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The Sports Fanatic’s Guide to the Election

Contributor to The Leader
  COLIN PERRY Editor in Chief Writing in the Chicago Tribune earlier this year, Leonid Bershidksy claimed that the U.S. elections have become a sport. Americans divide themselves by team and spend month after month rooting for their pick. We eat up statistics every day and play armchair campaign manager......
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Scallion

Election Rigging 101: How to rig your local polling station: God knows we need it

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Patrick Bennett Staff Lampoonist In the next couple of weeks, an event will take place that will shape the American people. This isn’t even the announcement that Big Macs will be sold again for $1 on Mondays, it’s the presidential election. The two candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, are......
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Opinion

Editorial: A free society needs a free press

Contributor to The Leader
Is doing journalism a crime? Earlier this month, “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman was charged by prosecutors for participating in a “riot” after her reporting on the Dakota access pipeline filmed security guards using pepper spray and dogs on protesters. Those charges were rightfully recognized as ludicrous and were dropped,......
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Opinion

Conservative Corner: The final presidential debate takes a turn for the worst

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CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor A few nights ago saw the final presidential debate, and thank God that this debate was the last one. Like the other two presidential debates, this one focused on the candidates’ controversies rather than the policies they want to implement. One huge lesson we learned last......
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Opinion

Editorial: ‘Locker room talk’ is more than just Trump’s problem

Contributor to The Leader
Editorial: ‘Locker room talk’ is more than just Trump’s problem   Most people at least know of the things that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said recently regarding rape accusations made against him. Of course, he brushed them off as simple “he said, she said” situations and claimed that......
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Scallion

Many students sick from drinking after the second presidential debate

Contributor to The Leader
    JACLYN SPIEZIA Special to the Lampoon               Many millennials are struggling with the idea of whether or not they should vote, and if so, for whom. Although many thought that watching the debates would be a good idea in helping with their decision, they were only able to get......
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News

Presidential speechwriter Smith speaks on campaign history

Contributor to The Leader
JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer On Wednesday, Oct. 5, Fredonia’s ALL IN Democracy Challenge Committee continued its steady march of events to drum up political involvement on campus with a lecture from Craig Smith, a former speechwriter for President Gerald Ford and consulting writer for President George H.W. Bush. All throughout......
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Scallion

Make America Bald-Win again: Trump gets dumped for ‘SNL’ caricature artist

Contributor to The Leader
EMMA PATTERSON Staff Lampoonist   It seems Hillary Clinton isn’t Donald Trump’s only competition this election season. After Alec Baldwin’s spot-on impersonation of the Republican Presidential nominee in the season 42 premiere of  “Saturday Night Live,” Trump supporters everywhere have abandoned their leader in favor of Baldwin’s “more bigly” version......
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Scallion

Election 2016: Trump blows it bigly, disappears

Contributor to The Leader
D. ZBORNAK Staff Lampoonist Not surprisingly, the first presidential debate of 2016 left most Americans in an uproar about the potential leader of the U.S. The situation became significantly more intense, however, when it was announced that Donald Trump had mysteriously disappeared shortly thereafter, and that debate moderator Lester Holt......
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