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In 2004 President Bush received 284 electoral votes, fourteen more than needed to secure the Presidency. Bush won Ohio by less than 119 thousand votes, so a swing of less than 80 thousand votes would have meant a Kerry presidency. Meanwhile, in the last three years, Ohio’s economy has floundered, protectionist ideals are on the [...]

The “right to privacy” is not mentioned in the Constitution of the United States. In fact, the first time the term gained prominence was when Samuel Warren and future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote a treatise entitled the “Right to Privacy” in the Harvard Law Review in 1890, detailing when private communications can [...]

With the 2006 Congressional elections just four weeks away, the battle for control of Congress is heating up. With the Foley scandal adding to the unpopularity of the Republican Congress, the prospect of holding Republican losses to a minimum is looking bleaker each day. Most political pundits contend that Democrats have a good chance of [...]

For the first time since 1994, Democrats appear poised to take control of at least one House of Congress in the upcoming fall election. While many regard this as a cause for elation, my experience as a summer staff intern in the largely Democratic New Jersey Assembly fills me with trepidation about this prospect. [...]