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Dave Cieslewicz: Voting rights ruling could help Dems

The bottom line is that it’s way too early to declare this a big victory for Republicans or even to claim with much confidence that it will reduce the number of Black representatives. And, if it makes us consider voters as individuals with a simple right to vote, rather than as faceless members of a bloc that votes all the same, so much the better. Now, that would be true progress.

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John Nichols: Is Tommy Thompson too old? Never!

The thing to understand about Tommy Thompson is that he doesn’t accept conventional measures of aging. At age 84, he’s still operating businesses, working on his farm near Elroy and, as has been widely noted in recent months, at least mildly entertaining the prospect of mounting a fifth bid for governor of Wisconsin.

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Portrait of Dave Cieslewicz

Dave Cieslewicz: Voting rights ruling could help Dems

The bottom line is that it’s way too early to declare this a big victory for Republicans or even to claim with much confidence that it will reduce the number of Black representatives. And, if it makes us consider voters as individuals with a simple right to vote, rather than as faceless members of a bloc that votes all the same, so much the better. Now, that would be true progress.

Read More »
Portrait of John Nichols

John Nichols: Is Tommy Thompson too old? Never!

The thing to understand about Tommy Thompson is that he doesn’t accept conventional measures of aging. At age 84, he’s still operating businesses, working on his farm near Elroy and, as has been widely noted in recent months, at least mildly entertaining the prospect of mounting a fifth bid for governor of Wisconsin.

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