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Photo: Chris Clark I’m not going to talk about abortion or, to use a Washington representative’s recent phrase, “that rape thing.” I’m not going to talk about percentages or numbers, herding women into corrals of data for candidates to pick at or divvy up. Women matter this election because they fought tirelessly to earn suffrage and, in their attempt to exercise that right, are simplified and objectified. On October 23, Gallup released a poll examining the gender gap in this year’s election.

Photo: Official White House Photo // Pete Souza Two of the prime terrorist suspects in the Benghazi attack have been captured (one is dead), dozens more have been arrested in Libya, and the suspect group is dispersed and hunted, with its Benghazi headquarters dismantled. “This issue of Benghazi is really bubbling up,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, said on Fox News October 28, echoing a talking point repeated on other networks and elsewhere by Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz

Official prescription tablet for medicinal alcohol, 1933. Credit: The Rose Melnick Medical Museum 1. Marijuana prohibition violates liberty. America has a long and proud tradition of believing in, and increasingly upholding, the right of its citizens to make their own choices about their own bodies, their own property, their own finances, and their own lives. On the progressive left, activists have worked hard for decades to guarantee that civil liberties are respected in America and a common

The road to the presidency has frequently been through Ohio. Since 1960, no Republican has won the presidency without winning this state. The top two candidates have criss-crossed through Ohio the entire election cycle— Romney was there over the weekend and Obama is poised to head there this upcoming week (even leaving DC early to avoid Hurricane Sandy and ensure he can make it to the Buckeye State). To much of the nation, all the attention on the presidential race has obscured the other issues

Credit: Leadertelegram.com Both Tommy Thompson and Tammy Baldwin, fighting for the Wisconsin Senate seat, herald themselves to be advocates of the middle class, courting independent middle class voters in a race that appears, by most polls, to be nearly a dead heat, if slightly leaning in Baldwin’s favor. Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was Wisconsin’s longest serving Governor, and served the George W. Bush administration as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Tammy Baldwin

Credit: Realclearpolitics.com With the election only ten days away, many Americans are looking to presidential polls as a means for predicting the outcome of the election and possibly making the decision to vote for one candidate over the other. Many voters recognize that the state they reside in will go to one candidate over the other regardless of their vote, but people still vote for the opposing candidate. Americans understand that the outcome of the election is determined by the Electoral

Photo: Wikimedia Commons In a loft just outside Downtown Los Angeles, Meghan Leuders, is packing up her things. The recent Tufts University graduate is headed to the airport to embark on a two month internship in Ghana. But her mind is focused elsewhere. This week, early voting began in her home state of Colorado. She flies in just a couple hours, and yet her absentee ballot is blank and unsent. Four years ago, Leuders would have voted immediately. This is the same young woman who keeps an un

Photo: Darren Hauck Wisconsin voters are extremely loyal to their sports teams: the Packers, the Badgers, and the Brewers maintain a sense of reverence entirely unique to the Cheese State. Unfortunately for both Romney and Obama, voters in the state have much less allegiance to their political parties. Instead, voters in Wisconsin maintain an historical commitment to an independent streak that differs from other states in the union. Lincoln's Republican Party held a virtual monopoly in the dec

On Monday, early voting began in Texas along with seven other states, including Washington, DC. No one is expecting any surprise upsets in statewide races in the Lone Star State, but voters in two important battleground states, Colorado and Wisconsin, can also head to the polls for the first time in the 2012 general elections. Texas is far from a battleground state. It is decidedly Republican and will be for many elections to come. It may be close to a decade before the state even has a chance

The following is a breakdown of the general types of primary elections with an explanation of the Constitutional principles that apply to each system's components.