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On July 22, Wikileaks released nearly 20,000 e-mails among DNC staffers, a number of which suggest bias against the Sanders campaign during the Democratic primary. Some e-mails show high-level DNC members trying to undermine the Sanders campaign, and others reveal the attitude of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz toward Sanders and his campaign manager, Jeff Weaver. In light of these leaks, Wasserman Schultz has stated that she will resign as the head of the DNC after the national convention i

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 2013. Pence has accumulated a foreign policy record that may influence how he might advise Trump as vice president. The following are five Mike Pence foreign policy and national security positions and statements: 1. Patriot Act Pence spoke on the House floor in 2001 urging passage of the Patriot A

“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. When Americans go to the polls, they choose their candidate of choice, and trust that the party electors will vote as the citizens have chosen. Each state has a certain number of electors: California has the most, with 55; other states, like Montana, Wyoming, and Alaska, have as few as three. The

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 Trump. The FBI investigation, the drama of picking a VP, which according to several sources is going to be Indiana Governor Mike Pence, and the many surrogates working hard to flood the airwaves with their talking points and finely coiffed hair and suits. It’s all very important and possibly ga

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 had an average age of 57 years and with Senators, it was 62 years old. However, there are some notable millennials (18-33) running for Congress this year. In order to run for Congress, one needs to be 25-years-old and 30 to run for Senate, so only the older group of this generation can even run for C

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 strong feelings against the nominee's positions and their perceived lack of personal integrity? In an election year when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have favorability ratings close to that of Ivan Drago in Rocky IV after he killed Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, will party members vote the pa

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 had created a proof to what had been thought of as impossible -- the Holy Grail of constructible geometry (that is, he had done this only with a compass and straight-edge). He was arguably proud of his accomplishment, and wanted to actually copyright his proof, so that anyone using it would have to p

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 moderates. This coincidence has nurtured a common misunderstanding: that independents are mostly moderates who want members of both parties to move toward the center. But a growing body of literature studying the precise political attitudes of the public – and especially moderates and independents – is

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 candidate does anything, I associate it with the rest of the movie. So, with the clock ticking down, we're now in the scene where 'Ollie,' the smallest guy on the team, gets fouled and takes his free-throws (granny-shot style) to win the game to get them to the next level -- the championship round. And th

Zoom In: Frontrunners are full steam ahead in Acela Primary Last Tuesday, voters in the Acela Primary made their voices heard. Donald Trump swept the Republican primaries by large margins. In the wake of his first majority win in New York’s primary, Trump earned 56.7% in Pennsylvania with Ted Cruz in a distant second at 21.6%. Trump also won 57.9% in Connecticut, 60.8% in Delaware, 54.4% in Maryland, and 63.8% in Rhode Island. These latter large percentage point wins were followed by John Kasic