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The past week's political events that help shape American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voters from the rolls. Millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters, are at risk. At the heart of this voter-roll scrub is the Interstate Crosscheck program, which has generated a master list of nearly 7 million names.Crosscheck list of suspected double voters has been compiled by matching names from roughly 110 million voter records from participating states.The three states’ lists are heavily weighted with names such as Jackson, Garcia, Patel and Kim — ones common among minorities, who vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Indeed, fully 1 in 7 African-Americans in those 27 states.“It’s Jim Crow all over again,” says the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who cofounded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr  Al Jazeera America.

Crosscheck

http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/interactive.html

Goldwater’s base was in the South and West, where his vote against the Civil Rights Act and in favor of states’ rights endeared him to a white electorate, and on the whole, Goldwater’s geographic and demographic coalition has endured within the GOP. Democrats owe a debt of gratitude to Goldwater for creating a near-consensus among African-Americans for their party. In an ad that was produced but never aired, a Ku Klux Klan leader, with a burning cross and hooded figures filling the screen, is quoted as denouncing “niggerism, Catholicism, Judaism—all the isms” and in the same breath saying, “I like Barry Goldwater; he needs our help.” Dr LARRY  SABATO

The governors of a number of states, including New York and New Jersey, recently imposed 21-day quarantines on health care workers returning to the United States from regions of the world where they may have cared for patients with Ebola virus disease. We understand their motivation for this policy — to protect the citizens of their states from contracting this often-fatal illness. This approach, however, is not scientifically based, is unfair and unwise, and will impede essential efforts to stop these awful outbreaks of Ebola disease at their source, which is the only satisfactory goal. The governors' action is like driving a carpet tack with a sledgehammer: it gets the job done but overall is more destructive than beneficial. New England Journal Medicine

The Monday Morning Quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and much more.

El lunes por la mañana El mariscal de campo es una persona que juzga y critica algo después del evento (el Diccionario Oxford).

Echamos un vistazo a los programas dominicales y mucho más.

With each team winning two games, we're down to a best-of-three championship series. Game 5 is pivotal for both teams; however, it's the final stand at home for the Giants. Rest assured, they'll be aiming to continue riding their Game 4 momentum. The Royals, on the other hand, need to bounce back in a big way to quickly stop the bleeding.Both of these clubs have now gone through their entire pitching rotations. Starters Madison Bumgarner and James Shields will take the mound for the second time in this series, and they'll have their work cut out for them against lineups that combined for 28 hits Saturday evening. the Bleacherreport

The takeaway here isn’t how things can go so wrong as much as it is the Royals’ remarkable ability to keep things so right over the last month.

“Most nights we do a pretty good job doing it,” Yost says. “It just didn’t work tonight.”The Royals are two wins from a world championship because they’ve kept the trains running on time. Losing game four is more of a reminder of the infrastructure they need in place to celebrate. Sam Mellinge Kansas Star

With apologies to the stats crowd, an all-wild-card World Series has to have an element of pluck. Who outgrinds whom? Were it completely about talent, these two teams would have won their divisions, no?With their bid for another championship slipping from their grasp in Game 4 Saturday night, the Giants channelled whatever fortitude they could muster and tied the World Series at two wins apiece when they rallied from three runs down and steamrolled the Royals 11-4. Michael Macor The Chronicle

The past week's political events that help shape American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

Republican Charlie Baker has opened up a 9-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley, 45 percent to 36 percent, according to a new Boston Globe poll.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has not set any such standards, acknowledging that “it is difficult to establish a relationship between a person’s THC blood or plasma concentration and performance impairing effects.” The research that has been done generally shows the effects of marijuana to act as a relaxant. While alcohol has a direct influence on violent behavior, marijuana does not increase the odds of any type of aggression, Several experts said they were surprised by the notation of impairment in the toxicology report because of complicating factors in measuring the drug. It is unclear whether the drug tests were performed on whole blood or plasma, which can produce different results from the same sample. The concentration of the drug in plasma will measure about twice as high as the concentration in whole blood, said Alfred Staubus of the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy.ST Louis Post