If the parties started competing for votes across the map, the real winner wouldn’t be Democrats or Republicans; it would be small-d democracy.Â
Abby Rapoport
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How Virginia Ended Up with a Stinker of a Governor’s Race
Terry McAuliffe is poised to become the next leader of the Old Dominion. How did he pull it off?
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Texas’s Ruling on Abortion Law: A Silver Lining to a Storm Cloud
Part of the state’s infamously restrictive abortion law has been declared unconstitutional, but it’s far from a victory.
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Kasich Goes Rogue on Medicaid
Ohio’s John Kasich is one of the few Republican governors to approve Medicaid expansion and he did it using distinctly unconventional tactics—some say illegal ones. Â
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Postcards from the Shutdown Edge
Wondering why you haven’t heard about people going without essential programs? States are covering for the feds, but they can’t keep it up much longer.
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The Wendy Davis Scouting Report
How does the new prospect look going into her first big-league season?
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Eric Holder’s Big Voting-Rights Gamble
The attorney general is challenging North Carolina’s restrictive voting law, along with Texas’s—is he taking the logical course of action, or going double or nothing?
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Can Republicans Buck the Tea Party?
While Congress has done its darndest to kill the Affordable Care Act, Republican governors in some swing states have taken a lead in pushing for Medicaid expansion.
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The Conservative Plan for Medicaid Expansion
The five most important takeaways from the experiments in Iowa and Arkansas
