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The Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) has yet to report the vote totals of yesterday's Iowa Caucuses. These largely unprecedented and unexplained delays are the product of "inconsistencies," according to the IDP. According to an NBC News article posted Monday evening, the IDP communications director, Mandy McClure, explained that there were "inconsistencies" in the reporting of three sets of results: "In...
The race carries on. As candidates continue to drop like Kamala Harris, Julián Castro, and Cory Booker, the stage has begun to narrow down in the Democratic Primary Debate. This was especially noticeable as only six candidates took the stage in a single-night, two-hour debate on the evening of January 14, 2020. Hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register, the...
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." As outlined in the preamble of the Constitution,...
December 18, 2019 never appeared to be a very critical or memorable day. Now, however, it will go down in infamy as the day the forty-fifth President of the United States, Donald J Trump, was impeached by the House of Representatives. The House passed two articles of impeachment against the President on the evening of December 18: one for obstruction...
With all the drama continuing to erupt around the upcoming Presidential election this coming November, it is important to remember that many Senators and all the members of the House of Representatives are also up for re-election. While the presidency catches the attention of most Americans as the most important office, the majority in both chambers of Congress can...
With political ads and memes everywhere, most Americans have some bearing on the 2020 presidential election. Fewer Americans, however, follow the important Congressional elections that will also take place in November, including those for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 seats in the Senate. Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn is among those up for election. Senator...
The Removal of a Constitutional Right On August 5, 2019, Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, scrapped Article 370. Since then, chaos has only increased in Kashmir. The Chaotic Aftermath The Constitutional Article had granted autonomy to the region of Kashmir. This meant that they were allowed their own constitution, a separate flag, and the right to make their own laws....
Credit: US News On January 21, 2019 the junior senator from California, Kamala Harris, announced she would throw her hat in the ring for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 election. Almost a year later, she ended her campaign on Tuesday, December 3, in an article by CNBC remarking “I’ve taken stock and looked at this from every angle, and...

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