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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Leadership and Elections

Yesterday, the New York Times wrote a lengthy piece on the current ideological divide within the Democratic Party. The division highlighted is age, and the article quotes Tim Ryan, who ran for the Minority Leader against Pelosi in 2016. If the Democrats take back the House, the fight for Speaker of The House might be more contentious than previously thought. 


Today Nate Cohen, the New York Times election specialist, wrote that multiple factors are working against the Republican's bid to maintain the House. The overturning of gerrymandering, incumbents retiring, and Democratic recruiting, are all reasons why Cohen predicts that Dems will take back the House in 2018.

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