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Although clichés about the "vulnerability" of women in the economy have been disproved by hard BLS data, we want to believe them. When women lose jobs, the victims are women. When men lose jobs, the victims are, um, women, because they have to make up for that lost male...
Moderates began stomping furiously on the brakes almost as soon as the legislation appeared to pick up speed. Some are freshmen from Western states, like Jared Polis of Colorado and Dina Titus of Nevada; their victories in 2008, part of a possible regional shift in favor of the Democrats, could...
Gays did win some victories yesterday. A new openly gay member of Congress, Jared Polis of Colorado, will go to the House in January. And thanks in part to the Cabinet, the group of élite gay political donors I wrote about recently, Democrats took the New York senate. The...
"There are three ways to fund campaigns, and none of them is very good," says Polis, who advocates an overhaul of the campaign finance system. "You can have rich friends; you can have support from special interests, PACs and lobbyists; or you can fund a campaign yourself. This race has...
In the campaign's waning hours, each candidate hunted for every last vote. Polis went door-to-door to meet voters, the culmination of a year of marathon days on the campaign trail. Fitz-Gerald's campaign unleashed what they dubbed a "Fitz Blitz" during the campaign's final weekend...