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Hanson: A 2020 Democratic win in Michigan likely hinges on turnout in key areas

Oct 28, 2020 Vogue

Hanson explains that Trump beat Clinton by a net margin of 7,000 votes in Grand Traverse County in 2016—but two years later, in that same county, the Republican candidate for governor, Bill Schuette, tallied only about 1,000 more votes than Democrat...

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Schwarz advice on staying safe while going to the polls in a pandemic

Oct 28, 2020 Staying safe while going to the polls in a pandemic

"VoteSafe Michigan has been around for a few months and what we are trying to do, with the cooperation of county clerks, city clerks, township clerks, polling place officials, is to make certain from a sanitary standpoint, the polling places are as...

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Michigan local leaders trust their local democratic institutions far more than those at state or federal levels

Oct 27, 2020

The political adage is that “All politics are local.” The same could be said of how local leaders feel about the health of democratic governance. That is according to a report on Michigan’s local leaders released today by the Center for Local,...

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Hanson weighs in on Michigan's importance in 2020 election

Oct 27, 2020 WNEM

“Michigan is clearly one of the battleground states,” said Hanson. “The vote totals we see Tuesday night are not going to be indicative of the overall totals," he said. "Probably, they’ll lead more toward Trump on Tuesday because more Republicans...

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Significance of natural gas industry on Pennsylvania voters an interesting test, says Rabe

Oct 26, 2020 Environment & Energy News

Rabe tole E&E News it remains an open question how much the gas fight will influence Pennsylvania voters. "If you have a large state with a diversified economy, how significant is something like the fossil fuel industry? This is an interesting...

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Shipan: Biden and Peters polling leads steady, but a close election result still likely

Oct 25, 2020 Courthouse News Service

“Although Biden’s lead over Trump is similar to Clinton’s lead at this same point, Biden’s lead has been far steadier” said Shipan. “Biden’s lead has been consistently large. Second, pollsters learn from their mistakes. In 2016, they...

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As U.S. Senate race in Michigan tightens, Hanson highlights strong coattail effect

Oct 23, 2020 Fox News

"The presidential race is really dominating what's going to happen in this senate race in Michigan. The coattail effect will be very strong," said Hanson. "If Trump was to have a really strong performance in Michigan, I think that could bring James...

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Stevenson: It's wise to increase minimum wage and provide relief for small businesses

Oct 23, 2020 Washington Post

According to the Washington Post, Stevenson said that lower-wage workers, many struggling with higher levels of unemployment and job insecurity due to the pandemic, should not have to bear the cost of the pandemic by waiting for more equitable...

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Legislative vacuum creates a prominent role for courts in climate policy, says Rabe

Oct 23, 2020 E & E

"We've had every combination of partisan control you can have: all Democrat, all Republican ... the outcome is no new environmental legislation of major consequence," Rabe said. "That creates a vacuum." The legislative void is not the only reason...

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Rabe suggests carbon tax less vulnerable to court challenge than other climate initiatives

Oct 22, 2020 Inside EPA/Climate

“We are going to have to be thinking of any bill, can it pass constitutional muster,” Rabe said during an October 15 Brookings Institution event. According to the Inside EPA/Climate article, he suggested tax policies are relatively impervious to...

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Rabe: Trump re-election would further marginalize EPA staff

Oct 21, 2020 Inside EPA

It would be an “opportunity [for the Trump administration] to consolidate and finalize” deregulatory rules and interpretations now pending at EPA or in the courts, said Barry Rabe during an Oct. 15 Brookings Institution webinar on the election’s...

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Political volatility in Michigan likely tied to economic swings, says Ivacko

Oct 20, 2020 New Statesman

Michigan voters “are ready to buck the trend at any given time, and vote for a candidate that speaks to them” Ivacko wrote that it isn’t just that Michigan voters are mavericks, but that their votes are tied to how the economy is doing and affecting...

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Goldenberg's study finds mail-in voting safe and reliable

Oct 19, 2020 The Conversation

Edie Goldenberg studied mail-in balloting as part of a National Academy of Public Administration working group. The group found that “voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud, does not give an advantage to one political party over another and can...

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Goldenberg optimistic about smooth 2020 election, cautions against calling election early

Oct 15, 2020 Deutsche Welle

"I'm generally optimistic that we're going to make this work because the interest in the election is extremely high," said Goldenberg. "I really think that we're going to run a reasonably smooth election in November. Some states are going to be in a...

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Hanson on blue collar Michigan

Oct 14, 2020 CNBC

Macomb is "a transition county that’s very middle class and very blue collar. In some ways it’s a snapshot of Michigan overall, but also in a lot of ways it ...looks similar to a lot of the rest of the country. If the 2018 election is any indicator...

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Rabe on Biden's appeal to Michigan farmers

Oct 12, 2020 Business Insider

“Climate is a really hard thing to explain, especially when you’re talking about localised impacts," said Rabe. "It’s one thing to talk about wildfires or hurricanes, but hitting plants and agriculture is really significant.” Read the full...

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Ali: More objective, nonpartisan DHS homeland threat assessment encouraging

Oct 7, 2020 Washington Post

“Given the politicization that has occurred on so many issues within the department, it’s encouraging that the homeland threat assessment takes a much more objective and nonpartisan perspective on cataloguing all these threats,” said Javed Ali to...

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Axelrod joins APSA opinion calling for coordinated media response to 2020 Election Results

Oct 7, 2020 The Guardian

"If the outcome is not going to be known on election night, play-by-play coverage on the model of past elections is unnecessary and, in fact, dangerously uninformative. All media should adopt the strict standard that no state winner should be...

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Wolfers on potential liability for irresponsible COVID-19 choices

Oct 6, 2020 Washington Post

"The purpose of liability law is to incentivize responsible behavior by making irresponsibility costly", said Wolfers. “We’d expect to see many more irresponsible choices being made by those taking the president’s comments to heart." Read the...

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Lantz calls on Michigan leaders to back a science-based approach to control pandemic

Oct 6, 2020

Associate Dean Paula Lantz and a coalition of 15 health experts call on the Michigan legislature and county/city governments to take a science-based approach to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in an op-ed published in the Detroit Free Press. The...

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Public policy expert with career in international service sees opportunities to ease global chaos

Oct 6, 2020 Michigan News

Regardless of political or partisan stripes, few voters see the November election as anything less than consequential. And whether one advocates for a go-it-alone or go-with-friends approach to global relations, the world still carefully watches the...

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98% of Michigan local officials are confident of accurate 2020 voting administration

Oct 5, 2020

Confidence in running accurate elections among Michigan local government leaders remains very high, despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and an expected high voter turnout, according to a survey released October 5 by the the Center for...

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Rabe on the transition away from coal

Oct 2, 2020 Chicago Tribune

“I’m hard-pressed to think of any state or analyst upbeat about the future of coal,” said Rabe. “Increasingly, the discussion is about how we can navigate a just, humane transition.” Read the full Chicago Tribune article...

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Hanson highlights tight Michigan Senate race

Oct 1, 2020 STRINGR

"The Michigan Senate race is one of the few opportunities that the Republicans have to pick up a Senate seat...Although most polls show Peters with a narrow lead, that lead is within the margin of error, and there are a lot of undecided voters,"...

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Rabe: A conservative Supreme Court could diminish unilateral executive action on environmental policy

Sep 28, 2020

"Even if former Vice President Joe Biden wins the White House," said Rabe, "the high court’s new makeup would set up a questionable future for aggressive Biden administration environmental policies. I think it likely dials back ambition for any...

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Young voters expected to close participation gap with older voters, says Goldenberg

Sep 28, 2020 Bridge Michigan

“While it’s true that [young people] still lagged the voting rates of older voters in 2018, they closed the gap some, and I expect that they’re going to close the gap even more this time,” said Goldenberg. Read the full Bridge Michigan article...

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Axelrod's game theory experiment offers Biden & Democrats a Supreme Court strategy

Sep 27, 2020 Newsweek

"The salvation for the Court—for both conservatives and liberals in the long run will not be this or that justice, or even the chief justice who at least for a few more weeks will be the ideologically swing justice. Instead, look to Anatol Rapoport...

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Rabe discusses how Democratic governors tackle climate policy

Sep 24, 2020 Environment & Energy News

“We’re in a window where a lot of Democratic governors are trying to do something related to climate, and if the executive order approach is their only route, carbon neutrality is a kind of popular step,” said Rabe. Read the full E&E News...

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Stevenson: New COVID-19 recession upsets gains from Great Recession recovery

Sep 24, 2020 NPR Marketplace

“There is no clear change in the trajectory or path of the economy when Trump becomes president in 2016. We see an economy that started recovering in 2010 and just kept going for an extremely long period of time," said Stevenson. Read Professor...

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Rabe: Linking climate to infrastructure and job creation requires a plan

Sep 23, 2020 Roll Call

“On one hand, in terms of initial public perception, [linking climate change to infrastructure] can be attractive because you’re allowing each citizen to paint with their imagination what it will be like,” Rabe said. But the challenge, he added,...