It's Kanye what do you expect us to do
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Hi Friend,

 

Unsurprisingly, there is a real cost to shutting down the economy. 


Five months into the “new normal” brought on by the pandemic, and we’re still
seeing the fallout. Millions of jobs have been lost --permanently
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, and millions more are about to be evicted, as the federal moratorium on
evictionsexpires later this month
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So where are our nation’s leaders? Playing a game of political posturing
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Congressional Republicans and Democrats know Americans need relief and
assistance. But in an election year in which the political balance of our
nation hangs on by a thread, neither are willing to look like they’re
capitulating to the other’s demands. 


So until their hand is forced, neither party will move. In the meantime,
millions of Americans will face stress and hardship every day, as the struggle
to figure out how they will house and feed their families. 


When party comes before country, things like this are bound to happen. It’s
why we keep fighting. 


Here are three things to think about this week:  

Is Nebraska it?
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Cornhuskers have a lot to be proud of: Omaha steaks, Fred Astaire, the College
World Series, and of course, their unicameral legislature -- the only one in
the country. Nebraska does things just a little bit differently, according to a
new piece from IVN
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, which breaks down their nonpartisan election system and the impacts that that
drives. 


Overall, Nebraskans are more satisfied with their state legislature, as
leaders more often form coalitions issue by issue, rather than barreling
through a single party bill. Certainly partisan affiliations still exist, and
the state is very much a Republican stronghold, but as a result of a wider
range of voters, legislators from all partisan backgrounds approach governing
from a more holistic perspective. 


As state Senator Adam Morefield said, “When I go door to door in my primary, I
don't just talk to Democrats. I talk to the Democrats, the Republicans, the
Constitution Party, everyone.It makes me a more well-rounded candidate; it
makes me a more well-rounded policymaker.”



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Kanye 2020?
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The Kanye West presidential campaign may have lasted all of two weeks, but in
its lifetime,it caused quite a stir
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The controversial rapper gave both parties pause, as they considered what a
high-profile “spoiler” like West might do to their electoral math. 


As outrageous and ill-planned as West’s campaign may have been, the amount of
chatter he caused across the web did get us thinking. In a new blog this week,
our very own Emily Baller breaks down how Kanye’s candidacy helps make an
argument for ranked choice voting. It’s quick, it’s engaging, and it will have
you thinking:Yeezy 2020? (Just kidding)



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Let's give it up for Maine
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Maine voters headed to the polls this past Tuesday, where, owing to their 2016
ballot initiative, voters selected their candidates using ranked choice voting.
The initiative passed with 52% support back then, earning the second-highest
number of votes for any statewide initiative in thehistory of initiatives in
Maine <[link removed]>. Now, all state and
federal primaries, and federal general elections are held using ranked choice
voting. 


Tuesday saw ranked choice voting being called into play in two races -- one
state house district, as well as CD-2. In these races, candidates failed to win
a majority of votes in the first round, so now second place votes from the
eliminated candidates will be counted, ensuring that whomever wins those races,
actually has a majority of support. 


Also this week, the Secretary of State announced that an effort to block the
use of ranked choice voting in this November’s presidential electionfailed to
garner enough signatures
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the first state to use RCV in a presidential election. #VotersFirst



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