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On July 4, 1776, Americans advanced a revolutionary claim: political power ultimately belonged not to a king, but to the ...

In the late 1980s, when my firm, Price Research, prepared a voter survey for the Bakersfield City School District, we began ...

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Lynn Schmidt is a syndicated columnist and Editorial Board member with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Lynn earned her Masters in Political Science from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and holds a BS in ...

In 2008, Barack Obama, then a young Senator from Illinois, ran for president proclaiming he was “fired up and ready to go” ...