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Jul 23, 2020

Singular They and the Pronoun Proposal

A letter sent to our esteemed colleagues in Macalester College’s Communications and Public Relations Office in 2015. Now I share it here, excerpted, for those interested. The Pronoun Problem Pronouns have vexed careful writers of English at least since the 1970s when feminist thinkers first had a go at dislodging…

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Pronouns

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Nov 23, 2019

Klobuchar On Buttigieg

Was Senator Klobuchar leveraging structural homophobia? — I agree with my senator, Amy Klobuchar, that it is her job as a candidate to argue why she is the best choice in the field. Yet in an effort to highlight her achievements, as well as gender bias in the media, she problematically invoked Midwestern swing voters while throwing…

2020 Democratic Primary

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Klobuchar On Buttigieg
Klobuchar On Buttigieg
2020 Democratic Primary

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Nov 23, 2019

Disclosure: Author’s 2020 Democratic Party Donations

As I am writing an article discussing rhetoric 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, I want to disclose to whom I have made financial contributions. I’m not a person of much financial means, so none of the candidates listed have received much from me, but they have received something. Buttigieg. As…

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Nov 23, 2019

What is the Cook Partisan Voting Index or PVI?

The Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI) evaluates partisan entrenchment in each state by considering the past two presidential elections as a proxy. It looks at the nationwide preference for major party candidates in the two most recent presidential races and then looks at how many percentage points the state deviates from the national outcome. In the 2017 report, Minnesota preferred Democratic candidates by 1% (PVI was D+1), while Indiana preferred Republican candidates by 9% (PVI was R+9).

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