Reddit Politics Summary Wednesday Nov 8th 17

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Obama on Dem election wins: 'This is what happens when the people vote'

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Russian foreign minister confirms Trump-Putin meeting in Vietnam

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GOP tax bill would add $1.7 trillion to debt: CBO

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Grad Students Are Freaking Out About the GOP Tax Plan. They Should Be.

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• Had she seen the email? A few minutes earlier, the university's Graduate Student Assembly had sent a Google Doc to department representatives across the university, and those reps had forwarded the document to their grad students. Amanda Coston was preparing for a meeting with her advisor Monday afternoon when her friend, another first-year PhD student in Carnegie Mellon's machine learning department, knocked on her door.
• Even factoring in new deductions also included in the proposal, the CMU document estimates her taxes would amount to $10,209 per year—nearly four times the amount under current law.
• "I monitor all legislation at the state and federal levels that could affect graduate and professional students, and this is just—this would have the greatest negative impact of anything I've seen," says Samantha Hernandez, legislative director of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students.

President Carter: Lack of Universal Healthcare Should Be a 'National Scandal'

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• The text is as dear today to the hearts of the American people as it was when Thomas Jefferson first penned his words nearly two and a half centuries ago.
• The Elders – the group of independent former leaders founded by Nelson Mandela, of which we have the honor to be members – has been campaigning for UHC at a global and national level for the past two years. We believe that it is as vital an issue for the US as it is for any other country in the world, and that with bold leadership from national and state leaders, it could and should become a reality.
• For US neighbors and allies such as Canada and the United Kingdom, UHC has been a cherished element of the social contract between government and citizens for decades.

What election? Fox News largely ignores big night for Democrats

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• Democrats also won the mayoral race in Manchester, N.H., took over the State Senate in Washington, and outpolled Republicans in a Delaware County Council election for the first time in history. Obviously, the biggest political story last night was the elections in New Jersey and Virginia, where Democrats swept several major elections and gained seats in both states’ legislature.
• But over on Fox News, you might have missed news of the election because its prime-time opinion talkers, nearly all vocal supporters of President Trump’s, largely ignored it when results began to show a big night for Democrats. Both CNN and MSNBC had nonstop coverage of the election results all night, breaking in to cover President Trump’s address to the Korean National Assembly in South Korea.
• While she did cover the election results in one segment, the main focus of show was thrown to several nonelection stories about Democrats, including coverage of the firm behind the controversial Trump dossier.

Judge issues gag order in Manafort, Gates case

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• Manafort and Gates — who also worked for a time as a top Trump campaign official — were arraigned last week in the first known indictment from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race and the Trump campaign's potential complicity in that activity. Both men entered not guilty pleas.

Sorry, Comcast: Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado

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• "I was very encouraged with the passage today, and particularly with the headwinds of incumbents trying to misinform the electorate," Mayor Wade Troxell said, according to The Coloradoan. Industry groups tried to convince voters to reject the municipal broadband network; the city's mayor called it a "misinformation" campaign by the broadband incumbents.
• Priorities First Fort Collins received nearly all of its funding from the Colorado Cable Telecommunications Association and a group run by the city's chamber of commerce.
• Yesterday, voters in Eagle County and Boulder County authorized their local governments to build broadband networks, "bringing the total number of Colorado counties that have rejected the state law to 31—nearly half of the state's 64 counties," Motherboard wrote today.

Discussion Thread: Election day in New Jersey, Virginia, and more!

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• New York will hold municipal elections across its various cities, including New York City, where incumbent Mayor Bill de Blasio is standing for reelection.
• If you haven't registered yet and are interested in casting a ballot, follow the instructions on the registrar's website directing the appropriate proof required .
• While Ohio and Mississippi are electing local trial judges, incumbent state Supreme Court Justice Sallie Mundy is seeking a full term on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court against challenger Judge Wayne Woodruff of the Court of Common Pleas.

I'm Rick Wilson, Republican campaign strategist, ad-maker, and writer. AMA!

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• According to pretty much all polls, he's hanging strong at 80% GOP base support, most of which definitely do not want this tax bill and are instead merely subject to his cult of personality.
• On gun control, trust me, if you want to know why we took 1000 seats from the Democrats, it wasn't voter suppression, or gerrymandering, or the Koch Brothers.
• In any American suburb, exurb, or rural area, ask them about Democrats and "they want to take my guns" is coming in the first 5 seconds.