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New poll results show 80% of likely Arizona voters believe American democracy is under threat. The new survey from the Center for the Future of Arizona found just as many believe their vote could improve democracy. Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., said with fewer than 50 days until Election Day, there are...
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Una narrativa común sugiere que los votantes estadounidenses profundamente polarizados siempre apoyan a los candidatos de su partido, pero un nuevo estudio sugiere lo contrario en determinadas circunstancias. Investigadores de las universidades estatales de Sacramento y San Diego preguntaron a más de 900 votantes partidistas sobre la vivienda y las personas...
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A common narrative suggests that deeply polarized American voters always support their party’s candidates, but a new study suggests otherwise in certain circumstances. Researchers from Sacramento State and San Diego State universities asked more than 900 partisan voters about housing and homelessness – then asked them to choose, in a hypothetical...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom, still stinging from a public defeat last month, signed a package of bills on August 16 that he and lawmakers pledged will combat rising retail theft. The 10 bills are intended to make it easier to prosecute people suspected of retail and vehicle theft without...
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Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services At a Friday, July 12 Ethnic Media Services briefing, digital media transparency and political watchdog experts monitoring the rise of AI-generated disinformation discussed prospective challenges to ethnic voters in this year’s national and local elections, and suggested policy and initiatives to fight the issue....
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Yue Stella Yu CalMatters Julián Castro era estudiante en la Universidad de Stanford cuando los votantes de California aprobaron la Proposición 187, una iniciativa electoral para negar servicios sociales y de salud a los inmigrantes indocumentados, en 1994. “Recuerdo los anuncios que publicaron con imágenes granuladas que decían ‘Siguen...
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Yue Stella Yu CalMatters Julián Castro was a student at Stanford University when California voters passed Proposition 187 — a ballot initiative to deny undocumented immigrants social and health services — in 1994. “I remember the ads they ran with the grainy footage that said, ‘They keep coming,’” recalled...
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Sameea Kamal CalMatters ¿Cuál es el costo de la democracia en California? Si calculamos eso basándonos sólo en las páginas que informan a los 22 millones de votantes del estado sobre la Proposición 1 en la guía oficial para votantes de marzo, alrededor de $8 millones. Cada página de...
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Sameea Kamal CalMatters What’s the cost of democracy in California? If we calculate that based just on the pages informing the state’s 22 million voters about Proposition 1 in the official March voter guide, about $8 million. Each page of the primary voter guide cost $117,880 for printing, translations,...