politics

Hey, did you hear the good news? We managed to avoid soaring headlong off the fiscal cliff yesterday. Granted, the House pulled the plug on a bill providing emergency aid to people whose lives were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy to do it. But they did it. Hooray!(?)

Election day is tomorrow, but I know a lot of my friends have already voted.  Have you told your co-workers who you voted for or who you're going to vote for?

While politics is not really my thing for several reasons I keep to myself, this year's election and results thereof, will surely be a part of high school and college history lessons in the year 2032  --  that is, if the world as we know  --  still exists.

In a recent Yahoo News and Esquire poll of 1,002 adults, Barack Obama was pitted against Ronald Reagan and Mitt Romney got a hypothetical matchup with Bill Clinton. In both cases, the ex-president defeated the current presidential candidate by a healthy margin. Which begs the question of who would win a fantasy presidential matchup of Clinton vs. Reagan? Yahoo and Esquire surveyed that, too.  Read

Not since the days of Ross Perot has a third party candidate received enough support to be included in the presidential debates. But does America suffer from its lack of a third major political party?

Rick Santorum stunned Mitt Romney and the rest of the nation on Tuesday night with a three state sweep. Santorum was declared the winner of the Colorado caucus with 40.2%, the Minnesota caucus with 44.8%, and the Missouri primary with 55.2% of the votes. Though Romney is still ahead in the delegate count, the Republican candidate's victories showed that the GOP presidential contest is no longer a

Newt Gingrich has surged to the front of the field among Republican presidential hopefuls, despite questions about his past failed marriages. In fact, Gingrich seemed to score points with GOP voters when he lambasted CNN’s John King during a South Carolina debate for bringing up one of Gingrich’s ex-wives’ allegations of infidelity.

When it comes to politics, our stances may not just be a matter of opinion. They could be based in biology, too.