How important are tax cuts? Judging from the campaigns of the major presidential candidates, you’d think they were pretty important. Republican George W. Bush has made a huge, broad-based tax cut–$483 billion over five years, as much as $1.7 trillion over 10 years–a centerpiece, if not the centerpiece, of his campaign. And even Democrat Al […]
Ruy Teixeira
Ruy Teixeira is a senior fellow and co-director of the Progressive Studies Program at the Center for American Progress.
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Lessons for Next Time
A fter trailing for almost all of the last six weeks before the election, Al Gore wound up the victor in the popular vote on November 7, nosing out George W. Bush 48.6 percent to 48.3 percent. Where did all these Gore voters come from? First and foremost, they came from the Democratic base. According […]
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Behind the Numbers: The Real Electorate
New census data about who voted in 1996 paint a very different picture than did the initial reports from exit polls.
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Happy with Health Care?
The American Association of Health Plans (AAHP)the main HMO trade associationhas a novel strategy for persuading Congress not to take patients’ rights seriously. Rather than arguing with polling data that shows broad public support for tough HMO regulation, they point to other polling data showing that Americans are basically satisfied with managed care plans. Therefore, […]
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As the Left Turns
After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century, Norman Birnbaum. Oxford University Press, 432 pages, $35.00. Many of those on the notoriously parochial American left have only a superficial understanding of the history of social movements in other countries. For these people (and you know who you are), Norman Birnbaum’s superb […]