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MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among millennials as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections, according to the Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll.

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The online survey of more than 16,000 registered voters ages 18 to 34 shows their support for Democrats over Republicans for Congress slipped by about 9 percentage points over the past two years, to 46 percent overall. And they increasingly say the Republican Party is a better steward of the economy.

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Ashley Matthias, 31, said she has not decided how she will vote but will support anyone who will make her health insurance more affordable.

As she drilled an eagle in black ink across a client’s shoulder blades, Matthias explained that it is cheaper to pay for her doctor’s visits out-of-pocket than to buy insurance through the government-run Obamacare exchange.

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from the same article:



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#winning

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We have some pretty evident biases in our media, but the wider media isn't biased in the way that so many people often claim -- such as that it blatantly favors one party over the other and actively supports one party over the other. That doesn't exist outside of Fox News.

Our media's biases towards poor practices definitely has an impact on elections, it has a MASSIVE impact. People can make a compelling argument (and some have) that the wider media's handling of 2016 electoral coverage threw the very race itself to Trump, specifically on the basis of how outlets covered the Comey letter(s) and moreover the entire "issue" of Clinton email use in a breathless tone for 2 whole years.



You would need to specify what issues you're talking about here for me to be able to respond. It's important to remember some basic electoral history: Clinton actually lost a winnable election (maybe even one where she was the favorite at the outset) in 2008 specifically because she refused to change her position on the Iraq War, even as others did/pleaded for her to do so. This is a major reason why the whole "Clinton changes her position to please different people or groups" trope doesn't really work with people like me who've had to study way too much political history. Context is everything.

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Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, had called on Schedler to resign in February.

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(Reuters) - U.S. solar and wind energy companies have donated far more money to Republicans than Democrats in congressional races this election cycle, according to a Reuters analysis of campaign finance data, an unprecedented tilt to the right for an industry long associated with the environmental left.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - As Californians prepare to go to the polls on Tuesday to choose candidates in primary elections, the state’s quirky electoral rules and a softening of support for Democrats among suburban voters could disrupt the party’s ambitious plan to wrest as many as 10 seats from Republicans in California.

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U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ruled in a legal challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Common Cause Indiana and other groups that the legislation violates the National Voter Registration Act and threatens to disenfranchise eligible voters.

“The court agrees with Common Cause that the greater public interest is in allowing eligible voters to exercise their right to vote without being disenfranchised without notice,” Pratt wrote in her 28-page ruling.

“While the defendants have a strong public interest in protecting the integrity of voter registration rolls and the electoral process, they have other procedures in place that can protect that public interest that do not violate the NVRA,” Pratt wrote in granting a preliminary injunction.

That injunction bars the state from enforcing the law while the lawsuit is fought in court.

So-called Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 442, which was approved by lawmakers in 2017, amends the state’s voter registration laws to allow elections officials to remove from the rolls any voters found registered in another state by a system called Crosscheck that is administered by the Kansas Secretary of State.

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The plaintiffs successfully argued that the legislation violated the National Voter Registration Act because that system relied on incomplete and sometimes flawed registration information, did not seek written confirmation from the voter before removing them and was not applied uniformly.

The defendants argued that registering to vote in another state should be considered written confirmation in itself and that the plaintiffs could not demonstrate that any voter had been wrongfully removed so far, arguments that Pratt rejected.