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Measure to Legalize Marijuana Trails in California, if Polls Are Right
Los Angeles - If this is Friday, California's ballot measure to legalize marijuana use for adults must be ... losing? That, indeed, is the result of the latest poll …
Beware of Polls That Exclude Cell Phone-Only Voters
Washington - Watching the polls to figure out who's up and who's down this election season? Be careful. The poll may have a pro-Republican bias. The ranks of Americans …
Nine Reasons Why Democrats Will Keep Control of the House
With two weeks to go in the 2010 mid-term elections there are a number of good reasons to believe — contrary to most conventional wisdom — that Democrats will …
Partisanship Is Dead. Long Live Partisanship
In his farewell address to the nation, George Washington's mediation on partisanship was: "... the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of the party are sufficient to make …
Boo! Halloween for Democrats Comes Early With Spooky Poll Numbers
With Halloween approaching, it’s not goblins and witches and ghosts that Democrats have to fear. It’s mere numbers - poll numbers. And for majority Democrats in Congress and President …
The Way We Forget
This country of ours has a monstrous capacity to forget. We are able to forget - if we ever knew - what happened two hundred years ago, one hundred …
A Rape in Colorado
We have endured, to date, one of the most shallow and contemptible campaign seasons in modern political history. The main storylines of the 2010 midterm season have centered around …
Jim Hightower | Bleeding in Afghanistan
Are you aware that America has now been at war for nearly a decade? We've been fighting, bleeding and dying in two hellacious, multitrillion-dollar conflagrations since 2001 — and …
Brazilian Election: A First-Round Setback for Lula’s Protégé
Round One: Favorite Falls Just Short of the Line
New Poll Shows California Tilting Against Legalized Marijuana
Los Angeles - As the nation’s first state vote on whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use nears, a new poll has introduced fresh uncertainty into the race.