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Category: 2016 Election

Hillary, I’m trying to help. Give me something to work with.

August 22, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Hillary Clinton, Voting/Elections 5 comments

For a while, it seemed to be a shoo-in for Hillary as the Donald kept putting one foot after the other in his mouth,

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Is the Clinton campaign serious about Missouri?

August 18, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Activism, Campaigns, Missouri region 2 comments

I stopped by the brand new Hillary Clinton campaign HQ in St. Louis yesterday. It’s a small-ish storefront on a busy street in the

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It’s not fair to call Trump “crazy,” but …

August 15, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Democracy, Politics, Republican Brain One comment

The candidacy of Donald Trump poses a real question about the mental health of a political figure and who can try to analyze it.

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Can Independent Evan McMullin get on the ballot to stop Trump? A state-by-state chart

August 8, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, States, Voting/Elections 7 comments

There’s a new independent candidate for President in 2016, but can he get on the ballot in time to make a difference?. Evan McMullin

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What about the freedoms not related to guns?

August 2, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Democracy, Guns, Human Rights, Legal issues/Law One comment

If you watch enough news, if you listen to enough talk-radio, if you even read mainstream press, you might think that the only part

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Muslim women say: “Trump, can you hear us now?

August 2, 2016 Hafsa 2016 Election One comment

When Khizr and Ghazala Khan took the DNC by storm, calling out Donald Trump’s imbecilic Islamophobic comments, the Donald struck back… with more imbecility.

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Missouri primary ads: All guns, Islamophobia, no issues

August 2, 2016 Steve Sorkin 2016 Election, Missouri region Leave a comment

The Republican primary commercials in Missouri are incredible.     Apparently one candidate supports bringing Islamic terrorists to Missouri, because he supported a plan

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Hillary is flawed, but so what

July 29, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

To say that Hillary Clinton is flawed is to say that she is human. So are the rest of us. I would have preferred

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Memes: A new form of old-school propaganda

July 27, 2016 Adam Levin 2016 Election, Language/Words, Media, Politics One comment

We have to talk about memes. I’m not joking, I swear. It’s kind of disturbing how much of political discourse on social media is

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There’s no crying in baseball, or politics

July 26, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Activism, Bernie Sanders, Campaigns, Democracy, Democrats, Politics, Progressive people, Religion in Politics One comment

As I watched some of the Bernie Sanders supporters at the Monday night session of the Democratic National Convention, I couldn’t help but think

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