Questions tagged [republican-party]
The Republican Party (sometimes called Grand Old Party, or GOP) is a major political party of the United States. Use with the [united-states] tag.
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Is it legal for the US private company to provide services depending on political party?
Read about US company "Fortitude Ranch", specializing on providing secure vaults, who would open it's "survival camps" at the election day.
Can such company theoretically provide ...
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Is there any evidence on how much impact the Lincoln Project is actually having?
The Lincoln Project and Republican Voters against Trump are generating huge publicity and producing some of the slickest adverts I've ever seen. But is there any evidence that they are having any ...
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Is there evidence that the Republican Party leadership wants fewer people to vote?
I want to know about whether or not many high profile Republicans want fewer eligible Americans to vote because they believe it could help them win more elections. An example that makes me suggest ...
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Why are Republicans (unlike Democrats) heavily criticized for their flip-flopping regarding the 2016/2020 US supreme court justice nominations?
It's hard to be on the Internet currently without encountering heavy criticism of prominent Republican politicians over Trump nominating a Supreme Court justice so close to the 2020 US election. As ...
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Do any Republican Senators oppose replacing Justice Ginsburg on the Supreme Court before the election?
After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death earlier today, Senator McConnell vowed to bring the President's nominee to a vote quickly:
The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said late ...
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May partisan events be held in the White House?
I noticed US President Trump held a Republican National Convention (RNC) event at the White House the other day.
Is it not illegal, and unprecedented, for the President to use the White House — a ...
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How do Republicans explain consistently losing the popular vote in presidential elections since 1992?
I was wondering about how the Republican Party has only won the popular vote once in three decades in a presidential election. Seven out of eight presidential popular votes were won by Democrats. This ...
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Are liberal republicans concentrated in the Deep South?
I saw another question asking why Bernie Sanders has a high approval among Republicans. I wrote in the comment that it could be because of racial bloc voting in the south where most whites vote ...
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Why do such a relatively high percentage of Republicans approve of Bernie Sanders?
There was a Gallup poll done that says that Bernie Sanders has an approval of 26 percent among Republican voters. It also says that he has a 78 percent favorability among Democrats. I'm not sure if ...
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Did 2016 set a record for the number of electoral votes in jurisdictions voting more Republican than the national average?
In 2016, 320 electoral votes belonged to states (and Maine's 2nd congressional district) that voted more Republican than the national average. That is all the states Trump won and ME-2 plus Minnesota ...
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In 2018, did the Republican Party lose the national popular vote by more votes than any party holding a majority of governorships up for election?
I saw this tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/AleksWRLD/status/1296405961859620865. It says that Democratic governors got almost 2.9 million more votes nationally and that the Republicans lost the ...
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Why do Black voters in the USA not vote Republican? [duplicate]
This research by the Pew Institute breaks down demographic voting data from the 2016 election. Pew found that Hillary Clinton (Democrat) won Black voters by an 80% margin (88% to 8%).
Is there any ...
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Are there more Democrats than Republicans in the United States?
I have been thinking about the Democratic Party and whether or not its members are more numerous than the opposing faction.
Evidence to suggest this is the case:
This party is expected to win the ...
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What are the details of the Republican healthcare plan described by Trump in mid-July 2020?
Appearing on the 'Fox News Sunday' show on July 19th, giving an interview (transcript) with Chris Wallace, President Trump gave the following response to a question about his administration's actions ...
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Why are Deep South states said to vote so lop-sidedly Republican, when they have high percentages of African Americans?
States like Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, have in the range of 30% African Americans, who, from what I can tell, vote about 90% Democrat. Yet these states vote reliably Republican.
What is the ...
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