During the 90’s, the Presidential campaigns began courting a new voting bloc: The Soccer Mom. Democratic nominee Bill Clinton was sure that if he could get the moms in minivans to turn out and vote, he would win – and he was right.

There seems to be a new demographic ready to cast the swing vote, [...]

One of the major points of conflict between our two current presidential candidates is whether or not to drill for oil within the borders of the United States. McCain has gone on the record as being for local drilling and has recently said that Obama’s opposition to local drilling is the reason gas prices are [...]

There was an article on the front page of the Sunday New York Times that discusses John McCain modeling his political views after the progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt (TR).
I have long being a fan of TR. I have read almost every biography of him and was even a member of the TR Association for [...]

Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is confused about his stance on the issue of abortion in America.

Obama initially was endorsed by NARAL and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, a special interest PAC. In exchange, he promised to make the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) a focal point of his presidency.

NARAL gave Obama [...]

In the election of 2000 thousands of votes disappeared in Florida.  Unfortunately we now know this isn’t the first time there have been dificulties with balloting machines or even the balloting process. Over the years there have been several cases, including the Kennedy and Reagan eras where voting machines failed to operate properly or there [...]

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There is an article posted at the Wall Street Journal that says one in five Clinton supporters now say they are going to vote for McCain in November. This reminds me of when the conservative Republicans said they would vote for Clinton because McCain wasn’t conservative enough for them.
This is one of the major [...]

In The Election between Al Gore and George Bush Jr., conspiracy theories ran rampant.
Thousands of votes disappeared in Florida, which proved to be the decisive state. It was an even more apparent irony that the future president’s brother was the governor of the state in question.
Years later it doesn’t matter as much who the winner [...]