas surrounding Charlotte have seen an influx of new residents from more Democratic-leaning areas in recent years that could give McCready a boost at the polls.
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Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this summer advanced a bill that would fine drugmakers that hike prices above inflation rates, but from the start it had more Democratic support than Republican backing.
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Depending on whom you ask, the new method of voting, which allows voters to rank their candidates from favorite to least favorite, is either a push toward a more democratic system or a logistical hellscape.
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Compared with Mrs Clinton's performance in 2016, the average rural House district was eight points more Democratic this year, compared with a five-point Democratic outperformance in suburban districts and three points in urban seats.
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"All of this might lead to an early electorate that is even more Democratic and more diverse than in the Obama elections — but all of this is contingent on all kinds of assumptions, " Gronke said.
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For Banda, who initially worked his way from an internship to a full-time position at OryLab, OriHime has levelled his experience of the workplace, making it a more democratic space where all can participate.
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According to Catalist, a data company, compared to the 2014 election, the 18-29 age group was 24 points more Democratic; college-educated voters swung 27 points to the left while Hispanics moved 16 points.
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Ranked-choice advocates say this is simply a more democratic system and less expensive than runoff elections, which have to be held separately and typically have very low turnout (case in point: the Texas runoff).
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Toomey still faces a tough battle in a more Democratic-leaning state, but a contested Democratic primary gives him time to prepare and raise money before a general election battle is in full force. 22019.
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These landmark votes invoking the War Powers Act of 1973 are a structural shift, restoring the promise of Congress's power to both end Yemen's nightmare and spur a more democratic America that deters future war.
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Students occupied Tiananmen Square after the April 1989 death of Hu Yaobang, a reformist party leader who had been sidelined, and their protests evolved into a passionate movement for cleaner government and more democratic rights.
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Overperformance by African-Americans — in an election decided by about 22018,303 votes — amounted to 230,247 more Democratic votes than would have been cast had African-Americans been just 25 percent of the that side's total.
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"All of this might lead to an early electorate that is even more Democratic and more diverse than in the Obama elections — but all of this is contingent on all kinds of assumptions," Gronke said.
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So there would have been a certain amount of pride and maybe people thinking they could do this too, so maybe you would have more Democratic women stepping forward because she provided that role model.
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The protests, which became known as the Umbrella Movement, galvanized the city and sought to force Hong Kong's top official to step down and the government to accept more democratic means to elect future leaders.
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To build on the pro-European backlash against Trump and Brexit by forging, with President Emmanuel Macron of France, a more dynamic, more democratic, more integrated, more self-sufficient European Union for the 21st century.
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If those structures become hostile to democracy — or if they tend to cement a minority faction in power — a difficult amendment process prevents the nation from replacing those flawed structures with a more democratic system.
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They saw D.C. statehood as a power grab by the Democrats that would result in having one more Democratic member in the U.S. House and, even worse, the eventual election of two additional Democratic senators.
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Reproducing the original pages but substituting his own text, Mokgosi tells the story of a Black minority in an imaginary postcolonial African country attempting to impose its rule over a more democratic and revolutionary populace.
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"In an election cycle like this, there is nothing that will cause more Democratic bedwetting than having a lot of candidates," said Jesse Ferguson, a former top aide to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
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Two of the others, Robert Wittman and David Brat, said they had legal standing to bring the case because their chances of re-election would be reduced by having more Democratic voters in their districts.
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A variety of research has found that women interrupt less (but are interrupted more), pay closer attention to other people's nonverbal cues and use a more democratic leadership style compared with men's more autocratic style.
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Senate Democrats step closer to having enough votes to block a confirmation vote on Trump's Supreme Court nominee with three more Democratic senators coming out against Neil Gorsuch for the lifetime job as a justice.
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Software products would be more powerful, more accessible, and more democratic—Twitter, for example, would look a lot different today if it had been built by people for whom online harassment is a real-life concern.
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There are some very real trends making Texas more Democratic, but nobody (including Davis's campaign) really thought abortion was the best issue — as opposed to Medicaid expansion, say, or school funding — for Texas Democrats to highlight.
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To become governor, Stacey Abrams hopes to get more Democratic voters to turn out than ever before — especially black, Latino, and younger voters who are less likely to turn out in midterm elections without significant investments.
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Washington (CNN)Bernie Sanders and his top staff are looking to build on his momentum with a simple argument: The more Democratic voters get to know him, the more they will hop on board with him.
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During that election cycle, the Democratic National Committee instituted new rules that transferred some power away from party bosses and into the hands of rank-and-file voters through a more democratic and universal primary system.
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If his image does not improve among Latinas, he will find it difficult to carry swing states with larger Hispanic populations such as Florida and Colorado, let alone more Democratic-leaning states such as New Mexico.
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"For young people who are in particular predisposed to be more Democratic, their hatred of both parties is significant, and it appears likely to lead to greater disengagement from politics," said Matt Canter, a Democratic pollster.
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In taking up the fight against the system, those of us who have been left behind by establishment politics — or the Good Old Boys Club — found a way to make the party of democracy more democratic.
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"They're sort of taking this more democratic view, this more down-to-earth view, talking about where people are," rather than possibly alienating potential customers by depicting an affluent lifestyle that many people feel is unattainable.
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This was the second time that Jurvetson, who has told reporters that her priority is helping more Democratic women win elections, had done a favor for Warren that clashed with the senator's stated campaign finance ethos.
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Elsewhere, Elena Schneider and Heather Caygle of Politico explain why more Democratic candidates are disavowing Pelosi, and Bernstein, in that Bloomberg piece, argues Pelosi should stay but her 78-year-old deputy, Steny Hoyer, should go.
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"Because it's becoming more diverse it's becoming more Democratic, because the Democratic Party is more inclusive," said Gil Cisneros, a Democrat from Yorba Linda who captured a House seat held by Representative Ed Royce, a Republican.
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Stevens lay, quite literally, on his deathbed as he was carted into the Senate during the weeks of the trial, trying to see through his vision of creating a more democratic and less racist American republic.
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If this new cold war comes to an end with a Putin-Trump alliance, it will do so on Russia's terms, with Russia no more democratic and the United States becoming a little more like Russia.
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Though it's still common sense to think of design as an essentially private, commercial profession involved in styling products for consumers, during World War II, designers found new, more democratic techniques and means for their work.
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So might Hallam's plan to replace the government with a Citizens' Assembly, a group of randomly selected citizens, which he argues would be more democratic and more responsive to the climate crisis than the status quo.
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It's not a popular view among the liberal Democratic base, but Biden is banking on the idea that there are a lot more Democratic voters in the party than just the most activist and loudest liberals.
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Washington (CNN)Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday it was up to each individual senator to decide whether to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration this week -- leaving the door open to potentially more Democratic protest.
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Up until the time that President Trump took office, we went by this policy of economic engagement thinking that if we simply engaged with China, they would become more democratic and peaceful and more free market oriented.
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Again, given that there is a strong relationship between educational attainment and liberal values, especially in recent years, it might not be surprising that wealthy elites have become more Democratic-leaning as they've become more highly educated.
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Over the two and a half centuries since, we've grown more democratic, expanding the franchise to women and people of color and instituting the direct election of senators by popular vote (the 17th amendment, ratified in 1913).
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At trial, Ginsberg described Olangian as having been active in protests against the Iranian government during his U.S. college studies and said he had moved back to Iran when it appeared the country might become more democratic.
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And O'Rourke, who has been running a campaign more about mobilizing Democratic voters than persuading moderate Republicans to support him, has bet that the more people who vote in Texas, the more Democratic the state will become.
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By supporting academic freedom as a universal commitment, U.S. leaders can make a small contribution toward a more democratic discourse in the Middle East and uphold a basic value too often taken for granted in the West.
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What most mayors have yet to realise, however, is how much their administrations will have to change to be able to get the best out of these data—and use them to make their cities more democratic.
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The NBC/Marist poll is among all registered voters -- a group that tends to lean a little more Democratic than the actual electorate because core Democratic groups turn out at slightly lower rates than core Republican groups.
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The groups say that they may be able to pick up more Democratic votes for the TPP by appealing to those who have supported their efforts on tobacco but have been otherwise wary of the broader agreement.
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New York's Hispanic population, with many Dominicans and Puerto Ricans, may be more Democratic than California's Hispanic population, with more who have Mexican ancestry, even though the two states voted for Mr. Obama by fairly similar margins.
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Politically, this person notes, such a move could help the GOP since there are many more Democratic incumbents in tough races up for re-election, and this would effectively keep them in Washington ahead of the midterms.
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At the same time, the number of ballots cast in the Arizona special election in Republican-leaning precincts was higher relative to the number of ballots cast in 2016 presidential election, than in the more Democratic precincts.
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Recognizing that the participation gap is part of what has kept states like Texas from becoming more Democratic — despite a voting age population that is 183 percent Hispanic — Democrats in Arizona have undertaken an aggressive registration drive.
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It's possible, for instance, that Klobuchar's hypothetical smaller-scale health care push could hold on to more Democratic votes than Medicare for All—but there is no sense that it would win any more votes from Republicans.
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Fashion is more democratic and more popular than ever before, and yet the industry's problems can be summed up by the simple fact that you can't buy a swimsuit in summer or a heavy coat in winter.
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More Democratic voters than Republicans have cast ballots ahead of next month's primary elections in Texas, in what some party officials interpret as a new sign that a blue wave is building ahead of the midterm elections.
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But the draw is that a direct listing is seen as more democratic — after all, anyone can buy shares — and reduces the cut of Wall Street banks, which some say have too much influence in the process.
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Butler County Armstrong County Beaver County Allegheny County Pittsburgh Washington County Westmoreland County 22016 miles Fayette County PENNSYLVANIA Shift in margin from 22020 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 30 10 10 30 20163 pct. pts.
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The result is a fair that feels less groomed, more democratic and global — something of a relief — especially in its lively Spotlight section, where dealers have devoted solo shows to neglected postwar artists from around the world.
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This hints, Mr. Ziblatt said, at a possible factor in populism's Western rise that is receiving growing attention among scholars: A wave of modern reforms that made democracies more democratic may have also eroded those internal checks.
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That initiative, which was thrown out in court, was seen as one of the critical reasons for the party's decline, as the Latino population in this state has continued to grow, and as California became more Democratic.
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What we know is that a new map is likely to include at least a few districts that are more Democratic-leaning or competitive, and that the Philadelphia suburbs are dense[ly populated] and have contorted districts.
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But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned this week that both bills, in addition to funding for the Department of Homeland Security and military construction, won't make it through the upper chamber without satisfying more Democratic priorities.
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Republican states rely more heavily on federal dollars as a share of their budgets than do more Democratic states, largely because Southern states, especially, are more likely to have a higher percentage of residents living in poverty.
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He writes: First, most generic polls are polls of registered voters, but special election voters aren't the same as all the registered voters nationwide; according to the current numbers, they're likely about 10 points more Democratic-leaning.
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Competitors for the University of Pennsylvania's ICONOCLAST Design Competition were asked to design a post-apocalyptic Central Park after a fictional eco-terrorist attack left "Bill Di Blastoff" looking for a more democratic, ecological, and beautiful plan.
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Labour lawmakers are trying to broker a deal for Corbyn to step down in exchange for his successor pledging to retain some of his key policies on tackling inequality and making the party more democratic, the BBC reported.
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Benn promised plenty of "industrial democracy" and a five-year plan, but Corbyn also promises "more democratic ownership structures", a vast extension of workers' rights, a new ministry of labour and an industrial strategy (properly, unlike the Tories).
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You can either think of it as Apple's revolutionary gadget that redefined an industry and most of our lives, or you can deem it to be the overhyped foam atop the more democratic and important Google Android wave.
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Many Republicans who are leaving the House of Representatives in the new year have come down with senioritis, and their absences may mean that a spending bill will have to attract more Democratic support in the lower chamber.
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Clinton's decision not to push for more Democratic debates, or to shift them from weekends when audiences would be smaller, also could have hurt her cause, since the former secretary of state has excelled on stage so far.
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Obama's outreach to countries such as Cuba and Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, was part of a strategy of opening up those regimes to global economic and cultural forces that, he hoped, would lead to more democratic regimes.
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In opening TTIP text, Obama would take a valuable first step in boosting both his trade legacy and his open government legacy, while paving the way for a more democratic model of trade engagement for generations to come.
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What was once considered only a progressive talking point has gained traction as more Democratic candidates have been willing to embrace government-funded healthcare on the campaign trail and more House members have been signing onto the idea.
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The protests that broke out that September in favor of more democratic election procedures became known as the Umbrella Movement, for the umbrellas protesters employed as shields against the tear gas and pepper spray used by the police.
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Trump's white identity politics and violent rhetoric has accelerated a long-running education divide in American politics: White voters with at least a college degree are becoming more Democratic, and white voters without such degrees are trending Republican.
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Demonic Resurrection began as a dictatorship, with Makhija responsible for composing every element of each song, before evolving into a more democratic setup; after that, he decided to take his spare ideas and work on a solo project.
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VICE journalist Sebastian Weiss met with the international volunteers trying to halt the advance of the Islamic State and help build a more democratic society in the Syrian villages just 30 miles from the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.
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DeRozan was once again unhappy with his ranking from Sports Illustrated, and now he'll look to turn the conversation about his potential as a playmaker and functional part of a more democratic offense on its head in response.
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The Democratic presidential nominee has won the state eight straight times and, as the Almanac of American Politics notes, the state has voted more Democratic than the country as a whole in each of the last four elections.
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There is now a sense that "the country is not necessarily moving in a more democratic direction," Welsh continued, referring to the rise of complex identity politics, reports of ethnic cleansing and the military's continued grip on power.
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In a way, you could say this is more democratic because it opens the door to more people, but it can also be deeply problematic because it paves the way for illiberal forces who then attack democratic institutions.
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What to watch: Demographics are shifting in states like Florida, Texas and Arizona, which have seen an influx of Latinos who tend to skew more Democratic and are more likely to be undercounted by the census, Frey said.
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I would like to go back to old" — and I won't call the name of the State; it wasn't Louisiana and it wasn't Texas — "I would like to go back down there and make them one more Democratic speech.
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Because the more development that happens in the way that is more open, where the research is more open, where people have the– where the policymaking around it is more democratic, I think that that's going to be positive.
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The poll suggests the debate audience was a bit more Democratic than the public as a whole, about on par with the Democratic tilt in the audience that watched the first debate in 2008 between Obama and John McCain.
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The goal, Schwartz said, is to provide "a more democratic way of looking at publishing," where any member of the community could potentially contribute their opinions and expertise without having to go through a complicated pitching and editorial process.
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It s not more democratic, there are still no free elections, but you re no longer jailed if you step inside a church, have a private bookstore or attend an embassy party where artists and intellectuals now find refuge.
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As global attention has shifted from nuclear negotiations to enforcement of the agreement on Iran's nuclear program, the United States should not downgrade its focus on supporting the majority of Iranian people who aspire for a more democratic country.
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Rather than attempting a court-based solution to gerrymandering that will inevitably spawn more grievances than it resolves, I vote to leave the search for the Holy Grail of electoral fairness to the messy but more democratic legislative process.
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His biggest philanthropic endeavor, the Open Society Foundations, played a leading role in supporting the transition from Communism to more democratic societies in parts of the former Soviet Union and then expanded to protect democratic practices in existing democracies.
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I would have announced a plan to register one million more Democratic voters in swing districts and states and created an all-night telethon where people could call in or email in donations to pay for that registration drive.
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And ahead of California's earlier-than-usual primary in March, expect more Democratic presidential candidates to try and draw a connection between their theoretical, abstract objections to tech's power and the very real impacts on the Bay Area economy.
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Republicans are widely opposed to the proposal because of concerns that D.C. statehood would result in two more Democratic senators — given the left-leaning nature of the diverse city — as well as questions over political corruption in D.C. politics.Rep.
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Michal Rosenoer, who on nonpowder days is the executive director of Emerge Colorado, a group that works to elect more Democratic women to public office, said the roads were already jammed when she left home at 5:30 a.m.
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Similarly, the Republican-drawn map for the Fifth Congressional District, where one plaintiff in the case lives, packed the district with more Democratic voters than would be found in that plaintiff's district in any of Dr. Chen's simulated maps.
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These proposals come in many flavors, but two common strains are making the party more democratic (opening up nominating processes, disempowering elite superdelegates, etc.) and turning away from "identity politics" (offering more "universal" proposals rather than appealing to subgroups of voters).
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Empowered by access to social media sites like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, protesters organized across the Middle East, starting in December 2010 in Tunisia, and gathered together to speak out against oppression, inspiring hope for a better, more democratic future.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats on Friday stepped closer to having enough votes to block a confirmation vote on President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee with three more Democratic senators coming out against Neil Gorsuch for the lifetime job as a justice.
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Graphic by Sarah MacReading/VICE News Some argue that caucuses, which are run by state parties, are a more democratic way of choosing a nominee than primaries, which are conducted by secret ballot and run and funded by state governments.
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The poll suggested the debate audience was a bit more Democratic than the public as a whole, about on par with the Democratic tilt in the audience that watched the first debate in 2008 between Barack Obama and John McCain.
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Meredith Whittaker: We need representation and we need to begin ... You know, if we're such a novel and creative company, if we're gonna stand before the hype, then let's figure out a way to make these decisions more democratic, more deliberative.
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Countries such as China and Iran have long kept tight control over online media, but human rights and internet activists say that many more democratic governments are now using internet cutoffs to stifle free speech under the guise of fighting terrorism.
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Notably, if the Pennsylvania redistricting lawsuit is successful, this district is almost guaranteed to get about 4 to 5 points more Democratic as the Lehigh Valley (Lehigh, Northampton, and Carbon counties) is almost perfectly sized to be a single congressional district.
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But there are so many more Democratic women than Republican women -- so the effect is striking -- normally the Democratic side of the chamber is a relative riot of color -- now, you can spot the GOP women easily, most in red.
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Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota all vote on June 7, the last big Tuesday on the presidential primary calendar that includes the critical state of California, with many times more Democratic delegates than all three Western states put together.
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His action was hailed as a victory for enfranchisement but prompted a backlash from Republicans, who accused the governor of overstepping his Constitutional authority as part of a political gambit to get more Democratic voters to the polls in November.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The euro zone needs its own budget, a fully-fledged banking union and more democratic accountability in its decision-making to reverse the economic divergence that is fuelling populist movements, European Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said on Thursday.
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If other GOP senators, several of whom have said they remain on the fence, decide to oppose Haspel, or McCain returns from Arizona, where he is being treated for brain cancer, she will need to pick up more Democratic support. Sen.
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The former Georgia secretary of state continues to expand her lead in Cobb and Fulton Counties, meaning that Ossoff needs to pull closer in those counties and dominate in more Democratic-leaning DeKalb County to have a chance of winning.
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Professor Patrick Egan of NYU traced the New York Times/Siena College district polls and shows that polls conducted over the last week have been more Democratic compared to the district's partisan baseline than polls taken earlier in the campaign.
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While John McCain and Mitt Romney won the district narrowly in 2008 and 2012, the district is more Democratic than those toplines make it appear —McCain had a home-state advantage and Romney benefited from strong Mormon turnout in Arizona.
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Activists emphasize, however, that proposals like eliminating the filibuster, ending gerrymandering, and reforming the judiciary would not just build more Democratic power, it would also enfranchise more voters and make our counter-majoritarian institutions better reflect the will of the majority.
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But progressives — who have the most to lose if the Senate becomes an even larger obstacle to their preferred policies — have started to brainstorm about reforms that might make the Senate more democratic and representative without changing the Constitution itself.
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In Boone, a town of about 12,500 people, a 43-year-old Iowan, Chris Bennett, asked Ms. Gillibrand to say what separated her most from what could be a sprawling field of two dozen or more Democratic candidates in 2020.
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A pivotal and polarizing figure was the eccentric journalist Charles Lummis, who held the title of City Librarian in the early 20th century, pulling off the neat trick of making the library "more democratic and yet more sophisticated" at once.
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As Vox's Ella Nilsen previously explained: Ranked-choice advocates say this is simply a more democratic system and less expensive than runoff elections, which have to be held separately and typically have very low turnout (case in point: the Texas runoff).
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Cornyn told repoters earlier Thursday that he was optimistic he would be able to pick up more Democratic support next week, because he isn't including a provision that would have cracked down on cities that don't support federal immigration laws.
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" But responding to an article in The New York Times, which suggested that blogging might be making book reviewing more democratic, he wrote in The Los Angeles Times in 2007: "Criticism — and its humble cousin, reviewing — is not a democratic activity.
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This week, Uber and Hyundai create a new air taxi prototype, an unlikely figure helped make the Met Museum more democratic, another look at Leonardo's role in "Salvator Mundi," a list of Black artists and writers in Appalachia, and more.
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But any such endeavor also requires heavy investments of private capital, which again becomes a far more plausible prospect if there is a new, more democratic workplace, or one that is guided by real worker voices and real worker participation.
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Last week's installation of an all-powerful new legislative body run by leftist President Nicolas Maduro's Socialist Party loyalists, despite massive protests and a global outcry, has left many Venezuelans feeling there are no more democratic options to oppose the government.
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"One of the key reasons why Tunisia was able to transition into a more democratic and more inclusive social contract is that it is not as involved in the geopolitical context as other countries that saw uprisings," said Royal Holloway's Halawi.
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Kyle: There will probably be a few more Democratic defectors than Peterson and Van Drew, but not many — anyone who voted to open the inquiry is already on the hook politically so there's not much to be gained from reversing course.
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Had the state used proportional representation, the results would have been an equal nine to nine split in 2628, and 28503 Republicans and eight Democrats in 22019 and 2106 — four and three more Democratic seats, respectively, than actually were awarded.
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While there has been no evidence that foreign governments orchestrated the protests, several countries are now trying to decide how to support a goal they share with many of the demonstrators: a less corrupt, more democratic and more open Iranian government.
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"When you go down to four, three and two, you get more democratic brands," said Kenneth A. Himmel, the president and chief executive of Related Urban, a division of Related Companies, which also developed the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle.
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Essentially, this is a measure of the underlying presidential-level partisanship of each district, based on the past two elections — it measures how much more Democratic or Republican each district voted in presidential elections compared to the nation as a whole.
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But that's the logic of both her specific proposal on rural America and also her broader thinking on corporate power — that in the long run, a more democratic economy will serve society's interests better than a narrow focus on consumer prices.
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Officials tried hard, however, to make this election appear more democratic than previous ones (when Mrs Lam takes over on July 1st she will be the territory's fourth leader since the former colony was handed back to China by Britain in 1997).
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" It echoed comments from MDC spokesman Daniel Molokele, who said: "There is a determined effort by the regime to ensure that there is no more democratic space ... It clearly shows that the new government is even worse than that of Robert Mugabe.
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The MPAA and RIAA have tried to argue that by making the new Register of Copyright an office approved by the Senate, that will make it more democratic, where anyone can weigh in on the appointment and influence the Senate's confirmation process.
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But the Senate map was very skewed — involving not only many races in deep-red states, but simply many more Democratic-held seats than GOP-held ones — so Republicans gained two net seats even while receiving many fewer votes than the other party.
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The campaign is part of an effort by the wind industry to appeal to what it believes to be the values that President Trump and Republicans in Congress hold dear, like jobs and rural America, above more Democratic values like mitigating climate change.
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But over the last year — and especially over the last four months — a new craze has overtaken some influential subsets of the technology industry's powerbrokers: What if companies had a more democratic, transparent and faster way to fundraise by using digital currency?
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Arguably, a more democratic system would be for each state to allocate electors on the basis of the popular vote in the state, so a candidate who gets 50.7 percent of Florida's two-party presidential vote would get 15 of Florida's 29 electors.
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SS: It's an Islamic totalitarian regime — and it's similar to our government in a lot of ways, though we definitely are more democratic — so all of the people who are in positions of power are religious clerks, and they have access to funds.
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Because more Democratic candidates than GOP candidates are running in several competitive districts, Democrats are worried that the party could get locked out of the top two in as many as three districts they otherwise believe are winnable in November's midterm elections.
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But we've heard these promises before; what Europeans expect now is change in how the E.U. operates, with more democratic accountability, greater flexibility on helping countries struggling with debt, and a recognition that what works for some countries may not work for all.
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The voters lived in "seven apartment buildings built in 2016 in a fast-growing area outside the gates of Joint Base Eustis, an Army installation" and a majority had "voted since 2008 exclusively in one or more Democratic primaries," according to the Post.
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The meeting between Mr. Kerry and Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was a milestone in one of the Obama administration's biggest foreign policy experiments: to coax isolated, longtime adversaries into engaging with the United States and gradually moving toward more democratic governance.
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That emerging image of America will affect US influence in the world, eroding its strategic positing and diminishing the strength of American values, weakening those fighting to create more democratic societies where they live and simultaneously strengthening the hand of America's authoritarian rivals.
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The campaign is part of an effort by the wind industry to appeal to what it believes to be the values that Trump and Republicans in Congress hold dear, like jobs and rural America, above more Democratic values like mitigating climate change.
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Vice President Mike Pence will follow the European Union's lead this afternoon and ask Venezuela to postpone its presidential election, scheduled for May 20, in the hopes that more time will allow for a freer and more democratic voting process, reports Bloomberg.
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So far, four Republicans have announced they will not seek re-election in highly competitive districts (with a Cook Partisan Voter Index of Republican+5 or more Democratic; the Cook P.V.I. measures district partisanship based on its vote in recent presidential elections).
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"[The concept] was to bring together a group of people outside of these walls with the expertise, knowledge, and purpose to really make consequential decisions in a way that was more democratic than what was currently happening inside the company," she says.
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Patricio for president, have given hope to some disenfranchised Mexicans that the way they are governed can be different, and better, with a more democratic system free of the deal-making and patronage politics that exist on practically every level of government.
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And there is most likely no more democratic fishing spot in America — a place where any Alaska resident, from an oil company executive to a carwash attendant, can fill a freezer with premium salmon for only the cost of gas and gear.
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"But I am aware that Europe will only be able to continue going forward if we deeply reform it to make it more sovereign, more democratic, closer to our fellow citizens and therefore simpler in its day-to-day life," Mr. Macron said.
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But Healy noted that Republican-leaning Native Americans tend to turn out to the polls in higher numbers without the help of a get-out-the-vote program, suggesting that the group's efforts may end up turning out more Democratic-leaning voters.
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In a letter to acting DHS Secretary Chad WolfChad WolfTrump courts new controversy with travel ban expansion Democrats press Trump administration to stop DNA collection from detained migrants Trump administration installs plaque marking finish of 100 miles of border wall MORE, Democratic Reps.
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We have never been better equipped to take on the challenges we face, and we could create much more democratic, decentralized and decarbonized energy systems for the future while lifting up to a billion people out of energy poverty in the process.
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While she may be wrong on college for all, at least she's out there proposing a more democratic workplace, which is the only viable way to open up the Knowledge Economy to the members of the white working class who went for Trump.
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As I wrote about earlier this week, more Democratic voters this year say the ability for a candidate to beat the other party's candidate is more important than agreeing with a candidate on the issues than in any cycle since at least 2004.
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But it is Mr. Schultz's possible path as a moderate independent outside the two-party system that has drawn the most attention — and criticism by some Democrats who said they feared that a Schultz candidacy could siphon off more Democratic voters than Republicans.
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Democrats—especially if they are white, millennial, and postgrad—are increasingly likely to call themselves liberals: In 2015, more Democratic voters identified as liberals (42%) than as moderates (38%) or conservatives (17%), based on an average of Pew Research Center political surveys conducted last year.
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Four more Democratic senators added their support to a growing effort to block a confirmation vote through the use of a procedural hurdle called a filibuster that requires 60 votes in the 100-seat Senate to allow a confirmation vote requiring a simple majority.
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An accomplished sailor and founder of Lending Club, Mr. Laplanche was hosting executives from hedge funds, Goldman Sachs and other banks — part of his effort to win over Wall Street on his plans to upend traditional banking with a faster, more democratic form of lending.
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Reading the memoir, one gets the impression that its author longs for the heyday of Obama's early presidency, when more Democratic politicians tiptoed around Wall Street investors, when Joel Klein ran New York City's education department, when Waiting for Superman was making a splash.
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The only state in which white women didn't stay the same or become more Democratic was Georgia, where white women have been moving towards Republicans since 2014 -- voting for Republican Nathan Deal by 41 percentage points over Democrat Jason Carter in the gubernatorial election.
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While protesters are still calling for Lam's ouster and more democratic freedoms, one of the leaders of the pro-democracy Civil Human Rights Front told American news media that the group was working hard to ensure that the demonstrations would once again be peaceful.
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Conservatives, however, have been able to get more Democratic support over the last few weeks by including language that creates more opportunities for prisoners to earn time credits, limiting the use of restraints on pregnant women and requiring prison guards to receive de-escalation training.
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In Russia, Vladimir Putin has suppressed political competition, a nascent independent media, and any hope for an independent judiciary or legislature while managing to convince millions of his countrymen that the United States is hypocritical and immoral, no more democratic than any other country.
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Mr. de Blasio announced in his State of the City address last month that he planned to name a charter review commission to look at ways to improve campaign finance laws and take other steps to make elections more democratic, and encourage participation among voters.
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The first of Pedrosa's books to be published in English, it explores the lives of three generations of women in a wealthy Lisbon family, following them from the regime of the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar in the 1930s to the more democratic 1990s.
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Five more Democratic senators who earlier voted against floor debate on it indicated this week that they're still assessing their positions ahead of Wednesday's briefing: Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Bill Nelson of Florida, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and Doug Jones of Alabama.
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According to a tally of statewide and congressional races kept by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers, so far more Democratic women than Republican ones are running for state and congressional seats in Arizona, but Republican women remain formidable in the state.
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The group will also focus on states represented by conservative-state Democrats including Montana, Missouri and Alabama, as well as more Democratic-leaning states such as Minnesota, Colorado and Michigan where Senate Democrats tend to back more Trump nominees than those from other blue states.
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The protests, which started in June as a response to a proposed law that would have allowed the extradition of local criminals to mainland China – effectively diminishing Hong Kong's autonomy – have since escalated to include a general call for a more democratic form of governance.
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The lower Democratic spending was in part because the party is gearing up for dozens of races in districts with a recent history of voting more Democratic in presidential races this fall -- and in part because they didn't need to spend money to back Lamb.
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