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Political Wordplay: 2016's Slogans Decoded

Political Wordplay: 2016's Slogans Decoded

Take a trip through this year's presidential candidate slogans and logos with us as tour guide!

Meet The Candidates #4 - Marco Rubio: Thirsty for Success, Thirsty for Water

Meet The Candidates #4 - Marco Rubio: Thirsty for Success, Thirsty for Water

In this week’s Meet the Candidates, we’ll take a look at Marco Rubio, the GOP establishment’s next great hope for the presidency.  He’s currently in 4th place, but hey, that’s about as high as an establishment candidate can get, so...winning! He’s also the most popular candidate from Florida and the most popular Cuban candidate, so he’s really killing it on those fronts.  Other fronts Rubio’s killing it on?  Boring credit card scandals, immigration flip-flopping, and religion switching.  That’s right, did you know Rubio was once a young idealistic mormon?!?  Get all the details here!  

Meet The Candidates #3 - Gifted Hands, Questionable Brains: The Ben Carson Story

Meet The Candidates #3 - Gifted Hands, Questionable Brains: The Ben Carson Story

Carson’s life is a fascinating and uniquely American story, one that proves that...idiot savants are a real thing.  He’s the only candidate in the race that we’d let operate on our brains, but he doesn’t seem super capable of using his own to think analytically or practically about how to not make unnecessary references to slavery or Hitler.  How Carson wound up in the middle of a political maelstrom that he seems only casually interested in riding out is a real question, but we’ll be digging for answers as we take you through his life, chapter by chapter

Meet The Candidates #2 - The Lincoln Logs

Meet The Candidates #2 - The Lincoln Logs

Lincoln Chafee.  Linc Chafee. Good ‘ole Linc.  Third generation governor, beneficiary of Rhode Island's evident dedication to a grand tradition of near-monarchy, and member of any political party that will have him.  We've already delved into the biography of his Andover classmate Jeb!, so today we take a closer look at Linc, the aristocrat on the other side of the aisle.

Meet The Candidates #1 - A Lightning Bolt of Romance: The Jeb Bush Story

Meet The Candidates #1 - A Lightning Bolt of Romance: The Jeb Bush Story

Our first "meet the candidates" post!  Today, the curious case of Jeb(!) Bush, a man who many in the media still consider a “frontrunner” due to his campaign’s massive war chest.  This “frontrunner” moniker is curious, however, considering that he’s polling in single digits and is not even the most popular GOP candidate from Florida, but we digress.  Let’s get to know him better anyway.  Here, for your reading pleasure, is the story of Jeb! Bush, the forever-second-place Bush brother...