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Next week Tuesday, registered voters in 22 States will go to the polls to fill out their ballots by making their choices in the Presidential sweepstakes for the two major parties. This day has been dubbed “Super Tuesday” for a long time due to the multitude of primary elections being held across the country. And [...]

Common Sense Authors assume that most individuals over the age of twenty know that the two major political parties pick their respective Presidential candidates at the party convention every four years. This process takes place by the voting of party delegates at these conventions. Now, in most instances, there are

The highly anticipated second Presidential Election milestone in 2008 has come and gone. The players have left New Hampshire and have moved on to other territories within the United States. We know who the winners were at this primary, Hillary Clinton on the Democrat and John McCain on the Republican side. The biggest losers at [...]

Finally, the circus show called “Iowa caucus 2008” is a thing of the past, and what a show it was. There has never been such hype about a single small state’s presidential primary vote. About 335,000 people left their homes and voted in Iowa, supposedly a record high for this state where more than two [...]

 
There is rarely a day when we are not being told by the media about the latest poll results about any kind of issue, be it nationwide, statewide or local. And like the vast majority of people, we read them and waste no time

 
     The 2006 congressional elections are history….and, they made history! The Democrat Party gained control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1994 and they also got control of the U.S. Senate by winning the necessary seats. While the final votes are still being counted, i.e., the absentee and provisional ballots, the [...]

 
     The day after the election, President Bush acknowledged that he and his party had taken a “thumpin”. The euphoric pronouncements by the pundits on TV and headlines and articles by the writers for most of the major media outlets hailed the results as ‘historic’, ‘the blue wave’, ‘of landslide proportion’ that gave them similar [...]