End Notes from Stop the Steal

Ben's 2nd book, Stop the Steal, is only available in paperback.  Which makes viewing the sources noted in the End Notes a bit of a problem to find.  So, here, the solution.

1.   https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_affiliations_of_registered_voters
2.   https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Polling_Index:_Congressional_approval_rating
3.   https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2020:_Incumbent_win_rates_by_state
4.   You will find little evidence online for this assertion.  I contend that Big Money rarely impacts elections’ outcomes, it rather follows winners into their offices.
5.   a “self-fulfilling prophecy.”  See the film Stand and Deliver, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094027/
6.   Aristotle, Jefferson, and nearly every serious philosopher of politics and democracy
7.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WxdaU9AsnU
8.   https://today.yougov.com/ratings/politics/popularity/politicians/all
9.   https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/logic_in_argumentative_writing/fallacies.html
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#Definition
11. https://citizensandscholars.org/resource/national-survey-finds-just-1-in-3-americans-would-pass-citizenship-test/
12. falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson, who nevertheless preached it until he became president
13. Unfit -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/01/unfit.html
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_1948_presidential_campaign#Whistle-stop_tour
15. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/20/presidents-ranking-trump-biden-list
16. “There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them"
17. https://wellstonememorial.org/about-paul-wellstone/
18. https://presidentialgreatnessproject.com/
19. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/07/deficits-dont-matter-so-why-are-democrats-complaining-about-them-216946/
20. Deficits Don't Matter -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2014/11/deficits-dont-matter.html
21. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
22. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wealth-distribution-in-america/
23. https://www.progressivecaucuscenter.org/the-ceo-pay-problem-and-what-we-can-do-about-it
24. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthiest-10-americans-own-93-033623827.html
25. Dems ... Losing ... Messaging ... Socialism -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/05/dems-socialism.html
26. https://captimes.com/opinion/column/dave_zweifel/plain-talk-capitalism-needs-constant-saving-from-itself/article_88706a7d-5226-52d8-9a71-1db6e9676c9e.html
27. A Wealth Tax -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-wealth-tax.html
28. Being Jeff Bezos -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2020/02/being-jeff-bezos.html
29. https://legaljournal.princeton.edu/the-economic-impact-of-prison-labor-for-incarcerated-individuals-and-taxpayers/
30. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/crime-rate-by-state
31. https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/quarterly
32. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/politics/fact-check-trump-falsely-claims-us-crime-stats-are-only-going-up-most-went-down-last-year-including-massive-drop-in-murder/index.html
33. https://aaqi.org/
34. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legislation
35. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/ending-war-drugs-numbers/
36. https://web.archive.org/web/20001025070707/https://www.nationalreview.com/12feb96/drug.html
37. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/years-of-fossil-fuel-reserves-left
38. https://www.crfb.org/blogs/breakdown-foreign-aid-obligations
39. A Different Health Care Paradigm -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-different-health-care-paradigm.html
40. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_immigration_laws
41. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing
42. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_State_of_Palestine
43. A Brief for Israel -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-brief-for-israel.html
44. https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/this-day-in-politics-093504
45. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel#List_by_the_International_Institute_for_Strategic_Studies
46. https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-fpl/
47. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/newsroom/press-kits/2023/iphi/20230912-iphi-slides-poverty.pdf
48. Social Security, A Reality Check -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2018/03/social-security-reality-check.html
49. {Monthly Payment = ((Principal – Paid Off Principal Sum) * (1.00 + (total years * <low interest rate>))) / (years remaining * 12)}
50. On Cancelling Student Debt -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2022/08/on-cancelling-student-debt_28.html
51. https://news.gallup.com/poll/4732/supreme-court.aspx
52. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf
53. The Leak -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-leak.html
54. https://represent.us/americas-corruption-problem/
55. Money in Politics -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2022/04/money-in-politics.html
    Does Big Money Always Win Elections? -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2019/11/does-big-money-always-win-elections.html
56. The Perils of Democracy -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-perils-of-democracy.html
    Doomsday Democracy -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/07/doomsday-democracy.html
    Democracy -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2015/07/democracy.html
    The Irony of Democracy -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-irony-of-democracy.html
57. https://news.gallup.com/poll/508169/historically-low-faith-institutions-continues.aspx
58. https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/05/06/web-extra-the-lawyer-who-argued-for-roe-in-roe-v-wade
59. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEZITdTFfPY
60. https://nrlc.org/uploads/factsheets/FS01AbortionintheUS.pdf
61. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/
62. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-educated-countries
63. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/20-843
64. https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/SAS-BP-Civilian-Firearms-Numbers.pdf
65. #2A -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/04/2a.html
    A Study of Gun Violence in the USA -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2016/07/gun-violence.html
66. https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/
67. Wedding Cakes -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2018/06/wedding-cakes.html
    Obergefell v. Hodges -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2015/04/obergefell-v-hodges.html
68. On Being Trans -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2023/07/on-being-trans.html
69. Our Secular Nation -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2023/06/our-secular-nation.html
    School Prayer -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2018/11/school-prayer.html
70. Lying is Legal -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2019/12/lying-is-legal.html
    Freedom of Speech -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2014/07/freedom-of-speech.html
71. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin#List
72. A Republic, Not a Democracy -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-republic-not-democracy.html
73. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States#Statistics
74. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/georgia-governor-signs-three-voter-suppression-laws/
75. Qualifications -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2020/08/Qualifications.html
76. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert
77. In addition to facts and opinions, declarative sentences can be beliefs, guesses and predictions, explanations, and jokes.
78. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/america-most-trusted-news-anchors-1235906257/
79. Donald Trump is a one-man argument for making exceptions to the First Amendment’s freedom of speech clause.  See “Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years” -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/
80. The Value of Civic Literacy -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-value-of-civic-literacy.html
81. https://citizensandscholars.org/resource/national-survey-finds-just-1-in-3-americans-would-pass-citizenship-test/
82. A Civics Class -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-civics-class.html
83. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations
84. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ussher
85. An Open Letter to American Creationists -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2017/02/creationist-letter.html
86. https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/
87. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
88. https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population
89. Be Fruitful and Multiply -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2016/08/be-fruitful.html
90. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065234/