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    Empire State Building debuts new lights

    Empire State Building New LED Light Show - Alicia Keys - Hoboken / NYC - YouTube
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    Projection of the results of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election

    I am now ready to project that Hillary Clinton (D) has an 80% chance of defeating Marco Rubio (R) in the election.
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    U.S. conservatives change their minds on immigration

    ...after President Obama won Latinos by so much. That would be a good bipartisan compromise. Making illegal immigrants legal. When Democrats tried to get the DREAM Act and a path to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants through Congress in 2010, Republicans blocked the immigration...
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    10 political pundits no one should listen to again

    1.Dick Morris. You know that worn-out joke about how someone's face is next to, say, "ugly" in the dictionary? In the digital age, it's no joke. Google "worst political pundit" and the name Dick Morris comes up early and often, with links to example after example. This time Morris outdid...
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    Puerto Rico votes to become the 51st US state

    Puerto Rico votes to become a U.S. state The first time they've approved it. The United States of America could have 51 states in the coming years. Puerto Rican status referendum, 2012 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    2012 Electoral College projections, as of this morning

    From various websites (you need 270 to win): FiveThirtyEight: 299 Obama, 239 Romney Electoral-vote.com: 280 Obama, 206 Romney, 52 Ties Votamatic, run by Emory Univ. political scientist Drew Linzer: 332 Obama, 206 Romney Huffington Post Pollster: 253 Obama, 206 Romney, 79 Tossups...
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    Watching U.S. right-wing media to see election reaction

    Yeah, let's be honest. I'm fairly certain President Obama is going to win the election in about a week and a half, and I want to experience Fox News, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Drudge Report, etc., when they have a reaction to an Obama win. Seriously, if you ever need an excuse to enter...
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    Early vote tallies for U.S. election from some important states

    Yes, actual voting. Not opinion polls, but actual votes. From four important states that register voters by party and publish those results. FLORIDA REP 335,056 44.8% DEM 295,332 39.5% IND 117,474 15.7% IOWA DEM 155,089 48.0% REP 99,680 30.9% OTH 67,895 21.0% NEVADA...
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    Predicting the 2012 Presidential election

    That is, the Electoral College vote. As you may know, there are 538 Electoral College votes and the first candidate to reach 270 wins. Each state is worth a certain number of EC votes, and a candidate wins those EC votes by winning the popular vote in each state. I'll predict... Hawaii 4 ECs...
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    MSNBC starting to beat Fox News in ratings

    For people who like crassly partisan conservative vs. liberal news stories (which I do sometimes): Right-leaning Fox News has dominated cable news ratings for something like a decade, but the left-leaning MSNBC is catching up with them. Monday and Tuesday of this week saw the first...
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    Top 10 Obama promises kept

    According to the fact-checking website PolitiFact.com 1. End the use of torture Obama said he would stop the torture of terror suspects, and human rights experts say he did. ... 2. Seek verifiable reductions in nuclear stockpiles In 2010, the Senate ratified a new START treaty for the United...
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    Mitt Romney, head of audit committee at Marriot when it used Son of Boss tax scheme

    The substance of this claim goes to Romney’s years on the board of Marriott International. According to Bloomberg News, he joined the board of directors in 1993 and became head of the board’s Audit Committee, a position he held for six years. By this point, Romney had already established himself...
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    Legislative career of Rep. Paul Ryan vs. legislative career of Sen. Barack Obama

    I've been searching the Library of Congress' THOMAS server all day, doing my homework on the career of Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican Vice Presidential candidate. Ryan has been a member of the House of Representatives for 13 and a half years. He first became a Representative in Jan. 1999. Obama...
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    Mitt Romney to name Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as running mate

    Source: NBC: 3 sources indicate Romney will pick Ryan - First Read People may remember Paul Ryan because his name has been given to the "Ryan Budget", the Republican budget crafted by Ryan that will turn the U.S.'s Medicare program into a voucher system. Obama vs. Romney-Ryan Al-Qaeda's...
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    70.8% chance of an Obama win in November

    Barack Obama’s standing in the FiveThirtyEight forecast reached its strongest position to date on Tuesday as a result of favorable polls in a set of swing states. The forecast model now gives Mr. Obama a 70.8 percent chance of winning the Electoral College, up from 69.0 percent on Monday and...
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    Bane Capital

    "We are Gotham's reckoning, and also a leading private equity firm delivering industry-leading returns for our investors." https://twitter.com/BaneCapital "Our plan to destroy Gotham created 1200 full-time jobs, including 1014 in China."
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    Know what the U.S. needs? Another George Bush.

    "P" to his friends, George P. Bush: A Political Dynasty's Young Hope - Molly Ball - The Atlantic It's a full proof plan for Republicans to have a comeback to the White House. What could go wrong?
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    Obamacare is a tax cut

    Note: In saying this, I'm using the same logic that critics have used in order to declare the health care law a tax increase. Or as Rush Limbaugh put it, "Obamacare is nothing more than the largest tax increase in the history of the world."...
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    June 30 is an important date for 2012 U.S. election

    It's the last day of June, and June 1980 was the time many people came to the conclusion that Republican challenger Ronald Reagan was going to defeat incumbent President Jimmy Carter. This is important for conservatives/Republicans who have this belief that President Obama is the...
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    20 Countries Besides Canada Stupid People Are Threatening to Move To B/C of Obamacare

    20 Countries People Are Moving To Because Of #Obamacare