One of Arizona's most famous son's is Barry Goldwater, a five term Senator known as "Mr. Conservative".
Republican Senator Goldwater launched a bid for President of the United States against Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, and Goldwater was portrayed as...
It is a given that the party out of power picks up seats in the off year election.
Why is that? The logic would seem simple. American voters have the patience and vision of a nearsighted 3 year old. Every...
With all the hype and furor being generated about making marijuana legal, there are a few points that have not heard from anyone other than me. And I’m still waiting for a coherent, fact based argument against passage of...
Remember the movie "Memento", about the guy who couldn't remember recent things because his short term memory was damaged? Er...what was I saying?
That brilliant film now seems to be an unintentional but fitting allegory for American voters and our...
The spin of yesterday's election that is all over the MSM today is, "It's the year of the woman".
Some would beg to differ. On the surface it is true, several winners of primaries yesterday were women. But the case...
It's Election Day today, you can smell the aroma of desperation and tea bags in the air.
It will be interesting, this will be the first big reflection of the influence the Republican Extremists, aka, Tea Partiers, have. With the...
In 2008, a majority of voters seemed to have recognized that the GOP's policy of allegiance to the wealthy and destruction of our constitution, principles and economy was really not something that they wanted to continue.
The voters wanted change...
As, some of you know, my passion for politics extends 'across the pond' as they say. I didn't think of writing anything until results started streaming in, and that for a subject I feel deserves more notice from us...
The Grateful Dead must be rolling in their joints. As described in the NYT:
On Wednesday, the California secretary of state certified a November vote on a ballot measure that would legalize, tax and regulate marijuana, a plan...
Come November, the Republican Party may need to change their mascot from the elephant to the lemming.
In the aftermath of Scott Brown's upset election in January, the GOP redoubled their bets on the failure of Health Care Reform. As...
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