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Today on Context Florida: Thanksgiving & refugees, testing the American experiment and distracted driving

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Today on Context Florida: Thanksgiving is America’s holiday season, when we are supposed to give thanks for our blessings, gather around tables laden with festive food, and commemorate a bedraggled boatload of refugees who just showed up one day needing a decent meal and a safe place to crash. Diane Roberts says Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rick Scott take a radically different view. They want to slam the door on everyone, especially Syrians fleeing the horrors of ISIS.…

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Mitch Perry Report for 11.25.15 – And now there are 2 states who don’t automatically restore voting rights to ex-felons

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Outgoing Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear signed an executive order Tuesday immediately restoring voting rights to more than 100,000 ex-felons convicted of nonviolent offenses. “This disenfranchisement makes no sense,” Beshear, a Democrat, said in his announcement. “It makes no sense because it dilutes the energy of democracy, which functions only if all classes and categories of people have a voice, not just a privileged, powerful few. It makes no sense because it defeats a primary goal of our corrections system, which is to rehabilitate…

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Email insights: Democratic website helps handle “Your Republican Uncle” during Thanksgiving

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For most people, holidays are supposed to be filled with fun, food and celebration. With that in mind, for the sake of keeping the peace, it’s always a good rule of thumb to avoid talking politics during family get-togethers. However, that may be next to impossible this year, as Thanksgiving falls in the midst of the highly charged 2016 presidential elections. Coming to the rescue is an email from the Democratic National Committee, which offers “The Democrat’s Guide to Talking Politics…

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Ted Cruz soars to 2nd place behind Donald Trump in new Iowa poll

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Donald Trump leads in Iowa in a Quinnipiac poll released on Tuesday, but barely — and his closest competitor is not Dr. Ben Carson, but Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Trump narrowly leads Cruz, 25-23 percent, a doubling of support for Cruz since the last Quinnipiac poll in Iowa taken last month. Carson is third with 18 percent, and Marco Rubio is fourth with 13 percent. Rand Paul is next at 5 percent, then Jeb Bush at 4 percent. Carly Fiorina…

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New NH GOP poll shows majority of voters still yearn for Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney has said consistently that he’s not a candidate for president in 2016, and he certainly won’t be in New Hampshire next February: The deadline for all candidates to file for next winter’s presidential primary expired Friday. However, if he was, he’d be the leading candidate in the Granite State, according to a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll published Sunday. The poll shows Romney with 31 percent support, compared to Donald Trump‘s 15 percent. However, with Romney not mentioned in the survey, the New…

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New Bloomberg poll: Donald Trump 24%, Ben Carson 20%, Marco Rubio 12%

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A Bloomberg Politics poll released on Thursday morning shows Donald Trump continuing to lead the GOP race for president with 24 percent, followed up by Dr. Ben Carson at 20 percent. Marco Rubio continues his rise — the Florida Senator is now at 12 percent. Texas Senator Ted Cruz is fourth with 9 percent. Jeb Bush is next up with 5 percent, followed by Chris Christie at 4 percent, and then a four-way tie at 3 percent between Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Mike…

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Jeb Bush calls for U.S. ground forces to fight Islamic State

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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Wednesday called for the U.S. to send more troops to the Middle East to fight the Islamic State. “This is the war of our time,” the former Florida governor said at the Citadel five days after Islamic State militants attacked Paris and killed 129 people. “Radical Islamic terrorists have declared war on the western world. Their aim is our total destruction. We can’t withdraw from this threat, or negotiate with it. We have but…

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