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Category: 2012 Election

“One Term More”

August 22, 2012 Madonna Gauding 2012 Election, Humor One comment

The Broadway community offers up a parody of Les Miserables in support of Barack Obama’s reelection. Feel free to sing along with David Burnham (“Wicked”),

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Draining the Medicare pool

August 22, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Business, Health care, Politics 2 comments

Insurance is all about risk. Medicare is an insurance program, and it works because it pools together everyone in the Medicare-eligible age group—whether they’re

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Where’s the real Romney?

August 21, 2012 Frank Kovarik 2012 Election, Campaigns, Politics Leave a comment

Remember in 2008 when the process of running for President seemed to drain John McCain of most of the qualities that had once made

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Pollster asks: “If Todd Akin dropped out…”

August 20, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Campaigns, Missouri region, Politics, Women One comment

As annoying as robo-pollsters can be, it’s often worth picking up the phone, answering the questions, and sticking with it until the end, because

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