Blog Post 3.3 "Impeachment & The Public"

1.  All seven have more in favor of removal than opposing it.
2. FiveThirtyEight found the most support for removing him and Mon mouth had the most opposition for removing him.
3. 83.9% of Democrats support removal while only 8.4% Republicans support.
4. More people support the House impeaching Trump than they support actually removing Trump from office.
5. They think Mike Pence would be a better president.
6. The voters tend to be a bit more Republican than all American adults.
7. 89% of men said a woman cold get elected while 9% disagreed, but women were, at 79% to 20%.
8. White voters without a college degree caused the issues.
9. 69% of Americans do not want Roe v. Wade to be overturned.

Blog Post 3.2 "SCOTUS 2020"

1. Both the Trinity Luthern and Espinoza involve state constitutional provisions that prohibited those states from spending money to "aid" churches and other religious institutions.
2. It would prohibit basic things such as police protection or fire protection: if a church caught on fire, the fire department would have to just let it burn baby.
3. The plaintiff argues that the ban forces students to "choose between attending a school that accords with her beliefs or receiving thousands of dollars in government benefits."
4. The US government spends an average of $11, 392 per year on each public school student.
5. Chief Justice Roberts said, "Denying a generally available benefit solely on account of religious identity imposes a penalty on the free exercise of religion that can be justified only by a state interest 'of the highest order.'"
6. The super-conservative Supreme Court is probably going to expand the rights of the religious conservatives.
7. The heart of both of the Pennsylvania cases is whether the Trump administration acted properly when it wrote a sweeping exemption into regulations requiring employers to include birth control coverage in employee health plans.
8. "when followers of a particular sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice, the limits they accept on their own conduct as a matter of conscience and faith are not to be superimposed on the statutory schemes which are binding on others in that activity."
9. Trump administration gave religious objectors a broad exemption from the requirement to provide birth control coverage. It gives anyone with a moral or religious opposition the option to just not provide coverage for birth control.
10. Trump's additions are all conservative and religious, so of course, they will side with the religious folks because women are beneath men in every single way possible and birth control is a luxury to women, like mints but worse because it prevents the precious baby from blossoming. You know, the baby that the woman probably doesn't want in the first place but hey it isn't her body so why does she get an opinion haha.

Blog Post 3.1 "Tensions with Iran"

1. He used to lead Iranian covert operations and intelligence, and he was one of the country's most revered military leaders.
2. The Pentagon justified this by saying that General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region, and General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more.
3. Iran's leaders have promised "revenge."
4. President Trump is threatening to attack multiple Iranian sites if they strike any American people or assets. Of course, all of this was said via Twitter.
5. Trump stated in his tweet that he wants to target Iranian cultural sites, and doing so is a war crime.
6. The Iranian people have all banded together, despite political differences, in order to mourn the death of Gen. Soleimani who they deem a hero, and tens of thousands of mourners filled the streets of Ahvaz and Mashhad Sunday where Soleimani's remains were transported for public processions.
7. The leaders of Iraq want US troops to leave the country over concerns the US violated Iraqi sovereignty in its assassination, and this move could completely alter the US-Iraq relationship and fundamentally change the fight against ISIS.
8. Sanctions against Iran would be eased in exchange for compliance with nuclear restrictions.
9. President Trump withdrew from the deal and imposed harsh sanctions.
10. Iran's nuclear program will have no limitations in production including enrichment capacity and percentage and number of enriched uranium and research and expansion.
11. Iran will still allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to review its nuclear research.

Blog Post 2.5 "Trump Administration So Far"

1. There have been 53 separate rules that they have completely undone and 32 more that are in the rollback process.
2. American oil output has soared to the point where net imports of crude oil and petroleum products are at their lowest level, and natural gas output has soared to record highs.
3. Trump's administration has allowed states to put an employment requirement on Medicaid.
4. In Arkansas, nearly 20,000 people lost insurance.
5. Tax cuts have increased the federal deficit the most.
6. The SEC has gotten way more lax about its enforcement of regulations about the stock market, and the stock market practices have gotten riskier.
7. The banking industry has been way more profitable because of relaxed regulations, but they have gotten riskier.
8. Trump has canceled DACA, made it difficult to get H-1B visas for skilled technology workers, put in place a travel ban.
9. cut down by 80%
10.  Trump has doe 46 judges in 3 years, while Obama did only 55 over eight years.

Blog Post 2.4 "Trump & Social Media"

1. Trump has spent $1.6 million on Facebook about the impeachment process.
2. He is targeting his base rather than the voters who live in the states that will decide the outcome of the 2020 elections.
3. The ads all say that the impeachment is a political plot against the president by Democrats, and they all push conspiracies.
4. Political groups spent $284 million on Facebook during the 2018 midterm elections.
5. 30% of Trump's advertising is about impeachment.
6. Boomers
7. States that could help him win the 2020 election like Wisconsin and Michigan.
8. Trump is basically aligning himself against anyone who might oppose him, Democrat or Republican.
9. Trump has $50 million more than the Democrat with the most money.
10. Warren is dedicating her ads to states with a lot of people because she's list-building.

Blog Post 2.3 "ERA is Back!"

1. The "Democrats took control of both the House and Senate in Virginia on Tuesday."
2. The Equal Rights Amendment proposed in 1972 would guarantee equal rights regardless of sex.
3. When it was originally proposed 35 states ratified it, and recently Nevada and Illinois ratified it in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
4. There needs to be three-fourths of the states to ratify the amendment, which is 38 states.
5. Congress sent it to the states to be ratified with a seven-year deadline.
6. Virginia got close to ratifying the ERA last year, but the GOP-controlled legislature ultimately rejected it.
7. Congress can literally just vote to move the deadline lol.
8. The current 27th amendment, which gives pay raises to Congress, was held off for 190 years until it was actually ratified. If that can get ratified, then the ERA can.

Blog Post 2.2 "2020 Election Check In"

1. The Liberty and Justice Celebration dinner is important to candidates because it is historically the largest gathering of voters in Iowa, and it marked the beginning of a final push to the caucuses at a moment when support for a number of candidates has seen major shifts.
2. 29% of voters are still undecided on who to choose, and 20% of voters know for certain who they will caucus for.
3. Mayor Pete and Elizabeth Warren have seen a large increase in support in recent Iowa polling, and Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have seen a decrease in support.
4. Pete Buttigieg says, "Because I believe these things - not based on my age, but based on my experience."
5. Elizabeth Warren says, "I'm running a campaign from the heart."
6. Sanders hosted a watch party for his supporters rather than buy seating.
7. February 3, 2020, is the caucus date.