20% VAT. Privatize Social Security like Australia. Borjas is wrong. Sensible center-left™.
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I finished (most of at least) the precinct map for the 2001 Mississippi flag referendum where on April 17, 2001 a referendum was held in Mississippi to decide if the then confederate flag should replaced with a newer flag. The referendum failed as the existing map got 64.39%.
my current progress so far, it's taking a while cause a) I have to enter by hand each precinct and b) I'm lazy and have other things to do. I am about half way done
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Brightline makes an operating profit, they just couldn't repay their capital construction debt bc they're competing with toll-free highways built with federal cash
After the restructuring relief, Brightline's profitable operating company will continue to profitably operate
Brightline is filing for bankruptcy. While certainly there are policy issues around permitting time and construction costs and EPA rules and the like, fundamentally, Brightline made sense as a rail project. But it's going bankrupt because demand for passenger rail just isn't there.
The reason America doesn't have European railways is because Americans do not actually want them very much.
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Insider Advantage polls | 9/22-9/23 LV
US Senate 2026
Iowa
🟦Josh Turek 47.4%
🟥Ashley Hinson 45.7%
🟨Thomas Laehn 1.6%
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Maine
🟦Troy Jackson 46.4%
🟥Susan Collins 45.6% (incumbent)
Insider Advantage poll | 9/22-9/23 LV
US Senate Iowa 2026
🟦Josh Turek 47.4%
🟥Ashely Hinson 45.7%
🟨Thomas Laehn 1.6%
Link to poll: insideradvantage.com/ia-topl…
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MAINE POLL - Senate
🟦 Troy Jackson: 46%
🟥 Susan Collins: 46%
🟨 Other: 3%
@InsiderPolling | 9/22-23 | 1,200 LV
insideradvantage.com/me-top-…
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We the people demand Bryan!
We’re pleased to announce Jaime Stein in Vancouver - Langara.
We’re unified and ready to bring the change BC deserves.
conservativebc.ca/candidate/…
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Whatever he has on you can’t be worse for your reputation than willingly publishing this shit
NEW: Rahm Emanuel has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in the push to flip the House.
Advising Hakeem Jeffries ("We're in frequent communication," Jeffries says), red-to-blue candidates, traveling, fund-raising and more.
20 years after DCCC chair —>
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Seems more normal. Iran needs to get pinned on him strategically, but it appears Hegseth and Trump will be mostly blamed
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I now have the 1992 new mexico general election(e.g. presidential election) results by precinct for every county. Here is a sample page of colfax county.
I have the 1992 new mexico primary results by precinct, it was surprisingly quick to get it back considering I only emailed the new mexico state archives a few days ago(of course I wanted the general and not the primary but I assume if they have this they have the general)
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Economic elitists who favor cutting healthcare for people who like these shows will try to make you feel bad for being interested in a list of shows for elitists, as if people who watch those non elite shows would care in the slightest that it exists.
Breaking: Times critics think that shows enjoyed by college-educated Americans rock. Meanwhile, shows like NCIS, the Big Bang Theory, and Desparate Housewives drew over 20x as many viewers as an average Breaking Bad series. The Joe Millionaire finale drew 40x as many viewers.
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GS: We estimate that hyperscaler capex is driving roughly half of S&P 500 earnings growth this year.
As hyperscaler capex growth slows and depreciation expenses rise, the impact of AI investment spending on S&P 500 earnings growth will begin to fade and eventually become a drag.
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it has truly never been clearer that news cycles are driven by way too online journalists who see three tiktoks in a trenchcoat and decide its a society-wide issue
Is asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette?
We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom — and commenters — to find out: wapo.st/3Thcjg9
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Very happy to have (mostly) finished this project: county-level election returns for the US House from 1990 to the present. Currently such data are only available from very expensive sources. I've compiled a dataset that provides it for free.
github.com/pmheideman/us-cou…
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