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Presidential Election 2012 Update: January 19, 2012
A periodic review of the current presidential election campaigns:And then there were four. Just two days before the South Carolina primary, Rick Perry publicly announces his withdrawal from the race f ...
19 Jan, 2012
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Polls show Ron Paul emerging as key player in 2012 race
A new poll finds that a third-party bid by presidential hopeful Ron Paul would help re-elect president Obama, but not before taking away 9% of the President's independent support and 17% of independen ...
19 Jan, 2012
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Court denies Perry et al. ballot access in Virginia
In Virginia, the Republican presidential primary is officially a two person race. Only two candidates for the Republican presidential nomination will appear on Virginia's primary ballot in March: Mitt ...
18 Jan, 2012
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This could be California's driest year on record
The Sierras have had practically no snow this year. Lake Tahoe, which relies on skiing for income, has no ski areas operating at full capacity. Some only have 30% of their lifts open. Last year, they ...
17 Jan, 2012
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Internet activists take on SOPA: A lesson for Independents?
Controversial anti-piracy legislation in Congress has recently hit a snag, one that can largely be attributed to the internet community’s intense activism. California Congressman Darrell Issa, the Hou ...
17 Jan, 2012
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California's central role in the Republican presidential primary
It's a much different electoral landscape in 2012 for the Republican Party. It's a landscape in which California plays a central role in the presidential nominating process, not because its prim ...
10 Jan, 2012
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Addressing the depletion of natural resources
Texas is currently suffering its worst drought in recorded history with much of it in what the U.S. Drought Monitor classifies as D3, Extreme Drought, or D4, Exceptional Drought. Several municipalitie ...
05 Jan, 2012
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After Iowa
So the Iowa caucus has come and gone for the 2012 election. Does it really mean anything in the overall grand scheme of things? Not really. The Iowa voters don't necessarily pick the ...
04 Jan, 2012
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Gallup: Huntsman, Romney, and Paul closest to average American’s political ideology
A recent Gallup Poll finds that the average American is slightly right of center ideologically. The implication? If Americans chose their President on the basis of their ideological views and percepti ...
03 Jan, 2012
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Arizona legislators push bill to allow guns on college campuses
In a move sure to be controversial and which has already received national attention, Arizona legislators have redrafted legislation to allow guns to be carried at public colleges and universities. Go ...
03 Jan, 2012
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