Tag: Partisan Politics
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Lincoln – Pragmatic, persistent, partisan coalition-builder | Tom Cronin
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 161 years ago this week, six days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Lincoln was 56 years old. Lee was 58 years old. Lincoln, generally regarded as our best president, fascinates us still and teaches us still. A valuable new, well-written book has just…
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Keep Colorado out of national partisan power grab | Jimmy Sengenberger
It’s billed as establishing “a level playing field” by “fighting back against Trump’s election-rigging.” But a campaign to get voters to throw out Colorado’s independent redistricting system would do exactly the opposite. The new political committee, Coloradans for a Level Playing Field, wants voters to amend the state constitution to let Democrats who control state…