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2 faced Tony Abbott and the liberals
2 faced Tony Abbott and the liberals.

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Dante Chinni writesPolitics Countsas a regular Capital Journal feature. Mr. Chinni is the director of theAmerican Communities Project at American University, which examines different types of communities across the U.S.

The American electorate is not a stationary thing voters move. And data suggest that as people move, the countrys fastest growing big counties are becoming more politically liberal, particularly in big metro areas in important swing states such as Colorado and North Carolina.

The political impacts of moving populations can be difficult to measure, but they are a hidden force that can remake the electoral map.

So, to better understand those impacts, Politics Counts used survey data fromExperian Marketing Servicesthat shows the ideological makeup of movers compared with the rest of the population for every county in the U.S. whether the movers self-identify as liberal, conservative or middle-of-the-road. We then compared those data to a list of the fastest growing counties in the country of 100,000 people or more from the U.S. Census.

(While this data does not explicitly allow us to measure only movers to new a county, by matching the Experian mover data with data on the fastest-growing big counties, Politics Counts and Experian believe we can create a reasonably reliable metric for seeing how new movers to a county are changing its political leanings.)

The results indicate big counties across the country, particularly in states such as Colorado, North Carolina and Texas, are seeing more liberals moving in. The one big electoral bright spot for conservatives looks to be Florida.

Fastest-Growing Counties

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These accompanying maps let you explore the changes. (Click to zoom and mouse over the counties.) Shading indicates when the movers in a county are more liberal, conservative or middle of the road, than the existing population using Experians indexes higher numbers and darker shading show more change. Counties can have low percentages of liberals or conservatives but still high index scores because the movers are more liberal or conservative than the current population.

Counties Trending Liberal

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CBS: Obamas Sinking Poll Numbers Have Democrats Depressed
CBS: Obama #39;s Sinking Poll Numbers Have Democrats Depressed (September 2, 2014)

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A FUNKY FRIDAY FOR DEMOCRATS Heres a thought experiment: If someone had told you a year ago that the jobs report out today would be miserable, that Americans would be feeling levels of anxiety on national security not seen in years and that the presidents job approval rating would have skidded to 38 percent, how would you have forecast the elections two months away? What if you also knew that Democrats had committed a series of unforced errors, including a senator dropping his candidacy over plagiarism and a star recruit accidentally posting her whole campaign strategy online? What if you also knew that no Republican incumbents had been unseated in primaries? There are plenty of factors to consider, particularly Democratic spending advantages, but today provides a snapshot of a cycle that is tilting out of control for the majority party. Badly. Remember today the next time someone is trying to tell you that the atmosphere this year is anything other than brutal for Democrats.

OBAMACARE HACKED AND STACKED AGAINST DEMOCRATSThe emerging conventional wisdom is that voters are kind of over ObamaCare and that the midterm elections are about other things. But thats sort of like saying that people are over fire being hot: It may not be a surprise anymore but it still matters quite a lot, especially when it flares up. Just consider the news that, true to widespread and oft-repeated warnings, hackers breached the site for the program and that the incursion went undetected for six weeks. The problem is that it comes as a surprise to no one since the administration ignored its own security requirements and plowed ahead with the now infamous launch. President Obamas signature entitlement program has been helped by low expectations following its 2013 crash ObamaCare: Not Dead Yet! but every time Americans are reminded about the botched and bungled implementation, it further hardens opposition to the law. What really matters, though, is whats coming in the two months before the election.

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AUSTIN The numbers are in on a state-issued, free election photo ID card, and Texas Democrats say theyre a sign the state needs to beef up its efforts to reach voters.

In the first 14 months that the card formally known as the Election Identification Certificate has been offered, the state has issued just 279 election IDs.

That number represents practically zero percent of the estimated 1.3 million registered voters who dont have a drivers license and are in need of a photo ID to vote under state law, 10 Senate Democrats said in a letter this week to Texas Secretary of State Nandita Berry, whose office oversees elections.

Texas Democrats say theyre worried about how many registered voters will be barred from voting in November. With federal, state and county offices on the ballot, its the highest-interest election yet since the law requiring photo ID took effect.

Alicia Pierce, a spokeswoman for Berry, says in the statewide elections held since the vote went into effect, the agency didnt see any widespread problems.

The states voter ID law is on trial in a federal court in Corpus Christi. Republicans contend it is needed to prevent voter fraud. The U.S. Department of Justice, state civil rights groups and Democratic lawmakers say the law is discriminatory to minorities who are less likely to own a drivers license.

The same barriers that prevented these Texans from obtaining a driver's license or ID card before the bill are the same barriers that persist under the lesser-known [certificate] program, Sen. Carlos Uresti, D-San Antonio, said in a written statement.

The certificate provision was added to the law as Democrats complained about possible disenfranchisement. It allows for a free ID card for voting only, but Democrats have complained of hurdles to getting the ID.

They include the travel to a state office, having to take time off from work to get an ID, and documents to prove citizenship. Birth certificates can cost $42, a sizable chunk of some Texans monthly income, plaintiffs have argued in the trial.

The EIC effort needs to be more targeted in identifying these Texans to ensure we havent taken away their right to vote, he said.

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