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In the past, and sometimes nowadays, I have pretty much tired of political parties.  We’re in the 21st century.  The tool necessary to get the word out in the 18th century just isn’t necessary anymore.  Never has party unity and loyalty been any more muddled than this year.

Last night, longtime Democrat, and one-tome Democrat VP [...]

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Last night Iowa held their caucus.  This is the quickie breakdown of how the candidates did:
For the Republicans:

52 got 34%
61 got 25%
65 got 13%
71 got 13%
72 got 10%

The others either didn’t really run or were pretty much already out of it.
For the Democrats:

46 got 38%
55 got 30%
60 got 29%

The rest either got basically nothing or [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, age, caucus, clinton, edwards, huckabee, iowa, mccain, obama, richardson, romney, ron-paul, thompson

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I read this first thing this morning:
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?”
I have real issues with this for several reasons.
First of all, what does this have to do with being President of the United States of [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, cynthia-mckinney, democrats, giuliani, green-party, huckabee, mormon, religion, republicans, romney, ron-paul, thompson

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Opinion Polls & Market Research

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Congress passed another non-binding resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran.  Specifically targeting those protesting labor rights in Iran.  This bill passed 418-1.  Wanna guess who voted alone against this bill?  One clue, he’s done it before.  Yup, that’s right.  Ron Paul. One other person felt so unmoved by the plight of those poor souls [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, dennis-kucinich, human-rights, International Issues, International Politics, Iran, ron-paul

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In the form of a resolution, Congress took a hard slap at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Basically, it goes like this.  The United Nations formed a council to look into human rights violations and do what it can to assure human rights are respected all over the globe.  With the continuing genocide in Africa, [...]

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