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5 Things You Should Know About Mike Pence's Foreign Policy
Last week, Donald Trump announced Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate. Prior to his service as governor, Pence represented the Hoosier State in the House of Representatives from 2001 to 20 ...
18 Jul, 2016
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An Imperfect System: Presidential Elections Where The Voters Didn't Decide the Outcome
“Americans vote for their president.”Well, yes and no. America’s presidential election system relies on the Electoral College, a group of men and women chosen by state parties to vote in their favor. ...
15 Jul, 2016
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Cracking The Ceiling: Is Trump Turning the Tide on Clinton?
Ahh, the ebbs and flows of a presidential campaign. One day the polls say you have zero chance of winning, the next day you’re holding a slim lead.So goes the battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald ...
14 Jul, 2016
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2 min read
Millennial Candidates: The Key to Breaking Government Gridlock?
While Congress has continued to diversify over the last decade in terms of both gender and race, one element that has not changed is the average age of the institution’s members. The 113th Congress ha ...
30 Jun, 2016
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4 min read
Between A Rock and A Hard Place: Where Will Party Members Turn in November?
The Republican and Democratic parties are facing an interesting dilemma this year. How do party members get behind their respective nominees and their campaigns and vote for them even if they have str ...
09 Jun, 2016
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3 min read
Why Science and Politics Will Never Make Good Bedfellows
It was 1897 and amateur mathematician Edward J. Goodwin had done what scholars had been baffled by for over 2,000 years: squaring a circle. Without going into any lengthy mathematical discourse, he ha ...
31 May, 2016
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2016 Primary Results Indicate Many Independents Are Not Moderates
By sheer statistical coincidence, the percentage of Americans who self-identify as independents (approximately 40 percent) is nearly identical to the percentage of Americans who self-identify as moder ...
19 May, 2016
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4 min read
Cruz Desperately Needs to Sink A 'Granny Shot' in the Hoosier State
Ever since Cruz's speech where he shamelessly set up the scene from the 1986 film Hoosiers, I haven't been able to get the movie out of my mind.I hate it when that happens. Now whenever the ...
03 May, 2016
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Why More Needs to be Done to Give Early Voters a Meaningful Vote
Zoom In: Frontrunners are full steam ahead in Acela PrimaryLast Tuesday, voters in the Acela Primary made their voices heard. Donald Trump swept the Republican primaries by large margins. In the ...
02 May, 2016
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Is Ted Cruz Eligible to Run for President? Illinois Judge to Weigh In
In Illinois, a judge is expected to rule whether one of the top Republican challengers to Donald Trump is eligible to run for president.Born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father, the mat ...
22 Feb, 2016
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2 min read