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[fallontonight]

Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jimmy are clearly two goats who will vote in the 2020 Election! 📥

[oupacademic]

Elections Explained: should the U.S. worry about China?

Over the course of Xi Jinping’s tenure as CCP general secretary and president, he has accrued progressively more institutional and personal power. Unlike his immediate predecessors, he has assumed control of all the most important leading committees and commissions that oversee government policy; demanded pledges of personal loyalty from military and party leaders; eliminated political rivals through a sweeping anticorruption campaign; and adopted the moniker of “core” leader, which signifies his ultimate authority within a traditionally collective leadership. By many accounts, Xi is the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.

There are many examples of successful U.S. diplomatic efforts with China that have yielded important benefits globally. With U.S leadership, the two countries found common ground in advancing global cooperation on climate change, arresting the spread of Ebola, and preventing the development of nuclear weapons in Iran. Such cooperation is inevitably hard won. However, Xi Jinping’s ambition for China to assume a position of leadership in a globalized world has the potential to provide the United States with greater leverage in encouraging China to do more on the global stage.

Most U.S.‒China diplomatic engagement operates not at the level of grand bargains to address global challenges but at the more mundane level of technical cooperation around the big issues of global governance. The United States and China cooperate on a wide range of issues, including drug trafficking, cybercrimes and the dark web, counter-terrorism, and clean energy, among others. While these cooperative efforts do not often make headlines, they begin to build an institutional in-frastructure for cooperation. And as one U.S. state department official mentioned, “when you take politics out of the equation, cooperation can be quite good.”

[diet-poison]

Sorry but everyone listed as libertarian on BallotReady looks like a domestic terrorist

[myahjay]

Voting Today? Here’s What Your Ballot May Look Like If you're voting today Ballot Ready is a great resource to learn who will be on your Ballot, so you can do the research you need to before heading to the polls. BallotReady.org

[wxxv-tv]

Get to know your candidates

Get to know all of your local candidates right at the tips of your fingers. The League of Women Voters has invested in an online voter guide.

Catchy campaign signs and memorable slogans are just two ways candidates try to get their name out there so voters will remember them when they cast ballots on Election Day.

Now, members of the League of Women Voters are taking matters into their own hands…

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[genderwhatstheissue]

Political scientists argue that increased effectiveness of female legislators is due to fact that women running for office tend to be more qualified than men

Were you surprised by this data? What does this information tell you about the state of politics? Or about the state of gender equality?