Page 37 - Side Top News Today

The other party, you could do an amazing job there now, much better than you ever could before. But there are other things that are at play as well. For example, population sorting. Theres a wonderful book that some of you might want to read by a guy named bill bishop called the big sort. And he basically talks about how people, in a sense, they kind of vote with their feet in that people tend to move and concentrate with people like themselves. People are more comfortable when theyre with likem...

And what i know here, if we look at the democratic races, a great deal of their competitive races have occurred when the candidate is leading in National Polls readers for the election. So right now doesnt run. Ted kennedy in 1972 and again in 1970s pics three years before the primaries he was the leading candidate. He didnt run. Gary hart dropped out in 1997. Mario cuomo didnt run in 1992. Hillary clinton didnt run in 2004. And each of those democratic years wound up being more competitive. We ...

Next, a discussion about National Political party nominations, scandal, and comebacks, as well as rules changes for the 2016 election. This is part of the state of the parties conference. It runs just under two hours. We have four papers to be presented. We hope you will have great interest in what they present. More than anything else, we hope you will have Great Questions because this group of individuals have not only studied what has been, but are giving us perspective of what is to come. I ...

Nominations i dont have my line in here but you only have a few that are not competitive. Versus incumbent renominations that rarely are these things competitive. Betweennd difference these indicators, democrats versus republicans. There is a distinct party difference for this timeframe. Campaigns contents are bit more competitive overall. Republican campaigns typically are not as competitive. Intraparty trends. This is perhaps the most fascinating thing as far as looking ahead toward 2016 and b...

Caused the water to back up and Cascade National rotunda. Series of en on a projects since that time to that the drainage system compromised again by debr debris. And it led to though the development of the master plan nd study of the iron work and to the project we are now going to get completed in the next two years. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] we will have prime ministers questions live wednesday 7 00 a. M. W...

And so that approach generally, generally doesnt work, but you, you know, you could establish distance without trashing, you know, an incumbent for your side. And there was a famous election, it was bush 1990. George h. W. Bush, his midterm election. And ed rollins who had managed one of president reagans campaigns had top staff job at the National Republican congressional committee. And he wrote a memo that went out to all the Republican House members saying, um, you know, effectively, you know...

Detained earlier bike. He began in ukraine were a long running Anti Government protests and the ongoing standoff between Anti Government demonstrators and police has taken a dramatic and violent current for the worse. Police are moving in on a not to protest camp in Independence Square and the center of kiev after nine people were killed in violent street clashes and yet today on reports from the capitals say that riot police have begun and dancing to words protesters using water cannon and stun...

As bart riders express frustration with how long it is taking for the negotiations. Union negotiators in the federal mediator runed for more bargaining after another session ended in the early hours of the morning. Neither side is saying anything specific. The negotiators say they are optimistic. They are not taking the possibility of a strike off the table. We will do everything we can to avert a strike. That doesnt mean we are not ready for a strike. That doesnt mean we are not able to pull of...

The number of riders to go higher if that strike continues next week. With bart out of commission, commuters are turning to buses and ferries as the evening commute gets underway. It ticks me off quite frankly. Theyre inconveniencing thousands and thousands of people. Its a drag. Working at 5 00 a. M. In the morning and getting off at 1 00, i really want to get home because its been a very long day. Reporter San Francisco ferry increased its fleet by four. Thats opening up our ability to move pe...

This is kpix5 news. Wild, wild winds blasting the bay area, taking down trees and knocking out power. And good evening. Winds are gusting to more than 40 miles an hour in some spots. This was the scene a little over an hour ago as a tree toppled on to a house hitting a homeowner. You can see the homeowner is lucky. He is doing okay but he was taken to the hospital. And take a look at this. The nike store at the bay street mall in emeryville fell off of the building and on to the street. A couple...