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November 5, 2012 By Alex Vassar

Election Day has arrived

  Election Day is here at last. Right around the time that most of you will be waking up and climbing out of bed, the polls will open. Armies of campaign volunteers, poll workers, and voters will converge. History will be decided. When casting your ballot today, assuming that you aren’t voting absentee, please give […]

Filed Under: 2012 Election, Current Research, Editorial, ElectionVolunteer, JoinCalifornia, Top Stories Tagged With: Choose carefully, Election Day, Go Vote

November 1, 2012 By Alex Vassar

Feinstein Reaches Twenty Years in the Senate

As of Sunday, Dianne Feinstein will have served two full decades as a U.S. Senator. She is the third longest-serving Senator in California history (after Hiram Johnson, Alan Cranston, and George C. Perkins), and at the end of her next term will rank just behind Johnson. Feinstein is also currently the third longest-serving female Senator […]

Filed Under: 2012 Election, Congress, Current Research, JoinCalifornia, Special Elections, Top Stories Tagged With: Dianne Feinstein, Emken, Pete Wilson, Special Election, twenty years, United States Senate

October 21, 2012 By Alex Vassar

George McGovern (1922-2012)

George McGovern, a two-time candidate for President, died today in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was 90. McGovern served in both houses of Congress, starting as a member of the House of Representatives (1957-1961) and finishing with a nearly two-decade term in the Senate (1963-1981). He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000.

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