by jpitney | Feb 28, 2023 | Congress, House of Representatives
From FairVote: (h/t Jacoc Smagula) Out of the 435 U.S. House elections in 2022, five out of every six races were decided by more than 10 percentage points. The average margin of victory for winners in contested elections was 27 percentage points. And that’s not...
by jpitney | Feb 27, 2023 | Biden, Bipartisanship, China, Congress
Joan E Greve and Lauren Gambino at The Guardian (h/t Jacob Smagula):: In the weeks since the US military shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have spoken passionately about the need to more effectively compete...
by jpitney | Feb 26, 2023 | Bipartisanship, Reagan
Joe Concha at MSN: “[Reagan] had a strong set of core values and operated off of those,” GOP strategist and longtime Reagan ally Stuart Spencer told National Public Radio in 2011. “But when push came to shove, he did various things he didn’t like doing, because he...
by jpitney | Feb 24, 2023 | Florida, Journalism, Journalists
The shooting death of Orlando TV reporter Dylan Lyons is part of a pattern. At NYT, Michael Levenson and Christine Chung report: The news of his death on the job punctuated a “new and alarming” increase in threats, harassment, and violence against local reporters in...
by jpitney | Feb 23, 2023 | Crime, Journalism, Journalists
David Harris, Amanda Rabines and Jeff Weiner at the Orlando Sentinel: An Orlando TV journalist and a child were shot and killed on Wednesday evening near a crime scene where a woman was found shot to death earlier in the day, in a brutal spate of violence in Pine...
