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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Don't Know Much About History
by Tom McLaughlin
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 Yes, the Leftmedia 'Rigs' Elections 
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Arnold Ahlert: "We're running against a rigged system," Donald Trump said at a rally Tuesday, "and we're running against a very dishonest media."
          Trump, inelegant as he is, nonetheless has a point. And one of the primary reasons he continues to resonate with millions of Americans is exactly because of his willingness to take on both.
          Yet it is an integral part of the system itself that should worry Trump and his supporters the most. That's because other than some yet-to-be-revealed "events on the ground," this election could hinge on the three presidential debates scheduled to be held on Monday, Sept. 26 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York; Sunday, Oct. 9 at Washington University in St. Louis; and Wednesday, Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.
           And once again, the likelihood of a "rigged system" being stacked against the GOP candidate looms exceedingly large.
          Both the first and second debates will be held at the same time as two nationally televised NFL football games. The dates are set by the ostensibly non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Following complaints by the Trump camp, who insisted the scheduling was an attempt to hide liar-Hillary, much like the DNC's scheduling of the Sanders/liar-Clinton debates in low viewership weekend slots, the CPD issued a statement insisting the "dates for the 2016 debates will serve the American public well."
          Maybe they will and maybe they won't, given the reality that millions of Americans watch football, including a sizable portion of the blue-collar demographic that favors Trump. But a far more germane question should be explored: is the CPD actually non-partisan? Their Board of Directors consists of 14 members, and while it is impossible to fully determine an individual member's exact political persuasion, their biographies are indicative.
          Seemingly on the left are former ABC News anchor Charles Gibson; former PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer; former Democrat Party Rep. Jane Harman, who resigned from Congress to head the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; philanthropist Howard Buffett, eldest son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett; Dorothy Ridings, former president of the Council on Foundations & League of Women Voters; former FFC chairman Newton Minow, former Princeton University president Dr. Shirley M. Tilghman; and former president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) Antonia Hernandez.
          Seemingly on the right, John Griffen, managing director of Allen and Company, an investment bank involved in media and entertainment deals; Notre Dame president Rev. John I. Jenkins; former GOP Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels; former chairman of Citigroup and the former chairman and CEO of Time Warner Richard Parsons; former Republican Senator from Missouri and NHL owner John Danforth; and former GOP Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe.
          Assuming a reasonable degree of accuracy based on political and business affiliations, that's a noticeable lean to the left. More so in light of further consideration: Parsons was an adviser for quintessential RINO Nelson Rockefeller, Danforth complained that there's an audience for the "anger and hatefulness" Trump expresses, and Snowe insisted Trump is "damaging the (GOP) party brand."
          In defending themselves against the Trump campaign charges, the CPD explained the debate schedule was announced in Sept. 2015, and to be fair, the commissioners couldn't have known who would be the GOP standard-bearer at that time. Yet it would strain credulity to think they believed the Democrat race was up for grabs, given the published knowledge of that party's overwhelmingly pro/liar-Clinton super-delegate affiliation. An affiliation that rendered the Sanders campaign irrelevant right from the beginning.
          A planned irrelevancy, as Wiki-leaked DNC emails and subsequent resignations) of key DNC officials have revealed.
          Yet if truth be told, the ultimate indication of the CPD's neutrality ought to be their selection of moderators for the debates. (This year's moderators haven't been announced yet). Their track record in that regard?
          In 2012, this "non-partisan" body selected PBS's Jim Lehrer, CNN's Candy Crowley and CBS's Bob Schieffer to host the debates. All three are unabashed leftists. Moreover, Crowley proved it with her outrageous "thumb on the scale" performance, backing Barack nObama's false assertion that he called Benghazi an act of terror right away. This despite the reality that Crowley's own news network reported the White House characterized Benghazi as a terror attack "for the first time" on Sept. 20, nine days later.
          Crowley's effort arguably cost Mitt Romney the debate — and quite possibly the election itself.
          And if you think the selection of leftist debate moderators in 2012 was an anomaly, think again. In 2008, the CPD selected PBS's Jim Lehrer, NBC's Tom Brokaw and CBS's Bob Schieffer as moderators. In 2004, it was Lehrer, Schieffer and ABC's Charles Gibson. In 2000, Lehrer moderated all three presidential debates. In 1996, there were only two presidential debates — both moderated by, you guessed it, Jim Lehrer. In 1992, Lehrer moderated two of the three debates, and ABC's Carol Simpson moderated the other. In 1988, two debates moderated by Lehrer and CNN's Bernard Shaw. In 1984, two debates moderated by ABC's Barbara Walters and former NBC newsman Edwin Newman. In 1980, two debates moderated by PBS's Bill Moyers and ABC's Howard K. Smith.
          After a 32 year span of consistently leftist or left-leaning debate moderators, how is it possible to take seriously the assertion — made by the mainstream media, no less — that the CPD is non-partisan?
          It isn't, which is why is behooves the Republican National Committee to snap out of more than three decades worth of self-inflicted impotency and demand an end to this partisan nonsense. Now, before the CPD stacks the deck once more. Again, Trump resonates because he stands in stark contrast to a GOP mindset that acquiesces to this kind of steamrolling. Steamrolling that becomes even more galling when they frame it as an effort to rise above the very same "gutter" politics Democrats practice with impunity.
          It is virtually axiomatic the media will remain in liar-Hillary's corner over the remainder of the campaign. Yet if the RNC, and by extension the Republican Party itself, timidly abets another hijacking of the debate moderators, they may never recover. And if that's the way it goes down — for the tenth time in a row — maybe they shouldn't.  -The Patriot Post
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 'Never Mind liar-Hillary's Actual Breaches, 
 Let's Worry About Trump' 
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Barack nObama attempted damage control Thursday as he responded to criticism over his $400 million cash payment to Iran, which has been widely viewed as a ransom for four American hostages. nObama sought to deflect the idea that the payment had anything to do with a "nefarious deal" and criticized the reporting on the story as out of a "spy novel" rather than reality. "It is not at all clear to me why it is that cash as opposed to a check or a wire transfer has made this into a news story. Maybe because it feels like some spy novel or, you know, some crime novel."
          What does it say about nObama that his schemes are so ridiculous that his only defense is to call the stories about them ridiculous? If he wouldn't run his administration like a crime syndicate, the stories about his administration wouldn't sound like a crime novel.
          nObama then decided to weigh in on the fact that both presidential candidates will be receiving classified security briefings, and that both candidates "have been told these are classified briefings." He warned that Donald Trump would need to keep this sensitive information secret — to be "able to receive these briefings and not spread them around." Is he kidding? What of nObama's former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton? The press conveniently did not raise any objections or questions regarding liar-Hillary and her email scandal. You know, the one in which she sent and received thousands of classified emails — including those with TOP SECRET information — over an unsecured private server. nObama will never mention that again, and the Leftmedia will be happy to not ask.
          The idea that Barack "I did not pay a ransom" nObama would worry more about classified security breaches from Trump, who has no record of leaking classified information, rather than liar-Hillary, who by her own handiwork is the most compromised nominee in the history of the nation, is beyond ridiculous. Again, it's no wonder people read about his administration like it's a crime novel.  -The Patriot Post
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More Racially Incorrect Facts
Regarding Race and Slavery
by Jack Kerwick
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ To paraphrase the eminent black scholar Thomas Sowell, nothing unleashes the irrationality of the contemporary Western intellect like the topic of race... The merchants of Big Racism, or the Racism-Industrial-Complex (RIC), oscillate between two contradictory assertions. On the one hand, they assure us that there are no differences between blacks and whites in terms of criminality, that blacks are disproportionately arrested and incarcerated because of “racist” criminal justice system. Yet, on the other hand, they admit that while blacks do indeed engage in criminal activity to a far greater extent than do whites or, for that matter, any other racial group, this is a “legacy” of slavery and Jim Crow. To repeat, these two propositions are mutually contradictory. For the time being, though, let’s focus on the latter. Numerous thinkers, black, white, and other, have successfully, repeatedly, debunked the legacy of slavery argument.  Without regurgitating their arguments, though, I’d prefer instead to consider a conveniently neglected part of the history of slavery in the New World, that part of the past that involves white slaves. After all, if the enslavement and oppression of their ancestors explains the high rate of criminality among blacks today, then, presumably, it’s true as a general principle that slavery and oppression ultimately lead to criminality. But if this is true, then the enslavement and oppression of whites of yesteryear should’ve led to marked criminality among today’s whites...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263740/more-racially-incorrect-facts-regarding-race-and-jack-kerwick
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Questions on a Coup
by Joseph Puder
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ It is not clear yet whether the July 15, 2016 failed coup in Turkey was an authentic coup by frustrated military officers, and conceived by the Turkish U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, as claimed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... or an insidious plot by Erdogan to complete his dictatorial takeover of the Turkish state. In the process, he is set to destroy the last vestiges of the Ataturk legacy of Turkish secularism, guaranteed by the judiciary and the military. It would seem somewhat curious that Erdogan was able to escape from the so-called plotters who allegedly raided the hotel in the Aegean resort town of Marmaris, where the vacationing Erdogan had been staying during the coup. It is furthermore mysterious that the plane taking him back to Istanbul was miraculously able to avert the “plotters” jets and helicopters supposedly set to assassinate him while hovering nearby. What is abundantly clear is that Erdogan did not wait an extra minute to execute his plan to destroy all of his perceived opposition. He issued a new presidential decree last Sunday that introduced sweeping changes to Turkey’s military in an attempt to bring the armed forces further under civilian authority, or more precisely, under his authority. A decree, the third issued under a three-month state of emergency declared after the attempted coup, gives the president and prime minister the authority to issue direct orders to the commanders of the army, air force and navy... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263762/questions-coup-joseph-puder
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Parents of 2 Benghazi victims sue liar-Hillary Clinton
for wrongful death, defamation
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{foxnews.com} ~ The parents of two of the four Americans who died in the Benghazi attack in 2012 filed a lawsuit Monday against Democratic presidential nominee liar-Hillary Clinton... alleging her “extremely careless” handling of classified information contributed to their deaths. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch USA on behalf of Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, and Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, for allegedly wrongfully causing the death of their sons as well as for defamation and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The lawsuit suggests that liar-Clinton's use of a private email server contributed to the deaths of Smith and Woods, adding that terrorists were able to "obtain the whereabouts of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and thus the U.S. State Department and covert and other government operations in Benghazi, Libya and subsequently orchestrate, plan, and execute the now infamous September 11, 2012 attack."...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/08/parents-2-benghazi-victims-sue-hillary-clinton-for-wrongful-death-defamation.html
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nObama: Israel Loves My Iran Deal! Israel:
Your Iran Deal Is Worse Than Cancer.
by BEN SHAPIRO
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ On Friday, the day after Barack nObama openly lied about Israeli support for his Iran nuclear deal -- which grants the Iranians hundreds of billions of dollars with no limitations on terror funding or ballistic missile testing... and a clear path to a nuclear weapon after a decade - the Israeli Defense Ministry sounded off: The Munich Agreement didn't prevent the Second World War and the Holocaust precisely because its basis, according to which Nazi Germany could be a partner for some sort of agreement, was flawed, and because the leaders of the world then ignored the explicit statements of Hitler and the rest of Nazi German's leaders. These things are also true about Iran, which also clearly states openly that its aim is to destroy the state of Israel. The Defense Ministry continued by stating that the Iran deal "only damages the uncompromising struggle we must make against terrorist states like Iran."... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obama-israel-loves-my-iran-deal-israel-your-iran-deal-is-worse-than-cancer?f=must_reads
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nObama to Waive Unlawful Presence
for Certain Illegal Aliens
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{fairus.org} ~ The nObama administration has taken yet another executive action to unilaterally rewrite our immigration laws... This time, through a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) final rule, the nObama administration announced it is significantly expanding the provisional waiver of inadmissibility for certain individuals living in the country unlawfully. In doing so, President nObama is forgiving the unlawful presence of an individual who is otherwise eligible for a green card. Generally, aliens who have been residing in the country illegally long term cannot simply return to the country if they leave. Immigration and Nationality Act Section 212(a)(9)(B) says that aliens who have been illegally present in the U.S. between six months and a year may not be readmitted for three years; it also says aliens who have been illegally present in the U.S. for over a year may not return for ten years...Where's Congress on this?  http://www.fairus.org/legislative-updates/legislative-update-8-9-2016#1
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Germany's Migrant Rape Crisis
Spirals out of Control
by Soeren Kern
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Sexual violence in Germany has reached epidemic proportions since Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed into the country more than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East... Gatestone Institute first reported Germany's migrant rape crisis in September 2015, when Merkel opened up the German border to tens of thousands of migrants stranded in Hungary. A follow-up report was published in March 2016, in the aftermath of mass attacks against German women by mobs of migrants in Cologne, Hamburg and other German cities. Germany's migrant rape crisis has now spread to cities and towns in all 16 of Germany's federal states. Germany is effectively under siege; public spaces are becoming increasingly perilous. Police have warned about a potential breakdown of public order this summer, when young male migrants are likely to see women lightly dressed...'Lightly dressed', that doesn't matter.  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8663/germany-migrants-rape
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Conducts Massive Raid into
liar-Hillary Clinton Supporter’s Office!
by Kosar
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents have sized a massive truckload of financial records from a large Philadelphia-area labor union which supports liar-Hillary Clinton... As the video shows the entire raid was conducted in front of their large “liar-Hillary for President” campaign sign for the 2016 presidential election. It appears the suspects in question have close ties to liar-Hillary Clinton:...  http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/breaking-fbi-conducts-massive-raid-hillary-clinton-supporters-office/?utm_source=SailThru%26utm_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TPI%20Newsletter%2008-09-16%20Curated/Horizon%20Tier%201&utm_term=Tier%201
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Wikileaks Says They Will Release THIS Info
That Will DESTROY liar-Hillary’s Campaign!!
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{fromtheright.com} ~ In a remarkable revelation, Julian Assange of Wikileaks said that they will be soon dropping information that could utterly destroy liar-Hillary’s campaign. Here’s what they said:... So, those liar-Hillary Clinton emails, they connect together with the cables that we have published of liar-Hillary Clinton, creating a rich picture of how liar-Hillary Clinton performs in office, but, more broadly, how the U.S. Department of State operates. So, for example, the disastrous, absolutely disastrous intervention in Libya, the destruction of the Gaddafi government, which led to the occupation of ISIS of large segments of that country, weapons flows going over to Syria, being pushed by liar-Hillary Clinton, into jihadists within Syria, including ISIS, that’s there in those emails. There’s more than 1,700 emails in liar-Hillary Clinton’s collection, that we have released, just about Libya alone. This would be a huge admission since liar-Hillary is already on the hook for the Libyan War, but if there were proof that she also provided arms that ended up in the hands of ISIS, it would be over for her presidential campaign...  http://fromtheright.com/latest/wikileaks-says-they-will-release-this-info-that-will-destroy-hillarys-campaign/
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nObamaCare Premiums Spiking
in Illinois and Beyond
by Carrie Lukas
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{iwvoice.org} ~ If you live in Illinois, get ready to pay a lot more for health care coverage through nObamaCare next year. From the Chicago Tribune:... On Monday, Illinois citizens were jolted by a piercing pain in the wallet as federal officials unveiled proposed nObamacare insurance premium rates for 2017. Insurers plan to dial up rates as much as a heart-stopping 45 percent for those who buy plans on the nObamacare marketplace when open enrollment starts Nov. 1. That means thousands of people will scramble for affordable insurance ... and won't find it. At least Illinoisans can take solace in the fact that they're not alone. High rate hikes are also expected in New Jersey, Michigan, Wisconsin, California, and Wyoming. This comes against the backdrop of news that Aetna is now backing away from plans to participate in nObamaCare exchanges...  http://www.iwvoice.org/detail.php?c=2801052&t=ObamaCare-Premiums-Spiking-in-Illinois--and-Beyond
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Surprise Natural Gas Drawdown
Signals Higher Prices Ahead
{noisyroom.net} ~ The U.S. electric power sector burned through a record amount of natural gas in recent weeks, a sign of the shifting power generation mix and also a signal that natural gas supplies could get tighter than many analysts had previously expected... The EIA reported a surprise drawdown in natural gas inventories for the week ending on August 3. The reduction of 6 billion cubic feet (Bcf) was the first summertime drawdown since 2006. Natural gas spot prices shot up following the data release on August 4, although they fell back again shortly after. Natural gas consumption patterns are much more seasonal than for oil. Demand tends to spike in the winter due to heating needs, and then drops substantially in the intervening months, particularly in the spring and fall. Between March/April and October/November, natural gas inventories build up as people need less heating, and that stockpiled gas is then used in the next winter...  http://noisyroom.net/blog/2016/08/09/surprise-natural-gas-drawdown-signals-higher-prices-ahead/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29
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Don't Know Much About History
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Teaching US history to 14-year-olds could be frustrating. In Maine, as in most states, students took US History in 5th, 8th, and 11th grades. That latter was required for a high school diploma and I believe it still is, but none of it guarantees that those who graduate high school have even a cursory understanding of American history — or any other history for that matter. My frustration in 8th grade was the discrepancy in basic knowledge of history or geography with which students came to me. Most didn’t know a country from a continent. They could not point to Maine on a world map, nor did they have even a cursory understanding of what the United States even was.
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The scope of my curriculum included US History from Indians to the present, weaving in geography, economics, civics, the US Constitution, and current events. I was prepared to deliver it, but after the first year I realized that most students had no framework of space (geography) and time (history) into which this material could be assimilated. Without such a structure, my students would not retain much. Some 5th grade teachers taught US History, but most did little more than cut out turkeys and Pilgrim hats at Thanksgiving. I had to fill huge gaps before delivering my course because without a mental framework of time and place, what I had to teach would go in one ear and out the other.
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Because of an enrollment bulge one year, I had to give up two sections of history to other teachers and pick up a couple of writing classes instead. Though I gave one teacher the scope and sequence of my 20th century US history curriculum (the scope had narrowed by then), she taught nothing but slavery all year. That’s it. Students emerged from her classes knowing nothing else of US History but that black slavery was practiced here. I was appalled, but there was little I could do except bring it to the attention of administrators. I’ve since learned this was not usual. According to Assistant Professor Duke Pesta at the University of Wisconsin, it’s much more widespread than I ever realized. Pasta offers one telling anecdote:

I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test... just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students - I'm talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years — they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They're 100% convinced that slavery is a uniquely American invention... How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that's what they think of their own country - that America invented slavery? That's all they know.

Most Americans have no idea that Arab Muslims enslaved more than a million white, Christian Europeans between 1500 and 1700, and as many as 2.5 million more whites from the Black Sea region. Touring the Greek Gulf of Corinth in 2014, I asked our guide why all the villages were located up on steep hillsides instead of on the coastal plain, she said it was to escape Muslim slavers. Arab Muslims practiced black slavery long before and long after Europeans or Americans did and still enslave black Christians in Sudan.
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When my curriculum included US History from Indians to the present, I had students reenact pre-Civil War congressional slavery debates in class. Southern congressmen like John C. Calhoun were correct when arguing that slavery was approved in both the Old and New Testaments as well as in virtually every other culture throughout history. College students today, however, think slavery a uniquely American institution.
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Consider what their misconception — that Americans invented slavery — does to their understanding of their own country. Consider that leftist professor control academia — and make sure students hear a continuous drumbeat about what an evil country this is — founded by evil, capitalist, white, racist men. It’s no wonder so many flock to Bernie Sanders rallies and support dubious organizations like Black Lives Matter. No wonder they’re so willing to believe that racist cops shot Michael Brown in the back while he had his hands up — which never happened. And, it’s getting worse. According to a report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA):
The overwhelming majority of America’s most prestigious institutions do not require even the students who major in history to take a single course on United States history or government. Disregard for the importance of United States history in the undergraduate history major is matched by the overall disappearance of United States history requirements from general education…
In the Ivy League, it’s not much better. mindingthecampus.org reports:
When ACTA commissioned a Roper survey of seniors at the "Top 50" colleges and universities, those holding the most prestigious positions in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, it found that only 29% could identify—in a multiple-choice survey—the definition of "Reconstruction.”
Don’t count on an informed electorate going into November.
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