The New York Times, November 20, 2015 IT is one of the central political puzzles of our time: Parts of the country that depend on the safety-net programs supported by Democrats are increasingly voting for Republicans who favor shredding that net. In his successful bid for the Senate in 2010, the libertarian Rand Paul railed against“intergenerational …
Over the past weeks we asked for input from our supporters regarding the merits of Automatic Voter Registration as a policy to increase voter turnout in the United States. You answered us, and the support for Automatic Voter Registration is overwhelming! 58,316 (89%) of the 65,688 people that took our poll on Automatic Voter Registration …
Progressive Turnout Project received more than 18O,OOO responses to our series of one-question polls on legislative proposals that would increase voter turnout. Here are the responses: 87% support having U.S. citizens automatically registered to vote when they turn 18 years old. 57% support a system of compulsory voting in which participation in elections would be …
Congressional campaigns and outside groups wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on broadcast ads last cycle that did not reach voters in their district, according to Google and the digital firm Targeted Victory. The two companies, which have a stake in seeing political broadcast budgets diminish, plotted broadcast ad spending in every congressional district from …
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