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More than a quarter of respondents say they’ll gain five seats or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11692560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2200\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image1.jpg 2200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image1-160x207.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image1-800x1036.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image1-1020x1320.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image1-927x1200.jpg 927w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image1-1920x2486.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image1-1180x1528.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image1-960x1243.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image1-240x311.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image1-375x485.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image1-520x673.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, Democrats need to flip 23 seats to reclaim a majority in the House of Representatives. Some of the most \u003ca href=\"https://elections.calmatters.org/2018/district-postings/us-house-of-representatives/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">competitive\u003c/a> seats are in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Republicans have been hoping that \u003ca href=\"https://elections.calmatters.org/2018/california-ballot-measures/proposition-6-gas-tax-repeal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 6\u003c/a>—a ballot measure to roll back a gas tax increase passed last year by the Democratic-controlled Legislature—would insulate them from an otherwise unfavorable election environment. But a majority of the survey respondents threw cold water on that idea, too, with 53 percent forecasting that the repeal attempt will fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11692564\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2200\" height=\"3176\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image2.jpg 2200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image2-160x231.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image2-800x1155.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image2-1020x1473.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image2-831x1200.jpg 831w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image2-1920x2772.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image2-1180x1703.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image2-960x1386.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image2-240x346.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image2-375x541.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image2-520x751.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That take runs counter to a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1sIIQSUED6MwcGxVYcImDAsn7e-nY-E/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC Dornsife poll\u003c/a> from last May, which found that 51 percent of registered voters favored repeal. Proposition 6 proponents face overwhelming financial opposition from the state’s business groups, labor unions and organizations representing city and county governments, who argue that the state’s roads will suffer without the extra funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what is the single biggest issue that will determine the outcome of the November election in California? We asked the insiders, and the results weren’t even close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11692567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2200\" height=\"3244\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image3.jpg 2200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image3-160x236.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image3-800x1180.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image3-1020x1504.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image3-814x1200.jpg 814w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image3-1920x2831.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image3-1180x1740.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image3-960x1416.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image3-240x354.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image3-375x553.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/INSIDERS-PREDICT-image3-520x767.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of the gas tax, the vast majority said that the election in California will boil down to the actions, impulses, tweets and public approval rating of one person over 2,000 miles away: President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CALmatters will be publishing survey results through the \u003ca href=\"https://elections.calmatters.org/2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November election\u003c/a>. Stay tuned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Most Americans don't want their family members to pass along their political opinions while passing the turkey and dressing this Thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a new \u003ca href=\"http://maristpoll.marist.edu/nprpbs-newshourmarist-poll-results-november-2017\">NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll\u003c/a>, 58 percent of people celebrating the holiday are dreading having to talk politics around the dinner table. Just 31 percent said they were eager to discuss the latest news with their family and friends, while 11 percent are unsure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.22-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11632990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.22-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1540\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.22-AM.png 1540w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.22-AM-160x71.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.22-AM-800x357.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.22-AM-1020x456.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.22-AM-1180x527.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.22-AM-960x429.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.22-AM-240x107.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.22-AM-375x168.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.22-AM-520x232.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1540px) 100vw, 1540px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a slight uptick from a year ago, when a CNN poll found that 53 percent said they were dreading having to carry on such a conversation, with 43 percent saying they looked forward to such a dialogue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a sense of dread. It suggests some indigestion may be part of Thanksgiving dinner if politics come up,\" said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. \"People you work with and go out with socially tend to share political views, but when you get to family, if politics is in the recipe, it may not taste very well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That trepidation about broaching politics isn't coming from just one political party, but almost two-thirds of Democrats said they are, while only about half of Republicans were. (Fifty-six percent of independents also said so.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump is, unsurprisingly, a polarizing topic of potential dinner conversation. Forty-seven percent of people in the poll said they find it \"stressful and frustrating\" when talking with people who have a different opinion about the president than they do. (A Pew Research Center poll from June found 59 percent saying the same thing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11632989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1542\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM.png 1542w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-160x83.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-800x416.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-1020x531.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-1180x614.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-960x499.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-240x125.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-375x195.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-520x270.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1542px) 100vw, 1542px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Marist survey this month, 43 percent of people said they find it \"interesting and informative\" to engage with people who have different views of Trump. Not surprisingly, it's Democrats who are less likely to want to engage with people who have different views of the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of Democrats said it's stressful and frustrating to do so, while a majority of Republicans said it was \"interesting and informative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A slight plurality — 47 percent — of independents also thought engaging with differing viewpoints was positive, while 44 percent found it to be a negative thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Political civility drops nationally, but not as much locally \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of civility that many anticipate will put a damper on their holiday season is emblematic of the broader political discourse across the country. Sixty-seven percent of adults said the tone and level of civility in Washington have gotten worse since Trump was elected a year ago. (Just 23 percent said it has stayed the same, with only 6 percent saying it has improved.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, again, think the tone in D.C. has gotten worse by a higher margin — 79 percent think so with just 13 percent saying it has stayed the same and 5 percent saying it has improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixty percent of Republicans agree the level of civility has dropped, while 31 percent said it has stayed the same, and 7 percent say it has gotten better. Just over two-thirds of independents said it has gotten worse, about a quarter said it has stayed the same and 7 percent said it has gotten worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Americans are more optimistic about the level of discourse in their communities, however. Just over half of those surveyed said the tone and civility had stayed the same locally since Trump was elected, while 32 percent said it had gotten worse. Only 12 percent said it had gotten better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And once again, it is Democrats taking the most dour view — 47 percent said things have stayed the same; 46 percent said they think it has gotten worse; and only 4 percent said the tone of discourse in their own communities has gotten better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that with 58 percent of Republicans and 47 percent of independents, who thought things locally have gotten better. Twenty-seven percent of GOP voters said the discourse in their community has improved, while just 9 percent of independents thought so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, 30 percent of independents said things have gotten worse locally, and only 12 percent of Republicans thought so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, half of Americans still said they think the political discourse in the country is negative, while 36 percent classified it as angry. Only 11 percent said they think the current national conversation is positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.37-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11632988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.37-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1550\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.37-AM.png 1550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.37-AM-160x72.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.37-AM-800x362.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.37-AM-1020x462.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.37-AM-1180x534.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.37-AM-960x435.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.37-AM-240x109.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.37-AM-375x170.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.37-AM-520x236.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1550px) 100vw, 1550px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans are the most upbeat — 21 percent said they think the discourse is positive, but just over half still think it is negative, and about a quarter say it is angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats were almost evenly split between thinking it is negative (45 percent) and angry (44 percent) with only 9 percent saying it is positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Americans across the board said they think both parties have crossed a line in attacking the other side — two-thirds thought Democrats had done so. Just 29 percent thought the party had stayed within acceptable bounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers are almost identical for the GOP — with 67 percent saying Republicans crossed a line in attacking Democrats, and just 27 percent said it has been within acceptable boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trump underwater as public disapproves of how Republicans handle health care, tax overhaul\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's approval rating remains stagnant and steady at 39 percent. A majority (55 percent) continue to disapprove of the job the president is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marist's past 11 surveys testing the president's approval, he hasn't risen above 39 percent, where it has been five times, and hasn't dipped below 35 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's not the typical pattern of a honeymoon,\" Miringoff said. \"This is just steady. It's his base that approves, and that's it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers could bode well for Democratic hopes in the 2018 midterms, but this poll also shows their advantage on who Americans would rather control Congress narrowing to just 3 points, 43 percent to 40 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"d1tqUSnEOhvdhAY7nfsFpNKtTFyyGfVG\"]That's a 12-point shift from just a week earlier, when Marist showed Democrats with a 15-point advantage. It is also a deviation from other recent polls that have given Democrats the wider gap they have needed historically to take back control of the House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miringoff explained that the shift isn't due to Republicans picking up voters, but to independents going from Democrats to undecided — for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That 15-point edge also came following the big Democratic gains in Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere, which might have colored respondents' preferences. (It also, however, coincided with the president's trip to Asia, where he was uncharacteristically quiet on Twitter.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the issues, though, almost three-quarters of Americans said they disapprove of how Republicans have handled health care legislation. Some 60 percent want the Affordable Care Act changed to do more (41 percent) or want to let it stand (19 percent), while just 35 percent want it repealed completely (28 percent) or to do less (7 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How Republicans are performing on the tax overhaul isn't much better in the public's eyes, either. Fifty-seven percent said they don't like how the GOP has handled the possible overhaul, with only 31 percent approving. Additionally, one of Republicans' most-used arguments isn't resonating widely either — when asked if they'd be in favor of receiving a tax cut if it meant increasing the national deficit, two-thirds of Americans said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About 1 in 3 women says she has been subject to office sexual harassment \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll also found that just over one-third of women said they have been sexually harassed in their workplace. Overall, 1 in 5 Americans, including men, says he or she has experienced sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"EvKtJnNuZHpwdHp1WDMwPfBsLxSBTJq7\"]Older women are more likely to say they have experienced sexual harassment — 32 percent above the age of 45 said they have been victimized during their careers, compared with 18 percent under 45.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers come as many \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/10/us/men-accused-sexual-misconduct-weinstein.html\">high-profile men\u003c/a>, from Hollywood moguls like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/10/16/558165331/in-the-wake-of-harvey-weinstein-scandal-women-say-metoo\">Harvey Weinstein\u003c/a> to politicians like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/11/20/565350546/sen-al-franken-hit-with-second-groping-allegation\">Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn.\u003c/a>, and Alabama GOP Senate nominee \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/11/16/564681158/white-house-says-moore-allegations-very-troubling-but-alabama-voters-should-deci\">Roy Moore\u003c/a>, have been accused of sexual misconduct or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR's former top news executive Michael Oreskes was forced to resign after multiple sexual harassment allegations were leveled against him. NPR CEO Jarl Mohn has taken a medical leave amid the fallout from Oreskes' departure. NPR has also placed David Sweeney, who was recently promoted to the position of chief news editor, on paid administrative leave while reviewing allegations about his conduct as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More allegations surfaced on Monday, against \u003cem>New York Times \u003c/em>reporter \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/20/16678094/glenn-thrush-new-york-times\">Glenn Thrush\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/eight-women-say-charlie-rose-sexually-harassed-them--with-nudity-groping-and-lewd-calls/2017/11/20/9b168de8-caec-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?utm_term=.434fb9ca001d\">Charlie Rose\u003c/a>, who appears on CBS, PBS and Bloomberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as the list of the accused grows almost daily, a strong majority of Americans (88 percent) said they do believe their workplace takes reports of sexual harassment and abuse seriously, including 69 percent who said they are taken \"very seriously.\" Only 9 percent said they believe such allegations aren't taken very seriously, and 4 percent said they aren't taken seriously at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two-thirds (64 percent) of employees also said they think the accuser is more likely to be believed by their place of business than the accused in such situations. Just 18 percent said the accused is more likely to be believed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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(A Pew Research Center poll from June found 59 percent saying the same thing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11632989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1542\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM.png 1542w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-160x83.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-800x416.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-1020x531.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-1180x614.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-960x499.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-240x125.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-375x195.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-10.28.29-AM-520x270.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1542px) 100vw, 1542px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Marist survey this month, 43 percent of people said they find it \"interesting and informative\" to engage with people who have different views of Trump. Not surprisingly, it's Democrats who are less likely to want to engage with people who have different views of the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of Democrats said it's stressful and frustrating to do so, while a majority of Republicans said it was \"interesting and informative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A slight plurality — 47 percent — of independents also thought engaging with differing viewpoints was positive, while 44 percent found it to be a negative thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Political civility drops nationally, but not as much locally \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of civility that many anticipate will put a damper on their holiday season is emblematic of the broader political discourse across the country. Sixty-seven percent of adults said the tone and level of civility in Washington have gotten worse since Trump was elected a year ago. (Just 23 percent said it has stayed the same, with only 6 percent saying it has improved.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, again, think the tone in D.C. has gotten worse by a higher margin — 79 percent think so with just 13 percent saying it has stayed the same and 5 percent saying it has improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixty percent of Republicans agree the level of civility has dropped, while 31 percent said it has stayed the same, and 7 percent say it has gotten better. Just over two-thirds of independents said it has gotten worse, about a quarter said it has stayed the same and 7 percent said it has gotten worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Americans are more optimistic about the level of discourse in their communities, however. Just over half of those surveyed said the tone and civility had stayed the same locally since Trump was elected, while 32 percent said it had gotten worse. Only 12 percent said it had gotten better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And once again, it is Democrats taking the most dour view — 47 percent said things have stayed the same; 46 percent said they think it has gotten worse; and only 4 percent said the tone of discourse in their own communities has gotten better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that with 58 percent of Republicans and 47 percent of independents, who thought things locally have gotten better. Twenty-seven percent of GOP voters said the discourse in their community has improved, while just 9 percent of independents thought so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, 30 percent of independents said things have gotten worse locally, and only 12 percent of Republicans thought so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, half of Americans still said they think the political discourse in the country is negative, while 36 percent classified it as angry. 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Just 29 percent thought the party had stayed within acceptable bounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers are almost identical for the GOP — with 67 percent saying Republicans crossed a line in attacking Democrats, and just 27 percent said it has been within acceptable boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trump underwater as public disapproves of how Republicans handle health care, tax overhaul\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's approval rating remains stagnant and steady at 39 percent. A majority (55 percent) continue to disapprove of the job the president is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marist's past 11 surveys testing the president's approval, he hasn't risen above 39 percent, where it has been five times, and hasn't dipped below 35 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's not the typical pattern of a honeymoon,\" Miringoff said. \"This is just steady. It's his base that approves, and that's it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers could bode well for Democratic hopes in the 2018 midterms, but this poll also shows their advantage on who Americans would rather control Congress narrowing to just 3 points, 43 percent to 40 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>That's a 12-point shift from just a week earlier, when Marist showed Democrats with a 15-point advantage. It is also a deviation from other recent polls that have given Democrats the wider gap they have needed historically to take back control of the House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miringoff explained that the shift isn't due to Republicans picking up voters, but to independents going from Democrats to undecided — for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That 15-point edge also came following the big Democratic gains in Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere, which might have colored respondents' preferences. 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Additionally, one of Republicans' most-used arguments isn't resonating widely either — when asked if they'd be in favor of receiving a tax cut if it meant increasing the national deficit, two-thirds of Americans said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About 1 in 3 women says she has been subject to office sexual harassment \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll also found that just over one-third of women said they have been sexually harassed in their workplace. 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"content": "\u003cp>The partisan split in America is the highest it has been in two decades, with Republicans and Democrats holding vastly disparate views on race, immigration and the role of government, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/the-partisan-divide-on-political-values-grows-even-wider\">new study\u003c/a> from the Pew Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pew has been measuring attitudes on policy issues and political values going back to 1994, and its latest check-in finds — perhaps unsurprisingly — that Americans are more divided than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that Republicans and Democrats differ on these fundamental issues is probably not a surprise, but the magnitude of the difference is striking, and particularly how the differences have grown in recent years and where they’ve grown,” Carroll Doherty, Pew’s director of political research and one of the authors of the study, told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11621417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap.png 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap-160x227.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap-240x340.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap-375x531.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pew asked more than 5,000 respondents this summer about 10 specific political issues — including government regulation and aid, same-sex marriage and environmental regulations — and found that, on average, there was a 36-point gap between Republicans and Democrats. That’s a whopping 21-point increase since it began tracking those questions 23 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partisanship has risen markedly since 2004, the year President George W. Bush was re-elected, and has hit a new high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two decades before, there was about a 15-point gap between Republicans and Democrats on these issues, but it wasn’t that much more pronounced than differences in race or religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, how you identify politically is — by far — the starkest divider of how Americans see certain issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widest two gaps were in views about race and government aid to the poor. Overall, 41 percent of Americans said that racial discrimination is the reason black people struggle to get ahead, which is the highest mark in the survey’s history; 49 percent, however, still said that African-Americans who couldn’t advance were responsible for their own situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11621416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM.png 781w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-160x128.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-240x192.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-375x300.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-520x415.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But broken down along party lines, there’s a huge 50-point gap between the way Republicans and Democrats see the issue — almost two-thirds (64 percent) of Democrats think some African-Americans struggle to get ahead because of discrimination, while just 14 percent of Republicans think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1994, 39 percent of Democrats thought the same thing — a 25-point uptick — while just a quarter (24 percent) of Republicans thought so, a 12-point \u003cem>drop \u003c/em>in the two decades since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a 47-point gap between Democrats who believe that government should do more to help the needy (71 percent) and Republicans who agree with that statement (just 24 percent). Democrats’ belief that the government needs to do more to help is up from 58 percent in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A minority of Republicans have held that belief, and even fewer do today than a decade ago. The percentage saying so has fallen 21 points since 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On immigration, there’s also a wide chasm between the parties — 84 percent of Democrats say immigrants have strengthened the country with their “hard work and talents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a 52-point increase since 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the percentage of Republicans saying immigrants help the country is half that (42 percent). A plurality of Republicans (44 percent) believe immigrants are a burden, but that 42 percent is actually higher than in 1994 for Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is evidence of a generational shift among Republicans on social issues, with more support among younger Republicans for immigration and same-sex marriage, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On immigration, 62 percent of Republicans under 30 said immigrants strengthen the country (20 points higher than the GOP overall). Just 31 percent of Republicans 65 and older believed the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Majorities in both parties also now said that being gay should be accepted by society. But the margin is far wider among Democrats than Republicans — more than 4 in 5 (83 percent) Democrats said so, while just more than half (54 percent) of Republicans agreed. Because Democratic support has exploded, the gap between the two parties has actually gotten wider despite broader acceptance by people in both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On other issues, like environmental regulations (and whether they have hurt the economy) and use of the military versus noninterventionism, the parties have also moved in very different directions over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As is the case with all the issues Pew tested, Doherty explained that with each party being pulled further into its corner, it has been harder for legislators in Washington to reach any type of middle-ground consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These gaps on these fundamental values are underlying some of the divisions you see between Democrats and Republicans in Congress when they debate specific issues,” Doherty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11621415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM.png 805w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-800x613.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-240x184.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-375x287.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-520x399.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, for as much as people seem to lament inertia in Washington, part of it is because of public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Democrats and Republicans have worse views of each other than ever before\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pew study underscored a deep distaste for the “other side,” too — along with evidence of just how polarized society as a whole has become geographically and socially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among both Republicans and Democrats, the share of very unfavorable opinions of the other party has more than doubled in the past 23 years. In 1994, just 16 percent of Democrats said they held very unfavorable opinions of the GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two decades later, that number has practically tripled — to 44 percent. The numbers are almost identical in how Republicans view Democrats, too — 17 percent in 1994 and now 45 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Partisans have long held unfavorable views of the other party, but negative opinions are now more widely held and intensely felt than in the past,” the study notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, both parties say they overwhelmingly associate with people who share their same political beliefs — 67 percent of Democrats say a lot of their close friends are also Democrats; 57 percent of Republicans say the same thing. Only 14 percent of Republicans say they have a lot of friends in the opposing party, while just 9 percent of Democrats do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Differences in where and how we live, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-thirds of Republicans in the survey also said they prefer communities where they can have more space, land and a bigger house, while 61 percent of Democrats want a community with smaller houses and walkable amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tracks with recent trends of Republicans dominating in rural areas and Democrats struggling to make inroads there. Democrats, on the other hand, have strongholds in the cities and dense metropolitan areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With gerrymandered House districts, that’s made it easier for Republican-controlled legislatures to pack Democrats into fewer urban districts, making it increasingly necessary for Democrats to make gains in those more rural, conservative areas if they hope to gain significant seats in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies like this highlight just how difficult that will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/.\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Republicans+And+Democrats+Don%27t+Agree%2C+Or+Like+Each+Other+%E2%80%94+And+It%27s+Worse+Than+Ever&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The partisan split in America is the highest it has been in two decades, with Republicans and Democrats holding vastly disparate views on race, immigration and the role of government, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/the-partisan-divide-on-political-values-grows-even-wider\">new study\u003c/a> from the Pew Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pew has been measuring attitudes on policy issues and political values going back to 1994, and its latest check-in finds — perhaps unsurprisingly — that Americans are more divided than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that Republicans and Democrats differ on these fundamental issues is probably not a surprise, but the magnitude of the difference is striking, and particularly how the differences have grown in recent years and where they’ve grown,” Carroll Doherty, Pew’s director of political research and one of the authors of the study, told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11621417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap.png 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap-160x227.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap-240x340.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/pew-partisan-gap-375x531.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pew asked more than 5,000 respondents this summer about 10 specific political issues — including government regulation and aid, same-sex marriage and environmental regulations — and found that, on average, there was a 36-point gap between Republicans and Democrats. That’s a whopping 21-point increase since it began tracking those questions 23 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partisanship has risen markedly since 2004, the year President George W. Bush was re-elected, and has hit a new high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two decades before, there was about a 15-point gap between Republicans and Democrats on these issues, but it wasn’t that much more pronounced than differences in race or religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, how you identify politically is — by far — the starkest divider of how Americans see certain issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widest two gaps were in views about race and government aid to the poor. Overall, 41 percent of Americans said that racial discrimination is the reason black people struggle to get ahead, which is the highest mark in the survey’s history; 49 percent, however, still said that African-Americans who couldn’t advance were responsible for their own situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11621416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM.png 781w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-160x128.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-240x192.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-375x300.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.03-PM-520x415.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But broken down along party lines, there’s a huge 50-point gap between the way Republicans and Democrats see the issue — almost two-thirds (64 percent) of Democrats think some African-Americans struggle to get ahead because of discrimination, while just 14 percent of Republicans think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1994, 39 percent of Democrats thought the same thing — a 25-point uptick — while just a quarter (24 percent) of Republicans thought so, a 12-point \u003cem>drop \u003c/em>in the two decades since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a 47-point gap between Democrats who believe that government should do more to help the needy (71 percent) and Republicans who agree with that statement (just 24 percent). Democrats’ belief that the government needs to do more to help is up from 58 percent in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A minority of Republicans have held that belief, and even fewer do today than a decade ago. The percentage saying so has fallen 21 points since 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On immigration, there’s also a wide chasm between the parties — 84 percent of Democrats say immigrants have strengthened the country with their “hard work and talents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a 52-point increase since 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the percentage of Republicans saying immigrants help the country is half that (42 percent). A plurality of Republicans (44 percent) believe immigrants are a burden, but that 42 percent is actually higher than in 1994 for Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is evidence of a generational shift among Republicans on social issues, with more support among younger Republicans for immigration and same-sex marriage, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On immigration, 62 percent of Republicans under 30 said immigrants strengthen the country (20 points higher than the GOP overall). Just 31 percent of Republicans 65 and older believed the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Majorities in both parties also now said that being gay should be accepted by society. But the margin is far wider among Democrats than Republicans — more than 4 in 5 (83 percent) Democrats said so, while just more than half (54 percent) of Republicans agreed. Because Democratic support has exploded, the gap between the two parties has actually gotten wider despite broader acceptance by people in both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On other issues, like environmental regulations (and whether they have hurt the economy) and use of the military versus noninterventionism, the parties have also moved in very different directions over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As is the case with all the issues Pew tested, Doherty explained that with each party being pulled further into its corner, it has been harder for legislators in Washington to reach any type of middle-ground consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These gaps on these fundamental values are underlying some of the divisions you see between Democrats and Republicans in Congress when they debate specific issues,” Doherty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11621415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM.png 805w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-800x613.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-240x184.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-375x287.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-05-at-6.07.12-PM-520x399.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, for as much as people seem to lament inertia in Washington, part of it is because of public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Democrats and Republicans have worse views of each other than ever before\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pew study underscored a deep distaste for the “other side,” too — along with evidence of just how polarized society as a whole has become geographically and socially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among both Republicans and Democrats, the share of very unfavorable opinions of the other party has more than doubled in the past 23 years. In 1994, just 16 percent of Democrats said they held very unfavorable opinions of the GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two decades later, that number has practically tripled — to 44 percent. The numbers are almost identical in how Republicans view Democrats, too — 17 percent in 1994 and now 45 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Partisans have long held unfavorable views of the other party, but negative opinions are now more widely held and intensely felt than in the past,” the study notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, both parties say they overwhelmingly associate with people who share their same political beliefs — 67 percent of Democrats say a lot of their close friends are also Democrats; 57 percent of Republicans say the same thing. Only 14 percent of Republicans say they have a lot of friends in the opposing party, while just 9 percent of Democrats do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Differences in where and how we live, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-thirds of Republicans in the survey also said they prefer communities where they can have more space, land and a bigger house, while 61 percent of Democrats want a community with smaller houses and walkable amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tracks with recent trends of Republicans dominating in rural areas and Democrats struggling to make inroads there. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ahead of this week's inauguration of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president and the Women’s March in D.C., we reached out online to find Californians who were attending either event. We wanted to learn about their plans and why they were making the cross-country trip to be there in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The responses? There were about 100, mostly from people attending the march. There were activists -- including those focused on human, immigrant and women's rights as well as on climate change -- and Trump supporters. There were grandparents, millennials and many Gen Xers, among others, who had a story to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did we decide to do with all of that information? We opted to profile a few people from each side and to share with our audience all of the responses we got (well, all of those who agreed that we could publish them -- and they are being updated) because, at the end of the day, these historic moments are all about #wethepeople.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out the stories, and if you decide you want to share yours, fill out \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/2it9kLO\">our form\u003c/a> or create a public post on Facebook using #wethepeople … we’ll find it and add it to our post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click through to Facebook to try our #WeThePeople filter, and let President Trump know what you want him to focus on moving forward. \"#WeThePeople say: __________\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/KQED/posts/10153956063131191:0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Women's March: Mom and Daughter Empowerment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11272506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11272506 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Robbins and daughter Amanda Weissman of Pacifica. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Robbins and daughter, Amanda Weissman, of Pacifica. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Margaret Robbins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Margaret Robbins and her daughter, Amanda Weissman -- both avid Hillary Clinton supporters -- there was a simple answer to the question of whether they should go to the Women’s March on Washington: Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We spent the time mourning the election and when we heard of the news in Washington of the Women's March, Mom decided, ‘Aha, we should go to that,' ” said Weissman, 13, a seventh-grader at French American International School in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins, a recently retired lawyer living in Pacifica, said part of the decision to go to D.C., instead of the local “sister march,” was because she wanted to get her daughter out of the “bubble here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She hasn't been exposed to the kind of hatred that we've seen in some of the campaign rhetoric. I was concerned about sort of taking innocence away, in a sense, from her,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That eventually is going to happen, but is 13 the right age?” Robbins added. “I thought a lot about that, but I weighed that against having her feel empowered during this whole mess, because I know, myself, as a person who is a very strong woman, I felt a blow when this happened. I can only imagine how a 13-year-old girl must feel, not knowing what the future could hold. I wanted to make sure that she felt empowered, and that she had a voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman said that’s what she is looking for from the march -- her first protest experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm hoping to meet a lot of even more powerful women. I have a mom who's extremely confident and knows how to get through the world,” she said. “I'm hoping that whilst I'm there I will meet more people who are powerful, and hear their ideas and how to make me someone who is strong and independent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing she’ll likely bring? Her phone, so she can document the experience. “That way, 50 years later, I'll be like, hold on children, let me pull out this old device … and show you what it was like through my eyes as a 13-year-old, at only 4 feet and 11 inches tall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inauguration: For Gay Republican, a Day to Celebrate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11272697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11272697\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Juan Hernandez looks for a coat to wear to the presidential inauguration at Bossini USA in Santa Clara.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Hernandez looks for a coat to wear to the presidential inauguration at Bossini USA in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Rachel Berger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Juan Hernandez, being gay and Republican -- especially a Trump supporter -- has been difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a lot easier to come out as gay here in the Bay Area than as a Republican Trump supporter. I’ve lost a lot of friends because of it,” he said, adding that there’s been a “big backlash from the LGBT community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don't debate, they are just very aggressive with it in attacking, but I've gained a lot of new friendships through this process,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez, of Santa Clara, took his time through the campaign, deciding which Republican to support. As Trump drew closer to the nomination, he was happy with the choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw the values that Mr. Trump has and I support them,” Hernandez said. “I believe in national security, I believe in the wall, I believe in having registration for the refugees that are coming over here. Those are some of the biggest issues -- and he's the strongest with those issues -- and I'm excited to see the change that is going to happen in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez’s support of Trump led him to a rally in San Jose last summer, where he was beaten by anti-Trump protesters who broke his nose. He has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Jose, where the city attorney has said the case is not legally viable, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/government-and-politics/20161013/san-jose-judge-dismisses-three-claims-in-trump-lawsuit-but-not-claim-of-negligence\">Santa Cruz Sentinel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made it my mission for now, and it still is, to do my best to ensure that an attack like this does not happen again. I'm not going to back down. I'm going to keep pushing forward. It has been hard, there's been a lot of pressure because of it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump’s inauguration will present a moment of celebration for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am excited for something different. Something different needs to happen,” he said. “I feel a lot safer with him. He won't bow down. He is new to politics and I appreciate that. I truly do feel much more secure with him in the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inauguration: Gay Couple Joins -- In Protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11272635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11272635\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kimball Allen and his husband, Scott Wilson, on their wedding day in October 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimball Allen and his husband, Scott Wells, on their wedding day in October 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Catalina Jean Dow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just before Kimball Allen and his husband, Scott Wells, got married last fall they decided to apply to their Seattle congressman for tickets to the inauguration. Hillary Clinton had been a big supporter of gay rights and they felt they should be in D.C. to celebrate the nation's first female president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then Election Day happened and that all just shattered,” said Allen, who works in customer care at Alaska Airlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/303763044\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next ensued tough talks with family members who supported Trump, and hard feelings about the election results. Then, a week before the inauguration, their congressman’s office called. They had the tickets, did the couple want them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells' initial reaction was no, but Allen said yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel empowered that we need to represent and be that out, proud gay couple there on that lawn, on the mall -- a few hundred yards away from Trump as he's sworn into office -- and holding him accountable in front of his supporters,” said Allen, who went to high school in Oakdale (Stanislaus County) and lived in the Bay Area from 2002 to 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in their America as well,\" he added. \"And I will be proud to hold my husband’s hand as he gets sworn into office, because I can't tell you how important it is that we don't hide and we don't live in our little bubbles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is on board with their approach: A lot of friends say, \"If you show up, that's you supporting,\" Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, no, I'm not giving Trump a high-five on his victory lap,” he added. “You hear people say, ‘We're going to run to Canada,' or 'We're not going to turn on the television that day.’ No, I want to meet it in the eye and show up and say, ‘Nope, we're protesting by being a gay couple at this inauguration.’ \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inauguration: \u003cb>Reliving an 'Out-of-Bubble' Experience\u003c/b>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11274377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11274377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Corrin Rankin of Redwood City is the California Director of African-Americans for Trump.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corrin Rankin of Redwood City is the California Director of African-Americans for Trump. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Corrin Rankin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Corrin Rankin, of Redwood City, is not new to politics, but her trip to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland was an eye-opening experience. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going to the RNC was just such an amazing experience because being from California, us conservatives are few and far between sometimes, and especially along the coast,” she said. “So for me to be just in that convention center among other conservatives who are in an incredibly good mood and a positive environment, it was really amazing.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rankin runs a bail bonds business, and made a run for Redwood City Council in 2013. She’s a Republican but said there is no other candidate she would travel around the country for. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always been really excited about Donald Trump,” she said. “From the moment Donald Trump made his announcement, I said he would be the next president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After serving as a delegate at the convention, Rankin was spurred into further action: She signed up to volunteer for the campaign, and became statewide director of African-Americans for Trump.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6faedAz9AYacAApn2DcNMs8lFZEPoUKH\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, Rankin is hoping to recapture the energy of the convention; spending time celebrating and trying to meet fellow conservatives from different states. When the celebrations come to a close, Rankin is looking forward to the president-elect getting more business done in the nation’s capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that he’s a non-politician stood out the most,” she said. “When he says things like he knows how to make great deals, as a business person, that tells me that he wants to get things done, because in life and in business and in politics, you’re not always going to get 100 percent of what you want, so you have to be able to negotiate to get something accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>Women's March: Continuing a ‘Legacy of Activism’\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11273987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11273987\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Nora Cody, of Oakland, will attend the Women's March in D.C. in honor of her parents, who fled the U.S. during the McCarthy era.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-520x780.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nora Cody, of Oakland, will attend the Women's March in D.C. in honor of her parents, who fled the U.S. during the McCarthy era. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nora Cody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Oakland’s Nora Cody, the Women’s March will be following in the footsteps of her parents, who were both activists and involved with the Communist Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That was during McCarthyism and they felt threatened,” she said. “The FBI had come to the door, and they made the decision to go abroad and leave the country.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nora’s parents spent time living in London and Mexico City before finally deciding it was safe enough to return to the U.S. In 1956, they co-founded Cody's Books in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Nora found out about the Women’s March on Washington, she reached out to her family across the country -- pitching the march as an opportunity to pay homage to the defiance of her parents and continuing a “legacy of activism.” She’ll be joined in D.C by her husband, three siblings and several cousins.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important that as many people as possible show that what Trump and his administration are planning to do is not OK,” Cody said. “In particular, the threats to women’s health and women’s rights. I have a 20-year-old daughter and that’s very frightening to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Cody's parents have passed away, she’ll make sure their spirit is with the protesters in D.C. She plans to march holding a poster with pictures of her mom and dad, as a reminder of the dangers of dissent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That could totally happen again and we can’t forget that history, both of fascism [in World War II] and the shadow of the House Un-American Activities Committee,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inauguration: Down to Governing and Achieving Dreams\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11273983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11273983\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-800x765.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Simpfenderfer, 54, of Bellflower in Los Angeles County, and his wife are attending the Trump inauguration in D.C.\" width=\"800\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-800x765.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-160x153.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-1020x975.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-1180x1128.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-960x918.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-240x229.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-375x359.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-520x497.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Simpfenderfer, 54, of Bellflower in Los Angeles County, and his wife are attending the Trump inauguration in D.C. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mike Simpfenderfer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mike Simpfenderfer has attended other presidential inaugurations: Ronald Reagan in 1984 and George H. W. Bush in 1988, but Donald Trump's is going to be special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpfenderfer, 54, of Bellflower in Los Angeles County, said that’s because Trump energized people who had never before been involved in the process -- or had lost hope in it and dropped out. It’s something he saw at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and at a Trump rally in Anaheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You constantly heard the message, ‘I've never been around to do this before. I didn't think I mattered. I didn't really think anyone cared about me,'” said Simpfenderfer, a branch manager at a mortgage bank. \"The fact that he has been able to get people to re-engage or to engage in voting -- get involved with what makes America special -- you got to go see that change of power that goes on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to be able to tell my grandkids as they grow older, ‘Grandpa went and saw, participated,’\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is Simpfenderfer, a father of four, looking forward to this inauguration week? The All American Ball on Jan. 19, which honors veterans and others who have made significant contributions to the nation, the prayer breakfast at the Trump Hotel the next day, and of course, the inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politically, change has finally occurred. So many people were so frustrated for so long, and now we're able to see that it is finally taking place,” he said, noting he felt “joyful” and “optimistic” with Trump’s inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he is looking beyond this week to the country’s next chapter and Trump’s pledge to get down to work immediately. Yes, Trump has offended some people, but Simpfenderfer thinks ultimately the new president will re-energize people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people aren't dreaming anymore or they're dreaming really small,” he said. “John Kennedy talked about dreaming, reaching goals. Ronald Reagan talked about being able to dream the American Dream. Donald Trump is going to be delivering on the ability for people to dream. That's going to be exciting to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News' Rachel Berger contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">[storifyTestMirandaDC]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ahead of this week's inauguration of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president and the Women’s March in D.C., we reached out online to find Californians who were attending either event. We wanted to learn about their plans and why they were making the cross-country trip to be there in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The responses? There were about 100, mostly from people attending the march. There were activists -- including those focused on human, immigrant and women's rights as well as on climate change -- and Trump supporters. There were grandparents, millennials and many Gen Xers, among others, who had a story to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did we decide to do with all of that information? We opted to profile a few people from each side and to share with our audience all of the responses we got (well, all of those who agreed that we could publish them -- and they are being updated) because, at the end of the day, these historic moments are all about #wethepeople.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out the stories, and if you decide you want to share yours, fill out \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/2it9kLO\">our form\u003c/a> or create a public post on Facebook using #wethepeople … we’ll find it and add it to our post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click through to Facebook to try our #WeThePeople filter, and let President Trump know what you want him to focus on moving forward. \"#WeThePeople say: __________\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/KQED/posts/10153956063131191:0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Women's March: Mom and Daughter Empowerment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11272506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11272506 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Robbins and daughter Amanda Weissman of Pacifica. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23624_Robbins_RR-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Robbins and daughter, Amanda Weissman, of Pacifica. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Margaret Robbins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Margaret Robbins and her daughter, Amanda Weissman -- both avid Hillary Clinton supporters -- there was a simple answer to the question of whether they should go to the Women’s March on Washington: Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We spent the time mourning the election and when we heard of the news in Washington of the Women's March, Mom decided, ‘Aha, we should go to that,' ” said Weissman, 13, a seventh-grader at French American International School in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins, a recently retired lawyer living in Pacifica, said part of the decision to go to D.C., instead of the local “sister march,” was because she wanted to get her daughter out of the “bubble here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She hasn't been exposed to the kind of hatred that we've seen in some of the campaign rhetoric. I was concerned about sort of taking innocence away, in a sense, from her,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That eventually is going to happen, but is 13 the right age?” Robbins added. “I thought a lot about that, but I weighed that against having her feel empowered during this whole mess, because I know, myself, as a person who is a very strong woman, I felt a blow when this happened. I can only imagine how a 13-year-old girl must feel, not knowing what the future could hold. I wanted to make sure that she felt empowered, and that she had a voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman said that’s what she is looking for from the march -- her first protest experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm hoping to meet a lot of even more powerful women. I have a mom who's extremely confident and knows how to get through the world,” she said. “I'm hoping that whilst I'm there I will meet more people who are powerful, and hear their ideas and how to make me someone who is strong and independent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing she’ll likely bring? Her phone, so she can document the experience. “That way, 50 years later, I'll be like, hold on children, let me pull out this old device … and show you what it was like through my eyes as a 13-year-old, at only 4 feet and 11 inches tall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inauguration: For Gay Republican, a Day to Celebrate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11272697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11272697\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Juan Hernandez looks for a coat to wear to the presidential inauguration at Bossini USA in Santa Clara.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23627_JuanKim-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Hernandez looks for a coat to wear to the presidential inauguration at Bossini USA in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Rachel Berger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Juan Hernandez, being gay and Republican -- especially a Trump supporter -- has been difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a lot easier to come out as gay here in the Bay Area than as a Republican Trump supporter. I’ve lost a lot of friends because of it,” he said, adding that there’s been a “big backlash from the LGBT community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don't debate, they are just very aggressive with it in attacking, but I've gained a lot of new friendships through this process,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez, of Santa Clara, took his time through the campaign, deciding which Republican to support. As Trump drew closer to the nomination, he was happy with the choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw the values that Mr. Trump has and I support them,” Hernandez said. “I believe in national security, I believe in the wall, I believe in having registration for the refugees that are coming over here. Those are some of the biggest issues -- and he's the strongest with those issues -- and I'm excited to see the change that is going to happen in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez’s support of Trump led him to a rally in San Jose last summer, where he was beaten by anti-Trump protesters who broke his nose. He has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Jose, where the city attorney has said the case is not legally viable, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/government-and-politics/20161013/san-jose-judge-dismisses-three-claims-in-trump-lawsuit-but-not-claim-of-negligence\">Santa Cruz Sentinel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made it my mission for now, and it still is, to do my best to ensure that an attack like this does not happen again. I'm not going to back down. I'm going to keep pushing forward. It has been hard, there's been a lot of pressure because of it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump’s inauguration will present a moment of celebration for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am excited for something different. Something different needs to happen,” he said. “I feel a lot safer with him. He won't bow down. He is new to politics and I appreciate that. I truly do feel much more secure with him in the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inauguration: Gay Couple Joins -- In Protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11272635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11272635\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kimball Allen and his husband, Scott Wilson, on their wedding day in October 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23626_Allen-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimball Allen and his husband, Scott Wells, on their wedding day in October 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Catalina Jean Dow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just before Kimball Allen and his husband, Scott Wells, got married last fall they decided to apply to their Seattle congressman for tickets to the inauguration. Hillary Clinton had been a big supporter of gay rights and they felt they should be in D.C. to celebrate the nation's first female president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then Election Day happened and that all just shattered,” said Allen, who works in customer care at Alaska Airlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/303763044&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/303763044'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next ensued tough talks with family members who supported Trump, and hard feelings about the election results. Then, a week before the inauguration, their congressman’s office called. They had the tickets, did the couple want them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells' initial reaction was no, but Allen said yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel empowered that we need to represent and be that out, proud gay couple there on that lawn, on the mall -- a few hundred yards away from Trump as he's sworn into office -- and holding him accountable in front of his supporters,” said Allen, who went to high school in Oakdale (Stanislaus County) and lived in the Bay Area from 2002 to 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in their America as well,\" he added. \"And I will be proud to hold my husband’s hand as he gets sworn into office, because I can't tell you how important it is that we don't hide and we don't live in our little bubbles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is on board with their approach: A lot of friends say, \"If you show up, that's you supporting,\" Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, no, I'm not giving Trump a high-five on his victory lap,” he added. “You hear people say, ‘We're going to run to Canada,' or 'We're not going to turn on the television that day.’ No, I want to meet it in the eye and show up and say, ‘Nope, we're protesting by being a gay couple at this inauguration.’ \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inauguration: \u003cb>Reliving an 'Out-of-Bubble' Experience\u003c/b>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11274377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11274377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Corrin Rankin of Redwood City is the California Director of African-Americans for Trump.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23652_Corrin-qut-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corrin Rankin of Redwood City is the California Director of African-Americans for Trump. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Corrin Rankin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Corrin Rankin, of Redwood City, is not new to politics, but her trip to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland was an eye-opening experience. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going to the RNC was just such an amazing experience because being from California, us conservatives are few and far between sometimes, and especially along the coast,” she said. “So for me to be just in that convention center among other conservatives who are in an incredibly good mood and a positive environment, it was really amazing.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rankin runs a bail bonds business, and made a run for Redwood City Council in 2013. She’s a Republican but said there is no other candidate she would travel around the country for. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always been really excited about Donald Trump,” she said. “From the moment Donald Trump made his announcement, I said he would be the next president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After serving as a delegate at the convention, Rankin was spurred into further action: She signed up to volunteer for the campaign, and became statewide director of African-Americans for Trump.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, Rankin is hoping to recapture the energy of the convention; spending time celebrating and trying to meet fellow conservatives from different states. When the celebrations come to a close, Rankin is looking forward to the president-elect getting more business done in the nation’s capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that he’s a non-politician stood out the most,” she said. “When he says things like he knows how to make great deals, as a business person, that tells me that he wants to get things done, because in life and in business and in politics, you’re not always going to get 100 percent of what you want, so you have to be able to negotiate to get something accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>Women's March: Continuing a ‘Legacy of Activism’\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11273987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11273987\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Nora Cody, of Oakland, will attend the Women's March in D.C. in honor of her parents, who fled the U.S. during the McCarthy era.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut-520x780.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23650_Cody-qut.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nora Cody, of Oakland, will attend the Women's March in D.C. in honor of her parents, who fled the U.S. during the McCarthy era. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nora Cody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Oakland’s Nora Cody, the Women’s March will be following in the footsteps of her parents, who were both activists and involved with the Communist Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That was during McCarthyism and they felt threatened,” she said. “The FBI had come to the door, and they made the decision to go abroad and leave the country.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nora’s parents spent time living in London and Mexico City before finally deciding it was safe enough to return to the U.S. In 1956, they co-founded Cody's Books in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Nora found out about the Women’s March on Washington, she reached out to her family across the country -- pitching the march as an opportunity to pay homage to the defiance of her parents and continuing a “legacy of activism.” She’ll be joined in D.C by her husband, three siblings and several cousins.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important that as many people as possible show that what Trump and his administration are planning to do is not OK,” Cody said. “In particular, the threats to women’s health and women’s rights. I have a 20-year-old daughter and that’s very frightening to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Cody's parents have passed away, she’ll make sure their spirit is with the protesters in D.C. She plans to march holding a poster with pictures of her mom and dad, as a reminder of the dangers of dissent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That could totally happen again and we can’t forget that history, both of fascism [in World War II] and the shadow of the House Un-American Activities Committee,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inauguration: Down to Governing and Achieving Dreams\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11273983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11273983\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-800x765.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Simpfenderfer, 54, of Bellflower in Los Angeles County, and his wife are attending the Trump inauguration in D.C.\" width=\"800\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-800x765.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-160x153.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-1020x975.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-1180x1128.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-960x918.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-240x229.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-375x359.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-520x497.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23649_MikeSimpfenderfer-qut.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Simpfenderfer, 54, of Bellflower in Los Angeles County, and his wife are attending the Trump inauguration in D.C. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mike Simpfenderfer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mike Simpfenderfer has attended other presidential inaugurations: Ronald Reagan in 1984 and George H. W. Bush in 1988, but Donald Trump's is going to be special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpfenderfer, 54, of Bellflower in Los Angeles County, said that’s because Trump energized people who had never before been involved in the process -- or had lost hope in it and dropped out. It’s something he saw at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and at a Trump rally in Anaheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You constantly heard the message, ‘I've never been around to do this before. I didn't think I mattered. I didn't really think anyone cared about me,'” said Simpfenderfer, a branch manager at a mortgage bank. \"The fact that he has been able to get people to re-engage or to engage in voting -- get involved with what makes America special -- you got to go see that change of power that goes on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to be able to tell my grandkids as they grow older, ‘Grandpa went and saw, participated,’\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is Simpfenderfer, a father of four, looking forward to this inauguration week? The All American Ball on Jan. 19, which honors veterans and others who have made significant contributions to the nation, the prayer breakfast at the Trump Hotel the next day, and of course, the inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politically, change has finally occurred. 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She is originally from New York City. Her parents were immigrants and she’s concerned about some of the anti-immigrant rhetoric she’s heard this election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My children’s paternal grandparents were from Germany and they had to flee Germany because of Hitler,” she said. “You know, they had the time with the Japanese in internment camps. I don’t want to see that again. I really don’t want to see that again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still Nagel is pleased with the overall direction of the country. She giggled as she proclaimed she’ll be voting for the first woman President of the United States. But she acknowledges political discussion have become tense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of my best friends here, she’s voting for the other party. We don’t talk about it here because we want to stay friends,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nagel plans to vote for Democratic Congressman Ami Bera too. He squeaked out wins in 2012 and 2014. 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He doesn’t share Nagel’s enthusiasm for the path the country is on. Orton said more than 20 years in the military taught him the difference between right and wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like everything has changed so much. That it’s just ridiculous. Too liberal, this country is way too liberal,” he said. “They don’t enforce the laws. When they do enforce the laws they say, oh he’s innocent. It’s just crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orton’s wife Shirley, also a Republican, sat next to him and echoed his sentiments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really concerned about my grandkids,” she said. “It seems like there’s no moral authority anymore, that people can get away with almost anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nagel and the Ortons represent just one segment of the district’s population, they’re older and white. But the \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/mycd/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">district is diverse\u003c/a>. It spans from the upscale City of Folsom to the suburbs of Elk Grove. And it has sizable Hispanic and Asian populations as well.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Forget about Hillary vs. Bernie or Trump vs. Everyone Else. The top billing at this weekend's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cadem.org/convention\" target=\"_blank\">California Democratic Party Convention \u003c/a>in San Jose is Kamala vs. Loretta. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kamalaharris.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Harris\u003c/a> vs. \u003ca href=\"http://www.loretta.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Sanchez\u003c/a>, that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state attorney general and the Orange County congresswoman are vying for an all-important party endorsement from the 3,000 or so delegates and insiders gathering at the San Jose Convention Center. The vote will be taken Saturday, with the results announced that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249101731\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's tough to win that party endorsement in contested primaries with no incumbent running, as in this race to fill Sen. Barbara Boxer's seat. It'll take 60 percent-plus-one votes to claim the official party nod. Making it especially tough is that delegates can also vote \"no endorsement.\" But it's also an expectations game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathan Click, spokesman for Kamala Harris' campaign, downplayed her chances, noting how rare it is for Democratic candidates in contested races to win the endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"XnR2Hk3Yewgh45O0CV2Dnykg6lMPSvRF\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last time it happened was 2010,\" Click said, referring to insurance commissioner candidate \u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0500-about-us/01-commissioner/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Jones\u003c/a>, who managed to win the endorsement over state Assemblyman Hector De La Torre from Los Angeles. Jones went on to easily win the primary before defeating the Republican candidate, Mike Villines. Jones has already jumped into the 2018 race for attorney general. He may have the inside track to be appointed attorney general by Gov. 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Blocking her would be considered a victory for Sanchez, who has \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pc-loretta-sanchez-comment-muslims-20151211-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">angered Muslims\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article21200154.html\" target=\"_blank\">Native Americans\u003c/a> in the past few months with comments many regarded as insensitive at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other weekend highlights include a Saturday afternoon speech by Vice President Joe Biden, a favorite among rank-and-file Democrats, who see him as a \"regular Joe\" champion of the working class. Biden is sure to address the boiling debate in Washington over President Obama's pending nomination to fill the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. After that he's off to Los Angeles and the Oscars, where he'll introduce Lady Gaga, who will perform \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWBrN7QV6Y&noredirect=1\" target=\"_blank\">\"Til It Happens to You,\"\u003c/a> nominated as Best Original Song from the documentary \"The Hunting Ground\" about sexual assaults on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be other endorsement skirmishes too, notably embattled San Jose congressman Mike Honda, who is hoping for a boost in his re-election rematch with Silicon Valley attorney Ro Khanna. Honda failed to win an early endorsement from the party, which might be a bit spooked by a House ethics investigation into Honda's fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10879158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10879158\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS12583_KhannaHonda-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Ro Khanna (L) and Mike Honda\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS12583_KhannaHonda.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS12583_KhannaHonda-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ro Khanna (L) and Mike Honda \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ro Khanna, Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, retiring Sen. 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Both Newsom and Pérez were facing Democratic primary opponents with strong enough blocks of support to prevent them from getting that 60 percent-plus-one threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the expectations game, both Harris and Sanchez have been traveling the state in recent weeks, trying hard to lock down support from delegates all over California. Harris, who leads Sanchez in fundraising and polling, is the only one with a reasonable chance of winning the endorsement. Blocking her would be considered a victory for Sanchez, who has \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pc-loretta-sanchez-comment-muslims-20151211-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">angered Muslims\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article21200154.html\" target=\"_blank\">Native Americans\u003c/a> in the past few months with comments many regarded as insensitive at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other weekend highlights include a Saturday afternoon speech by Vice President Joe Biden, a favorite among rank-and-file Democrats, who see him as a \"regular Joe\" champion of the working class. Biden is sure to address the boiling debate in Washington over President Obama's pending nomination to fill the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. After that he's off to Los Angeles and the Oscars, where he'll introduce Lady Gaga, who will perform \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWBrN7QV6Y&noredirect=1\" target=\"_blank\">\"Til It Happens to You,\"\u003c/a> nominated as Best Original Song from the documentary \"The Hunting Ground\" about sexual assaults on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be other endorsement skirmishes too, notably embattled San Jose congressman Mike Honda, who is hoping for a boost in his re-election rematch with Silicon Valley attorney Ro Khanna. Honda failed to win an early endorsement from the party, which might be a bit spooked by a House ethics investigation into Honda's fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10879158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10879158\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS12583_KhannaHonda-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Ro Khanna (L) and Mike Honda\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS12583_KhannaHonda.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/RS12583_KhannaHonda-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ro Khanna (L) and Mike Honda \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ro Khanna, Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, retiring Sen. 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