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No matter who wins the presidential election, I can tell you who the losers are in coverage of the big night: intelligence and common sense.

I’ve been watching CNN early on, and in its hunger to provide viewers with that ultra-niche information they can’t get on Fox News or MSNBC (but might well be able to garner from a Magic 8-Ball) they’ve been asking exiting voters questions they appear...

So the presidential election is upon us and you’re still undecided? Perhaps you’re put off or confused by the rhetoric and the ads, and tuned out months ago.

Don’t despair. ISideWith.com is here for you.

The website was developed earlier this year to help voters sift through the issues and find a presidential candidate who holds their views. It’s the brainchild of two friends in Los...

Reality has a rude way of intruding on ideology.

Hurricane Sandy has left a multistate swath of destruction that in the New York City region alone will no doubt cost billions of dollars to clean up and repair. So while small government of limited means and responsibilities may sound good in ordinary times, extraordinary moments like this provide good reason to rethink whether that’s really...

Hurricane Sandy has forced a time-out in the increasingly nasty presidential campaign.

Sandy-anticipation has essentially shut down the New York City region and much of the East Coast. But to borrow a cliché, “It’s an ill wind that blows no good.” The consequences of the storm are yet to be assessed, but for now, the public could use a break from this mean-spirited race as it enters the homestretch.

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For all the expectation months ago that foreign policy was the landmine waiting to explode under Mitt Romney’s feet, it didn’t quite happen. It was a foreign policy debate without a major Gerald Ford moment. Mitt Romney didn’t step on that landmine by saying something like what President Ford did, saying that Eastern Europe was not under Russian domination.

But Monday's debate in Boca Raton,...

It’s actually comforting that President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney don’t disagree all that much at the start of their third debate on what the nation should be doing in the Middle East. They’re dancing on the head of a pin to find contrasts.

Things are messy and chaotic in Syria and Libya and elsewhere in the region. But change is like that, particularly when people are throwing off oppressive...

So this is it -- the rubber match in a three-debate presidential battle that most onlookers agree is tied 1-1, after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney crushed Barack Obama in Denver under the snoozing eye of moderator Jim Lehrer and Obama won the Long Island rematch on points thanks to an odd assist from moderator Candy Crowley.

Tonight's debate in Boca Raton, Fla., is to focus entirely...