Highbrow Magazine - 2014 elections https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/2014-elections en Gauging the Influence of the Latino Vote in This Year’s Elections https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/4208-gauging-influence-latino-vote-year-s-elections <div class="field field-name-field-cat field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/news-features" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">News &amp; Features</a></div></div></div><span class="submitted-by">Submitted by tara on Mon, 08/11/2014 - 12:26</span><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1republicansdemocrats%20%28NAM%29.jpg?itok=BJkTY9LA"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1republicansdemocrats%20%28NAM%29.jpg?itok=BJkTY9LA" width="480" height="268" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p> <p><strong>From our content partner <a href="http://newamericamedia.org/2014/08/latino-voices-will-be-heard-in-the-2014-elections-but-not-enough--why-not-shout-louder.php">New America Media</a></strong>:</p> <p> </p> <p>On August 4, a provocative article from Nate Cohn appeared in the <em>New York Times</em>—“Why House Deportation Vote Won’t Hurt the G.O.P.” Cohn argues, accurately, that the low proportion of Latino voters who are eligible to vote in eight of the nine states with competitive Senate races means the Latino vote won’t have a big impact on Senate outcomes in 2014. That’s an unpleasant analysis but well-justified wake-up call for those who care about political equity for Latinos and eventual passage of immigration reform.</p> <p> </p> <p>Where Cohn over-extends his analysis is in arguing that Latino voters won’t have much impact on the 2014 House races either. He says that since Hispanics make up only 7.4 percent of the eligible voters in Congressional districts held by Republicans, the party will retain their majority in the House—even after infuriating Latino voters (and many others) with their mean-spirited vote on deportation of Central American children and the effort to ban administrative relief for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children (DACA).</p> <p> </p> <p>Cohn is probably right about the dynamics of this year’s Senate elections and about Republicans’ continued control of the House in 2014, but the party’s anti-immigrant stance will actually inflict a good deal of pain on many of its candidates. At least in California. Republican efforts to block immigration reform as their best recipe for winning elections is already a losing gambit.</p> <p> </p> <p>There are real uncertainties about how rapidly the real-world changing demographic profile of U.S. communities will affect national politics and the extent to which right-wing anti-immigrant politicians in Congress can continue to perpetuate de facto segregation on the basis of immigration status. But in California and in other states (including those in the South and the Midwest), as increasing numbers of U.S.-born children of Latino immigrant parents reach voting age, their votes will very soon tip the balance toward social policies that more fairly and inclusively represent community perspectives. Given the social and economic consequences of failing to act, particularly in the rural communities where demographic change is moving fastest, there’s a critical need to accelerate the slow pace of progress toward a future with truly inclusive democracy.</p> <p> </p> <p>This future has already arrived in California. The Republican Party’s anti-immigrant stance will hurt its candidates in each of the competitive House races in California in 2014—even in the cases where local Republican Congressional candidates have attempted to distance themselves from their party’s anti-immigrant mainstream.</p> <p> </p> <p>How important are the California 2014 House races? The Cook Political Report identifies 36 House races across the nation as being highly competitive—i.e., they are characterized as leaning red or blue or as a tossup. Six of these races considered to be competitive are in California (in the 7th, 21st, 26th, 31st, 36th, and 52nd Congressional districts). In contrast to the low national proportions of Latino voters cited by Cohn, Latino voters make up 8 to 23 percent of the registered voters in each of these competitive House races in California—substantially more than the national average. Even if we adjust for historically low Latino turnout in mid-term elections, 5 to 15 percent of the likely voters in the 2014 voting in these House races will be Latinos. At least in these races, their votes will make a big difference.</p> <p> </p> <p>It’s worthwhile to remember what happened in the 2012 House races. In 2012, demographics had already caught up with the status quo in two of the currently six competitive California districts, which went from red to blue in that cycle. Both newly-elected Congressional representatives (Ami Bera in the 7th District and Raul Ruiz in the 36th District) are the U.S.-born sons of immigrant parents. Bera won by 3.4 percent and Ruiz won by a margin of 5.8 percent. Both were strong and open supporters of immigration reform as well as being highly-qualified candidates for public office and were elected in part because of their progressive stance on immigration reform.</p> <p> </p> <p><br /> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/mediumlatinovoters_0.jpg" style="height:434px; width:650px" /></p> <p> </p> <p>Do we need to resign ourselves to the current statistical reality of Latino under-representation in the electorate? Why not work harder and faster to help democracy keep up with real-world change? Why not address the huge economic and social issues faced by undocumented immigrants (which author Michelle Alexander correctly refers to as an American “human rights problem”) by investing more in vigorous voter registration and get-out-the-vote initiatives to mobilize the large numbers of Latinos (and others) who are eligible to vote in opposing the proponents of perpetual official inequality? Social and political equity for immigrants is not simply a partisan issue</p> <p> </p> <p>Even if we fail to act, pundits’ dismal warning that Latino voters don’t matter has to be discounted—certainly in these 2014 competitive House races in California, and eventually everywhere in the U.S. Given the likelihood that the spread between candidates in these six California House races in 2014 that are competitive will be only 5 to 10 percent, everyone who is concerned about practical and just immigration policy should join in efforts to assure that Latino and other under-represented groups of voters’ voices will be heard still more loudly in November.</p> <p> </p> <p>Communities’ stakes in equity for immigrants are too high to be relegated only to the realm of partisan messaging. Latino families’ stakes in immigration reform and upward career pathways for DREAMers are high. But they are also high for all of us, whatever our ethnic group, wherever we live.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Author Bio:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>Ed Kissam has led various studies of immigrant settlement in the United States over the past decade, including the New Pluralism Study of immigrants in rural areas and the Latino Entrepreneurship study focusing on North Carolina and Iowa . He is currently working with a research task force on strategies to improve educational outcomes for Latino youth in rural communities throughout the United States.</em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>From our content partner <a href="http://newamericamedia.org/2014/08/latino-voices-will-be-heard-in-the-2014-elections-but-not-enough--why-not-shout-louder.php">New America Media</a></strong></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/latinos" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">latinos</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/latino-voters" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Latino voters</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/2014-elections" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">2014 elections</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/midterm-elections" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">midterm elections</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/democrats" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Democrats</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/republicans" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Republicans</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/hispanics" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Hispanics</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/hispanic-voters" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Hispanic voters</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Ed Kissam</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pop field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Popular:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">not popular</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photographer field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Photographer:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">New America Media</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-bot field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Bottom Slider:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Out Slider</div></div></div> Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:26:12 +0000 tara 5058 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/4208-gauging-influence-latino-vote-year-s-elections#comments Advice for Democrats on Winning the Midterm Elections https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/3892-advice-democrats-winning-midterm-elections <div class="field field-name-field-cat field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/news-features" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">News &amp; Features</a></div></div></div><span class="submitted-by">Submitted by tara on Wed, 04/09/2014 - 11:29</span><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1democrats%20%28Senate.gov%29.jpg?itok=Pei9Mfso"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1democrats%20%28Senate.gov%29.jpg?itok=Pei9Mfso" width="480" height="319" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p> <p>From <a href="http://punditwire.com/2014/04/07/in-search-of-a-message-dems-have-a-way-to-go/">PunditWire.com</a>:</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Commentary</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>If you were a recent college grad or dropout with no job or underemployed or selling your mind and body as an unpaid intern, do you give a (bleep) about the Koch brothers?</p> <p> </p> <p>If you had been terminated from your job and denied extended unemployment benefits, did the Koch brothers do it to you?</p> <p> </p> <p>Your food stamps have been cut; your voting rights threatened; there is no path to citizenship for you and your friends and family and over a million have been deported over the past few years.</p> <p> </p> <p>Did you know the Koch brothers did all that to you?</p> <p> </p> <p>If you are a woman seeing a constant threat to healthcare decisions and a woman in the military facing an unfair justice system who would you blame, the Republicans or the Koch brothers?</p> <p> </p> <p>The populations most vulnerable to those outrages are hardly aware of the Koch brothers.  They sound like a coughdrop maker.</p> <p> </p> <p>I believe only a minuscule number of Democrats and Independents know of the very real threat to our country’s decency – and our base responsibility to those less advantaged – posed by Sheldon Adelson and Koch brother types out there wielding hundreds of millions of dollars in what I call “The Dark Campaign”.</p> <p> </p> <p>So the intent of the Democratic campaign organizations to shine a light on those threats and that Dark Campaign is commendable, but I am not sure it will work effectively enough to turn the tide in close Senate races.</p> <p> </p> <p>Seeking a message that will rally those who believe the Republican House majority and the Senate minority have stymied any White House and Democratic efforts to bring the objective of fairness back to our national policies.</p> <p> </p> <p>Case in point, the Paul Ryan budget – which brazenly targets spending cuts that give the middle class and lower income Americans opportunity while cutting upper income taxes and still increasing spending on defense even the Pentagon doesn’t desire – ought to invite scorn and passion.</p> <p> </p> <p>But it didn’t.  It should and I would hope the Democratic leadership seizes on the Ryan travesty and efficiently alerts the decent majority to vote down every Republican House Member and Senator who stands with the Ryan budget.</p> <p> </p> <p>The Republicans are basing most of their attacks on the Affordable Care Act, and to some extent, even with the target for signups reached, a majority of Americans still unfavorably view Obamacare, though that number is falling, the issue will be a strong factor in close contests in key states like Arkansas, Montana, Colorado and New Hampshire.</p> <p> </p> <p>The fact is that Obamacare isn’t the target.  The real target is Barack Obama.</p> <p> </p> <p>And that is hard strategy to counter as long as he is vulnerable to external events, Ukraine and Syria, for example, where he does not have the diplomatic or military tools to control events like in the bad old days of Panama and Granada under President Reagan.  And where the President does not reap any enthusiasm for a rallying economy.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/mediumobamabiden%20%28White%20House%20dot%20Gov%29_4.jpg" style="height:335px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p>The President was badly hurt by the ACA rollout.  When you can still get laughs on the late-night television shows just by saying “Obamacare” you know you are in trouble.</p> <p> </p> <p>In my humble view, the most effective strategy employed by the Dark Campaign will be to link vulnerable Democratic candidates to the White House over and over and over again.</p> <p> </p> <p>Enter “fairness”.</p> <p> </p> <p>Betraying my age, I recall meetings of the Democratic leadership in the dark months after the defeat of President Carter and the Democratic majority in the Senate in 1980. As a functionary of the Democratic National Committee at the time, I participated in those meetings.  We fumbled around trying to find a way to rally our troops for the upcoming 1982 mid term elections.</p> <p> </p> <p>The DNC was broke and the House and Senate leaders (Tip O’Neill and Robert Byrd) were not exactly buddies.  Their contempt for the DNC was palpable.  The Speaker during those strategy sessions joined by DNC chair Chuck Mannatt would refer to him as “Charlie”.</p> <p> </p> <p>Then the Republicans gave us a wonderful gift…two in fact.   One was a proposal to revamp Social Security the second was “trickle down economics,” a naked attempt to revise the tax code so that lower taxes on higher incomes would result in an economic stimulus that would eventually benefit lower income earners.</p> <p> </p> <p>Despite some misgivings by the more noble of our colleagues, we set out a two-pronged attack, despite our woeful financial situation, and focused on those two issues under the mantel of fairness.  We held a “mini issues convention” in Philadelphia that emphasized fairness.</p> <p> </p> <p>It worked.  We did very well in the midterm election.  Thanks to a weak economy and a spot-on message, the Democrats picked up 27 House seats, and one in the Senate.  By midterm standards, it was an impressive comeback.</p> <p> </p> <p>Can today’s Democratic leadership energize those groups affected most by the McConnell/Boehner coalition that has bowed to the Tea Party and turned a campaign of “Hope” into “Nope’?</p> <p> </p> <p>We have a “passion gap” among the Democrats.  And “passion” is what we need and “fairness” is the key.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Author Bio:</strong></p> <p><em>Bob Neuman served as a speechwriter and administrative assistant to Rep. Morris Udall. He is a former DNC communications director.</em></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/koch-brothers" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">koch brothers</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/republicans" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Republicans</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tea-party" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Tea Party</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/democrats" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Democrats</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/midterm-elections" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">midterm elections</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/obama" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Obama</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/2014-elections" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">2014 elections</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/presidential-elections" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">presidential elections</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/paul-ryan-ryan-budget" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">paul ryan ryan budget</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Bob Neuman</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pop field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Popular:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">not popular</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photographer field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Photographer:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Senate.gov; Whitehouse.gov</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-bot field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Bottom Slider:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Out Slider</div></div></div> Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:29:51 +0000 tara 4566 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/3892-advice-democrats-winning-midterm-elections#comments The 2014 Vote: Do You Stand With Obama? https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/3431-vote-do-you-stand-obama <div class="field field-name-field-cat field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/news-features" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">News &amp; Features</a></div></div></div><span class="submitted-by">Submitted by tara on Wed, 02/12/2014 - 09:12</span><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/mediumblackvotersNewsOne.jpg?itok=g07J742r"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/mediumblackvotersNewsOne.jpg?itok=g07J742r" width="480" height="384" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p> <p>From <a href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/02/black_voters_play_a_key_role_in_the_midterm_elections.2.html">The Root</a>:</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>In 2012, history was made—again. For the first time, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/04/29/black-turnout-was-higher-than-white-turnout-in-2012-and-2008/" target="_blank">African-American voters turned out at a higher rate than the national average</a>, and helped lift President Barack Obama to a second term while helping Democrats add eight seats in the House of Representatives.</p> <p> </p> <p> This fall, the congressional midterms will be another opportunity to rewrite the history books and defy expectations in a midterm election.</p> <p> </p> <p>And there’s no question that it can be done.</p> <p> </p> <p>Propelled by the overwhelming support and turnout of African-American voters, President Bill Clinton and Democrats in Congress gained five seats in 1998 and shocked pundits and prognosticators alike. Like President Clinton, President Obama has been confronted by obstacles beyond his control. Since this Republican Congress took the majority in 2011, they have blocked President Obama’s agenda at every turn—all because they want to protect special interests at the expense of middle-class families.</p> <p> </p> <p>From countless votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act to shutting down the government to refusing to raise the minimum wage, time and time again, House Republicans have shown they aren't on the side of the middle class and African-American families.</p> <p> </p> <p>With their efforts to repeal healthcare reform, Republicans are trying to go back to the days when insurance companies could write the rules and be in charge—undermining the 6.8 million uninsured African Americans who now have access to affordable health insurance for the first time. When the Tea Party shut down the government, they forced more than 145,000 African-American federal employees to take furloughs, while robbing our economy of $24 billion. And by refusing to raise the minimum wage, Republicans are preventing 28 million hardworking Americans from getting a raise.</p> <p> </p> <p>This is also the same Republican Congress that was the first in American history to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/us/politics/fast-and-furious-holder-contempt-citation-battle.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">vote to sanction a president's Cabinet member</a>: Attorney General Eric Holder. These are the types of political games that have done nothing to help working Americans build the economic security for which they’ve worked so hard.</p> <p> </p> <p>So there’s too much at stake this fall to stay home and not get involved.</p> <p> </p> <p>To move his agenda forward, President Obama needs more Democratic partners in Congress. But we know it won't be easy.</p> <p> </p> <p>In addition to the conservative Supreme Court's decision to overturn Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, we have seen states across the country led by Republican legislatures launch a full-court press to enact suppressive voting legislation and disenfranchisement efforts. Too many Election Days have featured broken voting machines, flawed voter rolls, hours-long lines and misleading ballots. Republicans support these measures for a reason—the 2012 and 2008 national election results showed an undeniable correlation between turnout and Democratic Party success.</p> <p> </p> <p>This country has come too far since the Voting Rights Act's initial passage in 1965 to move backward. House Democrats will continue to fight to ensure that participation in our democracy remains unfettered and that all votes will be properly counted.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/mediumobamabiden%20%28White%20House%20dot%20Gov%29_3.jpg" style="height:335px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p>During President Obama's first term, Republicans made their top priority loud and clear: to make President Obama a one-term president. We’re all glad they failed. But if Republicans maintain or build on their majority after November, President Obama’s legacy—and the nation’s economic recovery—will be in jeopardy.</p> <p> </p> <p>Republicans and their special interest allies are part of a broken and dysfunctional system in Washington that favors scoring politics points over problem solving, and looking out for big oil and special interests instead of the middle class.</p> <p> </p> <p>Just last month, House Republican Leader Eric Cantor was caught dining on the taxpayers’ dime as he and his colleagues continued to block a vote on extending unemployment insurance for 1.6 million Americans. Shameful.</p> <p> </p> <p>The question African-American voters will ask when they walk into the voting booth is: Whose side are you on? Are you standing with President Obama and working to strengthen the middle class and ensure that our government is meeting the needs of its people? Or, are you for a Republican Congress that's championed gridlock, cheered on failure and celebrated inaction?</p> <p> </p> <p>Every day for the past 15 months, my Democratic colleagues and I have come to work knowing the reason we are here is that Americans—including nine out of 10 African Americans—went to the polls to support us and our agenda. Democrats are working hard to continue earning the trust and support of African-American voters, and we hope you will join us at the ballot box this fall as we continue our efforts to move America forward.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Author Bio:</strong></p> <p><em>Steve Israel is a Democratic representative from New York and chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. </em></p> <p> </p> <p><em>This article was published in <a href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/02/black_voters_play_a_key_role_in_the_midterm_elections.2.html">The Root</a>.</em></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/obama" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Obama</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/president-obama" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">President Obama</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/midterm-elections" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">midterm elections</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/2014-elections" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">2014 elections</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/politics" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">politics</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/us-government-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">us government</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/republicans" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Republicans</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/democrats" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Democrats</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/supreme-court" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Supreme Court</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Rep. 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