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I am a retired advertising sales executive/manager and am now Executive Director of the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC). I am also a member of the Senior Editor Team at Op Ed News. I also serve as Research Director and Board member of Healthcare4ALLPA which is promoting the adoption of single-payer healthcare in Pennsylvania and nationally. I have a long-time interest in progressive politics and journalism and have published numerous articles and blogs over more than four decades. I was a progressive Democratic candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2010. I write primarily about politics, healthcare, journalism, and political assinations, and my work has been published In The New York Times; The Village Voice; The Realist; The Washington Star; New Times, Rolling Stone, three book anthologies, et al. OpEd News Member for 829 week(s) and 0 day(s) 34 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 251 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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Tuesday, February 25, 20202020 Democratic Primaries And Debate Calendar Here's a handy list of the dates for debates and state primaries for the 2020 Democratic Candidate and general election. 
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Thursday, February 20, 2020You Can Believe The Bernie Sanders Campaign Juggernaut - It's Genuine The only words that would seem appropriate to describe the current polling trends would be A Bernie Sanders Juggrnaut! Series: 2020 Poll Analyses (7 Articles, 16052 views) 
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Monday, February 3, 2020D-Day In Iowa Update - The 2020 Election process Begins Today The Iowa Caucus is today. The pollsters are increasingly inept at calling elections. This year OpedNews will hold them accountable. Series: 2020 Poll Analyses (7 Articles, 16052 views) 
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020California Poll Suggests "Electability" Is a Bogus Issue. Without it Sanders Wins By even Greater Margins A California poll suggests that Biden sinks and Sanders soars even more once voters rid themselves of the bogus belief that only Biden can defeat Trump Series: 2020 Poll Analyses (7 Articles, 16052 views) 
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020Bernie Sanders surges in January polls Bernie Sanders has been creeping up on Joe Biden in the polls ever since Biden announced his candidacy on April 22, 2019. Early on Biden had a 38-point lead on Sanders. Sanders has narrowed that lead every month and it now stands at 6 points in January. January is shaping up as Sanders best polling month to-date. Series: 2020 Poll Analyses (7 Articles, 16052 views) 
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Thursday, January 16, 2020New York Times Double Standard On Poll Reporting The New York Times has made no secret of its opposition to the candidacy of Bernie Sanders. This is but the latest example 
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020The Extraordinary (For Bernie Sanders) Latest Politico/Morning Consult Tracking Poll Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls and will almost certainly soon be the consensus front runner for the Democratic nomination. 
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Sunday, January 5, 2020Are pollsters awakening from a long slumber In New Hampshire and elsewhere? For reasons no one seems to understand, pollsters have cut back decisively on their national and state Democratic polls since early December despite the fact that the early state primaries are fast approaching. In New Hampshire. For example, there had been only one poll in December, and that one was in the field early on from December 3rd to December 8th. That compares with five New Hampshire polls in November. Series: 2020 Poll Analyses (7 Articles, 16052 views)
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Monday, December 9, 2019Mainstream Media Disregarding Poll Findings Showing Bernie Sanders' Progress A simple review of the recent polls shows that the mainstream media are ignoring polling trends that favor Bernie Sanders. Series: 2020 Poll Analyses (7 Articles, 16052 views) 
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Thursday, October 17, 2019The Real Reason Centrists Push For Health Insurance Choice: To Kill M4All people who propose allowing parallel systems are really trying to save a system where the gatekeepers are the insurance companies. Don't think they don't know it either. They are selling a system that cannot work in order to kill Medicare for All. 
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Sunday, January 20, 2019Kennedy and King Family Members and Advisors Call for Congress to Reopen Assassination Probes As a member of the JFK assassination critical community for the past 53 years, I feel honored to have been a part of the process that saw this project and this document through to fruition, and to be one of the signatories. As a member of the senior editorial team here at OpEdNews I am also thrilled to bring it to the attention of our readers. Please help spread the word 
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016Don't Listen to the Media or Polls: BERNIE SANDERS IS WINNING!!! The media is fond of writing off Bernie Sanders, but consider the fact that Bernie is racking up a number of impressive primary and caucus wins that seriously challenge the notion that Hillary Clinton is the candidate most capable of winning in November. Series: 2020 Poll Analyses (7 Articles, 16052 views) 
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Thursday, February 18, 2016Quinipiac: Sanders Trounces Clinton Nationally in Matchups Against ALL GOP Challengers A new national poll signals a spectacular turning point in the 2016 Democratic campaign. Bernie Sanders is surging past Hillary Clinton and is polling far better than she is against the GOP field. 
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Monday, October 5, 2015Is the media learning to respect Bernie Sanders? Ia the media finally ready to give take the Bernie Sanders campaign seriously. It is starting to appear that way. 
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014Chris Christie's Many Tales From the Dark Side Chris Christie has burst onto the national scene in recent years. Despite having many critics and detractors he has become something of a darling of the mainstream media, and is viewed by many as a potential successful Republican candidate for the presidency. Is Bridgegate his obituary or an opportunity to overcome adversity? 
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Thursday, June 28, 2012Still "SiCKO" After All These Years you will want to be in Philadelphia this weekend for the fifth anniversary reunion between Michael Moore and the cast of "SiCKO," his groundbreaking documentary about how people with health insurance in this country are routinely denied necessary care by our insurance companies. Former Cigna executive turned insurance industry critic and whistleblower will be there as well along with healthcare experts from around the U.S.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011Obama Admin Seeks Permission To Lie In Response To Freedom Of Information Requests - Even To The Courts The Administration that promised to be the most transparent in history continues to be obsessed with secrecy. Now they even seek the right to lie about the existence od government records in response to Freedom of Information requests -- even to the Judiciary.
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Friday, July 16, 2010WellPoint's White Knight Rides Again Many who are hoping for the best out of the recently enacted healthcare reform are less than heartened by the person appointed to launch and oversee the rollout.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010PA Dem State Committee Takes Single-Payer Healthcare Mainstream, Unanimously Endorses It It may be premature to suggest that single-payer is on the verge of passing in Pennsylvania, but after the State Democratic Committee unanimously endorsed the Single-Payer Legislation and three Gubernatorial candidates pledged to sign it when it reaches their desks, the light at the end of the tunnel is clearly in sight.
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Monday, December 28, 2009Health Insurance Monopolies Are Illegal. There Is No Insurance Antitrust Exemption It is widely perceived that the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945 bestowed an exemption to federal anti-trust law upon the insurance industry which has enabled a handful of health insurance companies to grow into gargantuan predatory monopolies immune to anti-monopoly legislation. In fact the Act was intended to empower both the federal government and the states to enforce antitrust regulations against the insurance industry. |
