1.0 link 225433 <![CDATA[The Franken Factor (and Counting to 60)]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/juliette-powell/the-franken-factor-and-co_b_225433.html As America celebrates its 233rd year of independence, many of us are engaging in political discourse for the first time and turning towards pundits to explain and contextualize current events. Despite advances in the technology used to support the political process, the traditional keys to individual engagement remain the 3 R's (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic) learned in school as the basic building blocks of a solid educational foundation. So what happens when the political pundits forget how to count?

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