Kansas Democrats Telling Their Stories – Video
Kansas Democrats Telling Their Stories
Kansans from all over the state share their stories about why the 2014 election is so important.
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Politico’s Manu Raju: Obama Is A Liability For Democrats In Key Senate Races – Video
Politico #39;s Manu Raju: Obama Is A Liability For Democrats In Key Senate Races
Politico #39;s Manu Raju: Obama Is A Liability For Democrats In Key Senate Races (March 18, 2014)
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Schaer on Importance of Budget Public Hearing Process – Video
Schaer on Importance of Budget Public Hearing Process
In this video press release, Assembly Budget Committee Chairman Gary S. Schaer (D-Passaic) discusses the importance of hearing the public #39;s concerns about st...
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Democrats lean toward building Keystone XL, poll shows
WASHINGTON -- Nearly half of Democrats favor granting a permit for the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
The $5.3-billion pipeline, which would ship oil from Hardisty, Canada, to Steele City, Neb., has undergone five years of reviews to get a presidential permit needed for infrastructure projects that cross a United States border. Environmentalists and some major Democratic donors and activists have opposed the pipeline, contending it would worsen greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change.
President Obama has said he would make a decision on the permit in the coming months. Democratic backing for the project could make it more difficult for Obama to turn down the permit in a difficult election year for the party.
The Pew poll showed that, despite the work of anti-pipeline activists, support for the project has remained solid, especially among Republicans and independents. Backers of the pipeline have argued that it would create jobs and secure more oil from a friendly, democratic country.
Overall, 61% of respondents favor building the pipeline, while 27% are opposed, a proportion that has held steady for the last year or so, according to Pew. About 49% of Democrats back the pipeline and 38% oppose it. The remaining 13% said they did not know.
The poll was conducted from Feb. 27 to March 16 among 3,335 adults.
Previous polls also showed that Democrats backed the project by small margins. But this poll also revealed the demographic lines along which Democratic views on Keystone XL broke down.
Democrats who had a college degree or more education were more likely to oppose it, 47% against the project versus 39% for it. Those with annual household incomes greater than $100,000 were most opposed, at 51%.
Democrats who had some college, a high school diploma or less favored the project. The poorest Democrats, whose annual income was $50,000 or less, favored the project most, at 54%.
Those Democrats who identified as liberals were more prone to be against the project than moderates and conservatives.
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Why Democrats should run on Obamacare: A strategist lays out his case (+video)
Democrats should own Obamacare, not run away from it, because there's plenty there to love, says a veteran Democratic strategist. Even saying 'fix it, don't repeal it,' is too defensive.
Democrats cant run away from Obamacare. They own it. So in the spirit of if you cant beat it, join it, Democrats might do best in the fall midterms by going on offense. And that means touting the popular aspects of the health-care law.
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That, in a nutshell, is the argument of veteran Democratic strategist Robert Shrum, who sees a conventional wisdom setting in that Democrat Alex Sink lost a winnable special House election in Florida last week because of Obamacare. She argued for fixing it, not repealing it.
The thing that worries me, especially after Florida, is that youre going to see Democrats panic, Mr. Shrum tells Politicalwire.com.
Shrum was reacting to a Politico piece that posited post-Florida disarray among Democrats over Obamacare: Some Democrats are criticizing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as not going far enough, and wishing they had gone for a Canadian-style single payer system. Others are rejecting the ACA altogether. The most common critique is Ms. Sinks, that Obamacare contains many worthy features but needs to be tweaked.
Shrum sees a fourth way.
Instead of running away from health reform, they have to run on it in the right way, he writes in The Daily Beast.
And the right way, he says, is to play up all the popular aspects of the law: barring insurers from denying coverage to unhealthy people; a ban on lifetime limits; a ban on charging women more than men; allowing adult children up to age 26 to stay on their parents plan; and enhanced drug coverage for seniors.
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