Jon Green
Jon Green is a junior Political Science major and Public Policy concentrator at Kenyon College. He is also the co-editor in chief of the Kenyon Observer, the school's student-run political journal. Jon worked as a field organizer for Tom Perriello in 2010 and recently returned to AMERICAblog from the Obama campaign, where he was a Deputy Regional Field Director based in Hampton, Virginia. He writes on a variety of topics but pays particularly close attention to elections, political psychology and the use of social media. Jon on Google+, and his .

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Why the GOP uses the epithet “Democrat Party”

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The term “Democrat Party” – versus the correct “Democratic Party” – is a GOP slur dating back to the 1940s.
Tea Party compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler in an email fundraiser.

The IRS shouldn’t investigate the Tea Party. Homeland Security should.

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It’s crazy that the IRS investigated the Tea Party. These folks are far too unstable for just the IRS.
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On Benghazi, it’s time for Republicans to pee in a cup

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The GOP is so dead set on playing games with Benghazi, then let’s play, and beat them at their own game.
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Do 1 in 4 college kids really need anti-depressants?

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In a recent survey, 1 in 4 Kenyon students were on anti-depressants, and 1 in 3 used ADHD drugs as “study aids.”
Oklahoma State Rep Dennis Johnson says "Jew down the price" during floor debate.

GOP legislator talks about “Jewing down the price,” then laughs about it

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This, on the heels of GOPers calling women “vaginas,” Latinos “wetbacks,” and using the term “n*gger-rig.”
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South Korea hadn’t stopped English from coming, it came just the same

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A few thoughts about South Korea’s failed effort to stop the American cultural invasion.
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There’d be 14 dead in Texas if he’d had a gun instead of a knife

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A horrible attack in Texas, that would have been much worse if the assailant had a gun.
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NC GOP pushing poll tax to stop Dem-leaning college kids from voting

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We’ve finally found the one tax Republicans actually like: the poll tax.
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Pay college athletes, and stop pretending it’s ‘just for fun’

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The NCAA operates a multi-billion dollar collegiate sports industry, but refuses to admit that its employees stu
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Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

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Has the creepy science of information- and data- marketing finally gone too far?
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