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Presidential voting started last night in Dixville Notch, NH. The video below shows the first voting tie ever for this small community (five votes for Obama and five for Romney). I wonder if this is a harbinger of a long, long night to come. This video was originally posted by…

Democratic US Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren at Ramalho’s West End Gym Lowell Ma., home of “The Fighter”. This video was originally posted by JBoutselis1

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I agree with this four-year-old child in Colorado, driven to tears by the election. Politico made public that National Public Radio apologized to this adorable child whose pain I share. I find I’m repeating to myself the NPR…

These three videos were first posted by Len Lochrie. Taken from the same vantage point in Lowell, they show the increase in intensity of Hurricane Sandy.

Halloween has always interested me – not just for the trick-or-treating or the costumes or parties, but for its beginnings as “All Hallows Eve.” While Halloween might be celebrated all around the world, it is steeped in Irish tradition, culture and in its both pagan and Christian heritage. Long before Christianity arrived in Ireland, Halloween…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has announced it will no longer endorse political candidates, except in some rare undefined instances. What a travesty! Let’s face it. A newspaper or television station’s endorsement of a candidate probably has little impact…

So according to John Sununu…Colin Powell supports Barack Obama for “race” reasons? I wonder, does he support Mitt Romney for the same reason?

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Mitt Romney who showed up at last night’s foreign policy debate agreed with President Obama on the majority of issues discussed and points raised. And, because the President has been dealing with them on the ground for…

The best line of last night’s presidential debate came from President Obama who explained to Republican Candidate Mitt Romney that the nature of America’s military has changed. Check it out below.

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. South Dakota Senator George McGovern’s 1972 run for the White House was the last Presidential campaign I ever worked on. My journalistic career appropriately barred political involvement. But, as a good and decent man who stood up for…