Tenali MLA Siva Kumar triggered a controversy at polling booth when he got into a fight with a common man. Siva Kumar was seen ignoring the line at booth and a common man stopped him. Out of anger, MLA slapped the commoner. The citizen also slapped the MLA back, resulting in both engaging in fist fight. The video of the same is currently going viral on social media. Watch Here
Nearly two years after a federal judge said that Louisiana’s congressional map diluted Black voting power, Black voters are at risk of voting for a second time in an election under a plan that likely violates the Voting Rights Act. The latest obstacle is a new ruling, issued by a different federal court, that held the state’s Republican legislature violated the Constitution when lawmakers added a second majority-African American district to the state’s six district congressional plan. The new...
Commission on Elections Chairperson George Erwin Garcia advised those who were removed from the Comelec list of voters to participate in the ongoing voters’ registration to be able to participate in upcoming elections.
PA Voter Allegiances Changing In 2024 Authored by Salena Zito via RealClearPolitics, NEWTON SQUARE, PA – In childhood, Tasliym Morales was always interested in civic affairs, so it was no surprise to those who knew her that as soon she turned 18, she registered to vote. What did take her family and friends aback, however, was the political party affiliation she chose. “Republican,” she says with a broad smile. The striking mother of six is sitting at the head table of the...
The U.S. economy is one of the biggest issues for voters in the 2024 presidential contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Biden campaigned this week on new tech investments. Trump says he will roll back Biden infrastructure spending and increase oil drilling. VOA's Scott Stearns has the story.
New York Times political analyst Nate Cohn made an astute observation about a new Siena poll, which showed President Joe Biden trailing Donald Trump in most battleground states. "If there's any consolation [for Biden], it's that the poll is also littered with evidence that folks aren't super tuned in, and disengaged voters remain Biden's weakness," Cohn tweeted. It's an insight that will likely define the presidential contest moving forward. In the survey, for example, just 29% of...
Democrats love abortion. A lot. In fact, given how frequently progressives claim black women are “victims” of abortion restrictions, it’s clear they love it more than their black voters. Joe Biden is making abortion a major campaign issue in this year’s election, and the party’s official X page tweets about it constantly. The vice president is equally bullish on using the issue to connect with female voters. Her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, was recently in Atlanta to tell men —...
Democratic voters are such a brave lot.
While new polling data reveals that Republicans are more in favor of tariffs than Democrats, voters generally support tariffs more when they target China.
Dutch voters have more trust in the European Union than their own parliament, but confidence in both institutions is waning, according to a survey by the statistics agency CBS. The annual poll, taken last year, showed 47.1% of people over 15 trusted the EU, while 29% had faith in the Lower House. The figures for 2022 were 48.7% and 30.4% respectively. It is the first time since the survey began in 2012 that fewer than three in 10 people expressed
President Biden has argued for years that he is the politician to restore normalcy to American politics. But for almost as long, a subset of American voters, frustrated by everything from the economy to immigration policy, have argued that they do not want his version of it. The latest New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College poll in battleground states, released on Monday, showed that most voters still wanted to “bring politics in Washington back to normal.” But nearly 70 percent of...