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Why is there no push towards an American ID card?
There has been a debate in the US regarding voter ID. Republicans seem to not trust voters who do not have them, and Democrats argue that IDs should not be necessary to vote since there are several demographic groups in the US who cannot afford an…
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Are there examples of politicians resigning after failing to fulfill an electoral promise?
Politicians love making promises during election campaigns, often with explicit deadlines on when said promise would come to fruition. But are there examples in recent history where a politician (or even an entire party) has resigned after failing…
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How did Alaska "change its primary system recently" and was it "to dilute the possibility of a conservative or Trump-inspired challenger"?
Politico's GOP pushes Murkowski to stay in line against Biden’s Covid bill includes the following:
Murkowski is unique, however, and so is her home of Alaska. The state is suffering economically, the pandemic has exacerbated the state’s woes, and…
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Are political alignments of African or Caribbean black immigrants in line with African-Americans?
Anecdotally, I have found that anyone I personally know who is a first-generation immigrant from either Africa, or non-Hispanic Caribbean (less so) is a lot more likely to be "righter-wing" in their views, especially socially, than African Americans…
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Does freedom of speech mean freedom to mock everything?
It's widely known that in most western countries, it's allowed to mock religion - because of freedom of speech.
Does freedom of speech allow one to mock everything, or are there taboo subjects that cannot be mocked?
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The politicization of the supreme court
It seems that both the Republican and Democratic parties look at the appointment of a Supreme Court Justice as a political move. Optimally, a judge has no part in politics. Their personal opinion should not come into play at all - instead it should…
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Do any Republican Senators oppose replacing Justice Ginsburg on the Supreme Court before the election?
After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death earlier today, Senator McConnell vowed to bring the President's nominee to a vote quickly:
The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said late Friday that he would move forward with President…
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Why do attack ads focus so much on Joe Biden's mental state but not Donald Trump's?
Now the USA has a longstanding tradition of negative campaigning, so it is not surprising when the competence of a political opponent is questioned.
What is surprising however, is that while Democrats (and others) focus on depicting Donald Trump as…
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Is the President of the United States obliged to answer questions in press conferences?
Each time I see a press conference where President Trump is there, the reporters ask questions and he always answers them. Is he forced to do so by any law or something, or does the President just answer because it is part of democracy?
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Why has Turkey "opened the floodgates" for migrants to the EU?
Over the past few days, Turkey has reportedly relaxed restrictions on the movement of migrants travelling through the country into the European Union via the Greek border, allowing the hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers currently within the…
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Why did Bloomberg not run as a Republican?
Bloomberg ran as a Republican for mayor of New York City. His declared goal is to throw Trump out of office.
If this is his primary goal wouldn't it have been better to try to run against him in the Republican primary? If Bloomberg won against…
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What would happen if every state had a law requiring it hold the nations first primary?
Quoting https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/politics/iowa-new-hampshire-primary-monopoly/index.html:
The vote-counting meltdown in Iowa's antiquated and haphazard caucus system -- a process used partly to circumvent New Hampshire's law requiring it to…
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Why does the Senate work such odd hours for Trump's impeachment trial?
The Senate convenes for Trump's impeachment trial at 1pm local time and ends at 9pm local time.
Why these weird hours? The majority of the population I know begins work at around 9am and finish at 5-6pm. It sounds pretty strange to arbitrarily shift…
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Could a Senator commit perjury if they swear the oath at the impeachment trial in the senate?
A Senator is on record of having explicitly stated "I'm not an impartial juror" in regards to the upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate. Another Senator said, "I am trying to give a pretty clear signal I have made up my mind. I'm not trying to…
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Why aren't we seeing carbon taxes in practice?
(I originally posed this question under economics -- https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/33267/why-arent-we-seeing-carbon-taxes-in-practice -- where the consensus seems to be that in principle carbon taxes are a good idea but the stumbling…
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