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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

Screenshot: Comedy Central What are we to do when the essential conversations that surround any serious political issue have been rendered a joke by the inadequacy of mainstream media coverage? Enter the comedians. Though comedians are usually found musing over the absurdities characteristic of major news networks at the edge of the political stage, comedians like Stephen Colbert have rushed the mainstream center stage. Monday night a Colbert Report War on Drugs segment poked fun at the absu

Credit: User generated electoral maps on 270towin.com It’s the morning of Wednesday, November 7, 2012, and every major news outlet is reporting that for the first time in nearly two centuries, there is a tie in the electoral vote. Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have secured 269 votes. Fire begins to rain down from the sky, the ground begins to quake, and Republicans and Democrats lose their minds. Okay, so maybe the imagery of apocalyptic events is bit extreme, but the reaction people will

Ocean Beach is typically a quiet residential area, but in response to the rising crime rate, concerned citizens have organized.                Photo credit: "Colorado Guy" One would imagine that life on the beach is all sunshine, smiles, and other stereotypical California utopian sentiment.  During the month of September, however, several cases of sexual assault and peeping Toms plagued the northwest area of Ocean Beach. Not to take things lightly, several "OBceans" are up in arms regarding the

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

Below is the official transcript from the Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate, hosted by IVN on Google Plus Hangouts, October 18, 2012. ----- Steve Peace – Welcome to the IVN Presidential debate. My name is Steve Peace I’m co-chair of the independent voter project. We’re joined by Governor Gary Johnson who is in Laramie Wyoming, he’s the Libertarian Party candidate for President of the United States, and by Dr. Jill Stein, she’s joining us from Seattle Washington, she’s the Green Party candidat

Below is the official transcript from the Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate, hosted by IVN on Google Plus Hangouts, October 18, 2012. ----- Steve Peace – Welcome to the IVN Presidential debate. My name is Steve Peace I’m co-chair of the independent voter project. We’re joined by Governor Gary Johnson who is in Laramie Wyoming, he’s the Libertarian Party candidate for President of the United States, and by Dr. Jill Stein, she’s joining us from Seattle Washington, she’s the Green Party candidat

Politico recently reported that Governor Gary Johnson could actually be drawing a statistically significant amount of support from the major parties. Johnson, who is running on the Libertarian ticket, has previously run for public office on a Republican ticket, but most recently served as New Mexico's Independent governor. He spent 10 years as governor in that state, during which he enjoyed exceptionally high approval ratings. Now, recent polls are showing that his run for president as a Liberta

Fluxx nightclub in downtown San Diego San Diego isn’t populated by a slew of celebrities. But when the glitterati come to town – Usher, Cee Lo Green, Pam Anderson, Bruno Mars, Ludacris, LeBron James – the venue they’re most likely to visit is Fluxx. Fluxx has been San Diego's “it” hot spot two years running. Run by the RMC Group and designed by Davis Krumins, Fluxx (500 Fourth Avenue) purposefully has a Las Vegas feel. The phantasmagoric interior changes regularly. The décor has featured faux