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Bill PrescottJuly 14, 2015

The Florida Supreme Court has ruled the state’s congressional maps don’t meet requirements of a voter-approved constitutional amendment prohibiting political lines drawn to favor incumbents or political parties. The court ordered the Legislature to redraw the maps These are 10 big questions looming over Florida politics: 1. Will the Legislature appeal? USFSP political science emeritus […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 7, 2015

With convening of the 114th Congress and the swearing in this week of new governors and state representatives, the GOP on paper is sitting very pretty in the Capitol and the nation’s statehouses. Republicans now hold majorities in both the U.S. House and the Senate. They also hold 32 governorships (that included winning 4 new […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 2, 2014

A bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill passed the U.S. Senate almost eight month ago. An identical bill, H.R. 15, has been sitting in the House of Representatives for more than four months and has 195 co-sponsors — a sponsor from every state in the Union. Despite widespread support in the House, Speaker John Boehner is […]

Guest AuthorOctober 14, 2013

I truly do not understand the reasons behind the current shutdown of our government. It seems that the only species that actually attacks one of their own is man, but that usually involves crime and war. So are the Republicans in the House at war with the people in the United States? It seems that […]

Daniel TilsonOctober 10, 2013

Now that President Obama has rightfully rejected the “deal” offered by House Tea Partiers — a six-week debt ceiling extension in exchange for presidential “negotiation” (give-ins) to get them to reopen the government — the two-ton elephant in the national living room remains their unwillingness to admit the shutdown hand they’ve played has failed, and […]

Julie DelegalOctober 3, 2013

“How did conservatives get this radical?” That’s the title of a recent New York Times Opinionator blog — one that’s chock-full of cutting-edge voter psychology research. The older, more basic poli-psych concepts, however, like normativism, humanism, religiosity, and punitivism might shed light on some of today’s conservative voters and politicians. These ideas shed light, for […]

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Tabitha Frazier: We need immigration reform that provides path to citizenship

Dava Stein: America is hurting its own

Daniel Tilson: Time to give Tea Party shutdown showboats a time-out

Julie Delegal: The politics of personal resentment