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Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Bouie is a staff writer at The American Prospect.

Recent Articles

Public Opinion and the Payroll Tax Cut.

Jamelle BouieDec 14, 2010

The public loves the Obama tax deal but of the components, isn't too thrilled about the payroll tax cut:

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Partisanship Is Good for Democracy.

Jamelle BouieDec 14, 2010

Slate's Chris Beam has the best take on "No Labels":

Perhaps the greatest achievement of No Labels is to show why labels exist in the first place. They're so busy talking about what they're not—not Republican, not Independent, not conservative, not liberal—you never get a handle on what they are. Labels are a useful shortcut for voters who want to know what a group is all about. The lack of a positive mission beyond bipartisanship and civility (which both Republicans and Democrats also call for) makes it hard to know what they really want.

Your Daily Dose of History.

Jamelle BouieDec 13, 2010

Via Sociological Images, by way of The New York Times, is the last slave census taken in the United States, dated 1860:

Mike Huckabee and the Minority Vote.

Jamelle BouieDec 13, 2010

Mike Huckabee hasn't made up his mind about another run for president, but he is confident about his appeal to "ethnic" voters:

The House Is Too Small.

Jamelle BouieDec 13, 2010

Sad times for advocates of a larger House:

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal that calls for greatly increasing the House of Representatives to reduce discrepancies in the population of congressional districts from one state to another.

The justices on Monday ordered a lower federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from Mississippi. The suit said House districts vary widely in population, in violation of the principle of "one-man, one-vote."

Doubling or even quadrupling the size of the House from its current 435 representatives would make it easier to draw more evenly populated districts, the lawsuit said.

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