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Category: 2018 Election

Begging

End of the calendar quarter – ugliest time in politics

June 26, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Democracy, Money & Politics, Politics Leave a comment

If you think that the ugliness of money in politics is an everyday occurrence, you might want to be downstream from the candidates in

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young people

We’re young, we’re politically active, and we’re coming to your town

June 26, 2018 Maggie Hannick 2018 Election, Activism, Politics, Youth issues Leave a comment

Recently, our nation has seen an uprising of activism by young people like me. There has been a lot of talk about this generation

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Pendulum

Hard to tell where the pendulum of normalcy will swing next

June 25, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Community/Common good, Democracy, Trump, Uncategorized Leave a comment

After Barack Obama was elected, it seemed that America had a new normalcy, one that some described as “post-racial.” For any who took that

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candidate

Who’s who & who said what at candidate forum in MO 2nd Congressional district

June 3, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Campaigns, Candidates, Democrats, Good government, Missouri region, Widgets: Candidates 2018 2 comments

Five Democrats—all male—are vying for the honor of trying to defeat entrenched Republican Ann Wagner, in Missouri’s 2nd Congressional District. Here are my impressions

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STL_Media

St. Louis lags badly in media coverage of Congressional Races

June 3, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, Campaigns, Media, Missouri region, Politics, Uncategorized, Voting/Elections One comment

As the St. Louis Metro Chapter of the League of Women Voters once again did its heavy lifting to bring political awareness to the

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push poll

A very pushy push poll on Right to Work [for less]

May 31, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Missouri region, Public Opinion polling, Widgets: Polls Leave a comment

Once again, I have allowed myself to be interviewed for a political poll—on Right to Work: a very pushy push poll, to say the

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McCaskill

McCaskill vs. Hawley: What the pollster asked

April 17, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Missouri region, Public Opinion polling, Senate, Widgets: Polls Leave a comment

Missouri’s incumbent U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill faces a challenge in November from Republican Josh Hawley, and things are heating up, as I learned today

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“Xenophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist.” Who, me?

March 30, 2018 Bill Kesler 2018 Election, Civil Rights, Education, Justice, Religion in Politics Leave a comment

When you’re running for a school board position in suburban St. Louis and tweet out memes about banning Islam in America, what could possibly

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Emma Gonzalez

Time for students to patronize adults; not the other way around

February 27, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Activism, Civil liberties, Democracy, Education, Guns, Human Rights, Justice Leave a comment

So many adults think that it is so cute, even enlightening, when a student such as Emma Gonzalez at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

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Pritzker

What’s wrong with this picture?

January 31, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, Corruption, Democrats, Government, Politics Leave a comment

Well, yes, it’s not the clearest photo of all time, but that’s because it’s taken from a television screen. But if you wanted a

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