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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Escalating Violence Between Israel and Lebanon</strong> - There’s a sense of history repeating itself along the border, where tens of thousands have been displaced and the civilian death toll is climbing. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-escalating-violence-between-israel-and-lebanon">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Warnings About Trump in 2024 Are Getting Louder</strong> - A judge’s plea, Hillary Clinton invokes the H-word, and a shock poll in the Times. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/the-warnings-about-trump-in-2024-are-getting-louder">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Lessons of Ohio’s Abortion-Rights Victory</strong> - Tuesday’s election results in that state and elsewhere offer fresh evidence of how the issue is likely to help Democrats in 2024. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-lessons-of-ohios-abortion-rights-victory">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers</strong> - A leader of the settlement movement on expanding into Gaza, and her vision for the Jewish state. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-extreme-ambitions-of-west-bank-settlers">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Journalistic Independence Isn’t a Human-Resources Exercise</strong> - A free and independent press is vital to preserve, but doing so requires the people running media companies to take that idea out of mothballs. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/journalistic-independence-isnt-a-human-resources-exercise">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Joe Manchin deserves (some) credit for fighting climate change</strong> -
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Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said this week he will not seek reelection. | Nathan Howard/Getty Images
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You do, in this circumstance, gotta hand it to him.
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The 2022 <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/8/8/23296951/inflation-reduction-act-biden-democrats-climate-change">Inflation Reduction Act</a> (IRA) — with <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/7/28/23282217/climate-bill-health-care-drugs-inflation-reduction-act">nearly $370 billion</a> allocated to wind turbines, electric cars, transmission lines, <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2022/10/8/23387530/home-electrification-heat-pumps-gas-furnace-contractors">heat pumps</a>, and environmental cleanup — is the <a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2022/12/america-landmark-climate-law-bordoff">single largest piece of US legislation</a> to keep <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate">climate change</a> in check.
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And <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23464862/senate-elections-2024-map-joe-manchin">West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin</a>, who this week announced he will not seek reelection, was absolutely essential to getting it over the line. Don’t take my word for it: <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/11/09/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-senator-joe-manchin/">President Joe Biden specifically praised Manchin</a> this week for his vote on the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/8/8/23296951/inflation-reduction-act-biden-democrats-climate-change">IRA</a>, which passed the Senate 51-50 on August 7, 2022.
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I’m forever grateful Sen. Manchin put together an amazing team to help enact the best climate law in human history.
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— K Russell DeGraff (<span class="citation" data-cites="russelldegraff">@russelldegraff</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/russelldegraff/status/1722807376376451307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2023</a>
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It’s hard to overstate how big of a deal the Inflation Reduction Act is for climate change. The country has <a href="https://www.vox.com/22397364/earth-day-us-climate-change-summit-biden-john-kerry-commitment-2030-zero-emissions">committed to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions</a> by 50 to 52 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. The IRA on its own is poised to cut emissions by about 40 percent, according to the <a href="https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2022-12/12%2009%202022_OAR%20IRA%20Overview_vPublic.pdf">Environmental Protection Agency</a>. Manchin was also critical in shaping the $1 trillion <a href="https://www.vox.com/22598883/infrastructure-deal-bipartisan-bill-biden-manchin">Bipartisan Infrastructure Law</a> (BIL) that includes funding for <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/08/fact-sheet-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal-boosts-clean-energy-jobs-strengthens-resilience-and-advances-environmental-justice/">adapting to the effects of climate change</a>, though that law passed the Senate 69-30.
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It’s also important to note how difficult it was to pass these bills, in no small part due to Manchin himself. As the deciding vote, he previously tanked the $555 billion <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/12/19/22845060/joe-manchin-climate-change-build-back-better-clean-energy">Build Back Better Act in 2021</a>. And as legislators scrambled to come up with a backup plan, Manchin’s opposition to the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/10/16/22729648/manchin-climate-change-reconciliation-clean-electricity-program">Clean Energy Performance Program</a> — which would pay power utilities to switch from <a href="https://www.vox.com/fossil-fuels">fossil fuels</a> to <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy">clean energy</a> sources — kept a powerful tool to limit emissions in the box.
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In response, environmental activists focused their ire on Manchin, noting his <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/climate/manchin-coal-climate-conflicts.html">longstanding ties to the fossil fuel industry</a>. According to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=E1140">Open Secrets</a>, Manchin was the largest Senate recipient of money from the coal, oil, and gas industries in 2022. Campaigners also painted him as wealthy and out of touch: They <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/29/joe-manchin-houseboat-activists-517482">accosted him on his houseboat</a> and <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb4g7/joe-manchin-drives-maserati">surrounded his Maserati</a>.
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During negotiations for the BIL and IRA, Manchin effectively leveraged his position. He landed a $925 million <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23900109/hydrogen-green-energy-hubs-biden">hydrogen hub</a> to develop <a href="https://www.energy.senate.gov/2023/10/manchin-announces-west-virginia-selected-as-new-home-of-appalachian-hydrogen-hub">clean hydrogen in West Virginia</a>. In the IRA, Manchin secured a permanent extension of the federal fund for coal miners affected by <a href="https://blog.dol.gov/2022/09/22/funding-for-miners-with-black-lung-disease-permanently-extended">black lung disease</a>, incentives to build <a href="https://www.vox.com/renewable-energy">renewables</a> in old fossil fuel mining regions, and tax credits for hydrogen and carbon capture, technologies that could extend a lifeline to coal, oil, and gas.
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He’s been pleased with the results. “Today, West Virginia is attracting more investment, opportunity, and jobs than it has in decades,” he said in a video announcement. “Here at home and across the country, we are building more roads, bridges, manufacturing plants, and energy infrastructure than almost any time in American history.”
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To the West Virginians who have put their trust in me and fought side by side to make our state better – it has been an honor of my life to serve you. Thank you. My statement on my political future: <a href="https://t.co/dz8JuXAyTL">pic.twitter.com/dz8JuXAyTL</a>
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— Senator Joe Manchin (<span class="citation" data-cites="Sen_JoeManchin">@Sen_JoeManchin</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1722698734910210420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a>
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In the end, the IRA was a fraction of the size of its earlier incarnations and nowhere near the sweeping transformation envisioned by the environmental activists and legislators who dreamed up the <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/2/7/18211709/green-new-deal-resolution-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-markey">Green New Deal</a>. It doesn’t fully put the US on course to meet its climate goals. And it doesn’t contain a <a href="https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/what-carbon-pricing">price on carbon</a>, something that economists across the political spectrum say is foundational to effective climate <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy">policies</a>.
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Since the IRA passed, Manchin has worked to weaken some of its provisions, like the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/25/23571567/manchin-ev-tax-credit-bill-battery-ira-irs">$7,500 electric vehicle tax credit</a>. He also secured approval for a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/28/debt-ceiling-deal-mountain-valley-pipeline-00099135">new natural gas pipeline</a> during <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/5/6/23707949/debt-ceiling-crisis-budget-deal-questions">negotiations over the debt ceiling</a> this summer. However, he failed in his effort to <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/12/23500140/permitting-reform-inflation-reduction-act-congress-manchin">relax federal permitting rules</a> to allow more construction, something that would likely benefit fossil fuel as well as renewable energy development.
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So why credit Manchin on climate?
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In short, he easily could’ve said no, but he didn’t. Keep in mind that climate change legislation has long struggled in <a href="https://www.vox.com/congress">Congress</a>, even under far more favorable circumstances. In 1997, the Senate, with a 52-seat Republican majority, voted <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/climate/stories/clim121197b.htm">95-0 against the Kyoto Protocol</a>, an early attempt at an international climate treaty. The 2009 <a href="https://www.c2es.org/document/waxman-markey-short-summary/">American Clean Energy and Security Act</a>, a.k.a. Waxman-Markey, which would have created a cap and trade scheme to limit carbon dioxide emissions, didn’t even come up for a vote in the Senate where Democrats had a 60-vote majority because of the threat of a Republican filibuster.
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Manchin, a Democrat in a state Trump won by almost 39 points in 2020, has also been in a dicey position. Despite this, Manchin voted with <a href="https://www.vox.com/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-congress-votes/joe-manchin/">88 percent of the time</a>. Meanwhile, Republicans, if anything, have become even more hostile to action on climate change. Every Republican voted against the IRA, including the two senators from Texas, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23577512/texas-clean-energy-wind-solar-natural-gas-ercot-blackout">largest wind energy-producing state</a>; the two senators from Louisiana, which is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/new-orleans-sea-level-hurricane-wetlands/">losing land to sea level rise</a>; and the two senators from Florida, where <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23746045/state-farm-california-climate-change-insurance-wildfire-florida-flood">insurers are fleeing</a> due to mounting losses from extreme weather. None of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23815966/republicans-climate-change-denial-trees">Republican contenders for president</a> are willing to say that humans are heating up the planet.
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Climate change, at its core, is a collective action problem. To limit warming, everyone is going to have to eventually zero out their greenhouse gas emissions, not just in the US but around the world. That demands a radical transformation of the global <a href="https://www.vox.com/economy">economy</a>, and the window for action is slamming shut. Those changes require building coalitions, making concessions, and taking steps that appear frustratingly inadequate because the alternative is dithering as the situation gets worse. This year is likely to be the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/2023-on-track-to-be-the-hottest-year-on-record-say-scientists">hottest year humanity has ever measured</a> and possibly the hottest humans have ever experienced, a grim window into the future of a warming world.
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The same challenge is playing out at an international scale. At the end of November, climate negotiators from around the world will gather at the <a href="https://www.cop28.com/what-is-cop">COP28 conference</a> for a deliberative process somehow even more arcane and vexatious than the US Senate. At the meeting — held in the United Arab Emirates, a major oil producer — countries whose economies depend on fossil fuels will have to come to an agreement with countries baking under extreme heat or being swallowed up by rising seas. Countries that are literally at war with each other will have to sign off on the next steps to limit carbon dioxide.
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So one can deride all the features of the US political system that end up putting so much weight on one Senate vote — <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/11/6/21550979/senate-malapportionment-20-million-democrats-republicans-supreme-court">Senate malapportionment</a>, a <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/7/8/23784320/supreme-court-2022-term-affirmative-action-religion-voting-rights-abortion">right-wing-dominated Supreme Court</a>, archaic <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/06/democrats-get-on-board-with-manchin-for-energy-committee-post-1014354">legislative traditions</a> — but unless any of these variables change, that single vote matters, even if it’s always milked for maximum drama.
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Whether his decision was sincere, cynical, or hypocritical, actions speak louder than words, and Manchin ultimately delivered a victory for Democrats and US efforts to curb climate change. And whether or not Democrats and environmental campaigners are feeling grateful, they’re facing a much <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23464862/senate-elections-2024-map-joe-manchin">more hostile landscape for the Senate in the next election</a> and may soon find that they will miss him when he’s gone.
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Republicans don’t seem to know how to stop bleeding support from the suburbs.
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The victories Democrats <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/11/8/23951783/election-day-2023-results-analysis-winners-losers-beshear-cameron">racked up</a> on Tuesday night spanned safe blue states, Trump country, and one-time battlegrounds: A popular governor was re-elected in Kentucky; Virginia Democrats flipped control of the state house and kept their majority in the state senate; Democrats reversed GOP gains in New Jersey’s legislature; Pennsylvania voters delivered a Democratic romp in statewide contests; and the liberal positions won big in Ohio’s two ballot measures to enshrine the right to an <a href="https://www.vox.com/abortion">abortion</a> and to <a href="https://www.vox.com/marijuana-legalization">legalize marijuana</a>.
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Post-election vote totals show that much of that success was due to a very specific kind of American: affluent, college-educated voters who are likely to live in the suburbs of metropolitan areas. In Kentucky, that means the areas in and around Louisville, where vote totals from the secretary of state’s office show that Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear improved his 2019 margins by nearly 10 percentage points; the counties in and around Lexington, where he improved by an average of 9 points; and in the three northern counties that sit across the state line from Cincinnati, Ohio, where vote totals show he improved by an average of 3 points.
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Ohio was a similar story: The “Yes” vote on Issue 1, which protects reproductive rights, saw its biggest support come from major urban centers and their suburbs, where it performed better than the Democratic Senate nominee in last year’s elections. Vote totals <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/07/us/elections/results-ohio-issue-1-abortion-rights.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=election-results&context=election_recirc&region=NavBar">tallied by the New York Times</a> show the “Yes” vote performing 6 points better in and around Cleveland, 11 points better in neighboring Lorain County, and 8 points better in nearby Summit County. It also won the vote outright in five other neighboring counties that Democrats lost last year.
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This picture also appeared in the suburbs of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, where vote totals reported by these states show a common theme: Suburbs, and places with higher concentrations of wealthier and better-educated voters, swung to the left. It’s a trend that’s been largely true since the dawn of the Trump era: Republicans have been consistently struggling to perform as well as they once did in the suburbs, giving Democrats an opening to persuade and turn out voters that are crucial to winning statewide races in battleground states.
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This year’s results show this big problem for Republicans isn’t going away anytime soon. The party’s conservative stances on cultural issues and <a href="https://www.vox.com/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>’s style of politics have already contributed to major shifts in suburbs toward Democrats; and now the continued salience of pro-abortion rights politics is accelerating, or at least sustaining, suburban voters’ lurch away from Republicans.
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Those suburbs contain large concentrations of high-propensity voters — those most likely to vote in any election — with college degrees and high incomes. They live in economically vibrant and growing regions outside of major cities, as well as in large towns and smaller cities. They were once swing voters, but have moved more solidly Democratic since 2016. And they’re the reason Democrats did so well during the 2018 and <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23357154/2022-midterm-elections-guide">2022 midterms</a>, as well as why they were able to win so many competitive contests in 2020’s presidential-year elections.
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Across many of this year’s races, abortion rights were <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/11/8/23952090/ohio-election-results-issue-1-abortion-virginia-kentucky-roe-dobbs">a major motivator</a> in boosting Democrats among these voters — <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23451074/abortion-ballot-measure-midterms-kentucky-montana-michigan">just like last year</a>. The issue was <a href="https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/23910990/abortion-midterms-elections-dobbs-roe">central to Beshear’s campaign</a> in Kentucky and a focal point in Virginia Democrats’ and Republicans’ closing arguments in legislative elections.
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The major exception to this trend was in the suburbs of New York City, on Long Island. There, Republicans performed well in local elections that largely centered on <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23663437/crime-violence-murder-homicide-cities-downtown">crime</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/9/26/23875580/new-york-city-migrant-crisis-influx-eric-adams">migration concerns in the city</a> and where abortion wasn’t a major issue, showing just how hard it is to disentangle the polarizing effect of the GOP’s anti-abortion rights brand in states where those protections <em>are</em> at risk.
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Virginia’s suburbs and urban centers were a prime example. Democrats managed to flip or narrow the margins of Republican victories in suburban state house and senate seats where abortion politics were the main theme of both Republican and Democratic candidates’ closing arguments, Chaz Nuttycombe, the director of CNalysis, an election-forecasting group based in Virginia, said. In the Richmond suburbs, Democrats flipped the competitive 16th senate district, and came within two points of flipping the overlapping 57th house seat, where the Democrat was also facing a sex scandal. Democrats also won the contest for House District 97 in suburban-ish Virginia Beach, and competitive races to represent the Northern Virginia suburbs of Loudoun and Prince William counties. In the statewide contests for various Pennsylvania courts, Democratic candidates swept. Vote totals show that the candidate for state supreme court, Daniel McCaffery, improved on Sen. John Fetterman’s 2022 vote share in three crucial counties surrounding Philadelphia: Montgomery, Bucks, and Chester, where McCaffery did about 3 points better on average than Fetterman.
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The GOP’s problems go beyond abortion, however. Reproductive rights are one plank in the Democrat’s case against Republicans to these voters, but the GOP’s stances on election denialism, <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22914767/book-banning-crt-school-boards-republicans">book bans</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/lgbtq">anti-trans</a> legislation, gun control, and anti-immigrant proposals are all parts of this anti-extremist pitch to suburban and well-educated voters as well.
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“These places are places where you used to have Chamber of Commerce Republicans, and now you have their grandkids who are much more progressive,” <a href="https://polisci.as.uky.edu/users/dsvoss">D. Stephen Voss</a>, an associate professor of politics and elections analyst at the University of Kentucky, told me. “People talk about abortion as a mobilizer for upper-status professionals, and it is, it’s a part of what you’re seeing … a backlash against the culture war conservatism of the Republican Party.”
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“If you only look at our very limited suburban counties, you’re missing that this trend among affluent professionals is having a wider impact than merely in places we call suburbs,” he said. He highlighted places like Oldham County in Kentucky — more of a large town than a suburb — where Beshear improved on his 2019 results by 3 points.
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This trend has held strong since 2016, when suburban and college-educated voters lurched away from Donald Trump for <a href="https://www.vox.com/hillary-clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>. They had been much more likely to side with Republicans as recently as 2014: In Northern Virginia, Virginia Beach, and the Richmond suburbs, Republicans had won or run nearly even with Democrats in the suburbs; the same was true in places like suburban <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republicans-lost-suburbs">Colorado</a>, <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/swing-districts-romney-won-atlanta-suburb-but-did-democrat/K4kFQDSO86jbZkzpd186iK/">Georgia</a>, and <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/analysis/2023/05/10/how-the-2024-presidential-race-in-wisconsin-hinges-on-suburban-trends/70179579007/">Wisconsin</a> in 2012 and 2014.
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In the “blue wave” of the 2018 midterms, these <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/upshot/suburbs-changing-midterms-democrats-hopes.html">more diverse and highly educated</a> regions voted out Republican members of <a href="https://www.vox.com/congress">Congress</a>. And the suburban shift contributed much of the margin of support that buoyed <a href="https://www.vox.com/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> to victory in battleground states in 2020 and helped Democratic candidates win in close midterm elections last year.
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Abortion politics have played a huge role in this since 2022, but the shift in the suburbs and with more affluent college graduates predates the <em>Dobbs</em> decision ending the federal right to an abortion. In Virginia and Pennsylvania, politics around schools and education, <a href="https://www.vox.com/gender">gender identity</a>, and crime all joined abortion as issues that voters kept top of mind. “In conjunction with abortion is the other layered-in kind of Republican social agenda that is just so repellent to the country,” a Democratic campaigner in suburban Bucks County told <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/republican-party-suburban-philadelphia-losses-20231109.html">the Philadelphia Inquirer</a>. “Voters in the largest swing county in the most important swing state uniformly rejected that.”
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Other Democrats say something similar: “The driving force of our politics since 2018 has been fear and opposition to MAGA,” longtime Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg told <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/democrats-defeat-polls/675935/">The Atlantic’s Ronald Brownstein</a> after Tuesday’s results. “The truth is, what we’re facing in our domestic politics is unprecedented. Voters understand it, they are voting against it, and they are fighting very hard to prevent our democracy from slipping away.”
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That general brand of MAGA Republicanism — socially conservative extremists who threaten basic freedoms — was toxic in swing suburban counties during last year’s midterms especially, and Democratic candidates from Nevada and Arizona to Georgia and Wisconsin seized on that <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23465033/democrats-secretary-of-state-strategy-election-deniers">messaging</a> and were <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/11/14/23456270/midterm-elections-2022-results-questions-trump-inflation-democracy">largely</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23471686/independent-voters-midterms-democrats-republicans-trump-abortion-economy">successful</a>.
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What the last few special, off-year, and midterm elections have shown is that the trend of Democrats performing well in suburbs and among wealthier and better-educated voters continues. That Democrats can do well in an off-year when these are the kinds of voters most likely to turn out is not a surprise. But it should still serve as a warning to Republicans that their branding problem with these voters isn’t just going to go away. Democrats have a big opportunity to shore up support among these communities and continue to frame Republicans as politically toxic — especially with Trump at the top of the ticket.
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The Israel-Palestine conflict goes back decades, but this <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/10/7/23907683/israel-hamas-war-news-updates-october-2023">latest war</a> has taken <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-11-6-2023-51286d15dddd77ae0dd7ea76ee52bc71">an unprecedented toll in terms of the number of people killed</a>, and represents a significant step back from any hopes of securing a two-state solution and a permanent peace. <a href="https://www.vox.com/pages/podcasts">Vox podcasts</a> are covering the conflict in depth, offering our listeners context and clarity about the history of the conflict, a deeper understanding of the players in Israel and Palestine and on the world stage, and the toll of Hamas’s attack and Israel’s retaliation on the people in the region.
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<a href="https://vox.com/todayexplained"><em>Today, Explained</em></a>,<strong> </strong>Vox’s daily news explainer podcast, has been covering the conflict since it began,<strong> </strong>with an episode posted right after Hamas’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/10/7/23907683/israel-hamas-war-news-updates-october-2023">October 7 attack on Israel</a> that took the lives of 1,400 victims and resulted in the kidnapping of more than 240 hostages. The show has since continued to cover many threads in this story, from<strong> </strong>where Hamas comes from to<strong> </strong>how false information about the conflict has spread on social media and how information warfare is used in the Middle East. Vox podcasts <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-weeds"><em>The Weeds</em></a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area"><em>The Gray Area</em></a> have also been covering the unfolding crisis, its stakes, and its impact.
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<a href="https://link.chtbl.com/WeedsBDS">November 8, 2023</a> | If you turn on the news or scroll through your social media feed of choice, there’s a good chance you’ll see the latest on the Israel-Hamas war — and the reaction to it. But there’s one call to action making its way down social media feeds that feels different from all these other responses. It’s called <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23935054/boycott-movement-palestine-against-israel-bds">BDS, short for boycott, divest, and sanction</a>. And like just about everything related to this conflict, it’s complicated and controversial. <em>The Weeds</em> host Jonquilyn Hill sits down with Vox senior reporter Whizy Kim to explain the controversial movement, and with Cornell professor and author of <em>Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America</em> Lawrence B. Glickman to discuss the history of boycotts and whether they even work.
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<a href="https://link.chtbl.com/TEXCeasefire">November 8, 2023</a> | Protesters, politicians, and the pope are <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/9/23953714/biden-campaign-alumni-want-gaza-ceasefire-state-department-dissent-memo">calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war</a>, but the US and Israeli governments remain opposed. Vox’s Jonathan Guyer and Jon B. Alterman from the Center for Strategic and International Studies explain what happens next.
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<a href="https://link.chtbl.com/TEXviewfromisrael">November 2, 2023</a> | Israelis overwhelmingly disapprove of their government’s handling of the October 7 attacks, but their desire for unity keeps Prime Minister <a href="https://www.vox.com/23910085/netanyahu-israel-right-hamas-gaza-war-history">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> in power. Michael Koplow of the Israel Policy Forum explains what Israel’s government should do next, and professor Noah Efron of Bar-Ilan University describes the mood among Israelis.
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<a href="https://link.chtbl.com/TEXgazacrisis">October 30, 2023</a> | Cut off from water and power and recovering from a communications blackout, Gaza is plunged deeper into crisis. It’s not just a humanitarian problem, says leading human rights attorney Kenneth Roth — it’s a violation of international law.
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<a href="https://link.chtbl.com/TEXisraellistenerQs">October 25, 2023</a> | This was the top question we got when we asked <a href="https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast"><em>Today, Explained</em></a> listeners hat they wanted to know about this conflict. Joel Beinin, Middle East history professor emeritus at Stanford, has answers.
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<a href="https://link.chtbl.com/TEXheartsmindslikes">October 23, 2023</a> | False information about what is happening in Israel and Gaza is taking over social media faster than journalists like BBC Verify’s Shayan Sardarizadeh can check it. That’s exactly how digital propagandists want it, says professor and social media expert Marc Owen Jones.
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<a href="https://link.chtbl.com/TEXbidenisrael">October 18, 2023</a> | It’s been 11 days since Hamas attacked Israel, killing civilians and taking hostages. Israel’s retaliation has killed hundreds of Palestinians and created a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment Aaron David Miller and Middle East analyst Michael Wahid Hanna explain what role diplomacy will play in the coming days.
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<a href="https://link.chtbl.com/TEXpalestiniansviewhamas">October 16, 2023</a> | The US along with Israel and many of its allies have long considered Hamas a terrorist group. Khaled Al-Hroub, a professor at Northwestern University in Qatar, explains how its reputation is a lot murkier among Palestinians, who elected the group to political power in 2006.
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He figures the early tee-time will discourage her. The woman says this may be a problem and asks if she can be up to 15 minutes late.They roll their eyes, but say, “Okay.”
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She’s there at 6:30 am. sharp and beats all of them with an eye-opening 2-under par round. She’s fun and pleasant and the guys are impressed.They congratulate her and invite her back the next week. She smiles, and says, “I’ll be there at 6:30, or 6:45.”
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The next week she again shows up at 6:30 sharp. Only this time, she plays left-handed. The three guys are incredulous as she still beats them with an even par round, despite playing with her off-hand.They’re totally amazed … They can’t figure her out.
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She’s very pleasant and a gracious winner. They invite her back again, but each man harbors a burning desire to beat her.The third week, she’s 15 minutes late, which irritates the guys.
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This week she plays right-handed and narrowly beats all three of them. The men grumble that her late arrival is petty gamesmanship on her part. However, she’s so charming and complimentary of their strong play, they can’t hold a grudge.
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This woman is a riddle no one can figure out.They have a couple of beers in the Clubhouse and finally, one of the men asks her, “How do you decide if you’re going to golf right-handed or left-handed?”
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The lady blushes, and grins. “When my dad taught me to play golf, I learned that I was ambidextrous.” she replies. “I like to switch back and forth.”
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"When I got married after college, I discovered my husband always sleeps in the nude. From then on, I developed a silly habit.
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Right before I leave in the morning for golf practice, I pull the covers off him. If his ‘willie’ points to the right, I golf right-handed; if it points to the left, I golf left-handed."
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