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Budget Sequestration Effects on Swing States
Credit: Real Clear PoliticsSwing states can effect an election and therefore effect legislation, but how can the upcoming legislation effect swing states votes?Any of the past few years annual budget ...
29 Jul, 2012
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Post 9/11 National Security Has Hardly Made Us More Safe
Photo: blog.tsa.govOver at the New York Times, reporter Scott Shane announces the beginning of a running dialogue about how to strike “the proper balance between liberty and security” more than a dec ...
27 Jul, 2012
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Air Force Errors Escalate Vermont Fight over F-35 Base
Credit: Bill OetjenThe Pentagon has admitted it was wrong about basic facts relating to basing the F-35 stealth fighter-bomber in Vermont, so of course the announcement was made late last week in a s ...
20 Jul, 2012
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Election Update: Twitter Bomb, Negativity, and Super PAC Spending
unPAC the 2012 Olympics fights to restore American unity by asking NBC not to run special interest political ads, including those from super PACs, during the 2012 Olympic Broadcast. http://www.unpac. ...
18 Jul, 2012
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Key to Swing State Voters: Stagnant vs Growing Economy
Credit: Purple Strategies Purple Poll July 2012In a new Purple Poll released today, voters in 12 swing states diverge dramatically on their views of the country's economic trajectory. This overwhelmi ...
16 Jul, 2012
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Electoral College
As the primary season for the 2012 election has ended, all sides are now focused on the general election and the march to Election Day in November. On that day, millions of Americans will go to ...
14 Jul, 2012
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5 Memorable Moments from Governors Past & Present [VIDEO]
This weekend, the National Governors Association (NGA) will be meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia. The NGA is an annual meeting of current governors from all fifty U.S. states and five U.S. Terri ...
13 Jul, 2012
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Diminishing Republican Support for Tax Reform Pledge
Republican Rep. Scott Rigell of Virginia has revoked his signature from Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform pledge, and he isn’t the only one. Until recently the pledge had been signed by every ...
08 Jul, 2012
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Republicans Vow to Repeal Health Care Reform
On June 28th the Supreme Court ruled the Affordable Care Act constitutional and will be upheld as a law. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the bill, and the total was 5 for and 4 against. Immediatel ...
07 Jul, 2012
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The Importance of Independence Day
Independence Day commemorates the Fourth of July, 1776, the date borne on the Declaration of Independence, by which representatives of "the thirteen united States of America" formally announced their ...
04 Jul, 2012
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