Americans are depressed and frustrated with the state of our current political climate that has reached new lows, with leaders scrambling to persuade their nominees to stick to the issues, to abandon attacks and negative tactics which have caused low morale among the US electorate.
We realize that political campaigns and elections are not supposed to be fun, but they should always reaffirm what’s best about democracy.
Democratic presidential candidates take the debate stage in Las Vegas under the time-honored rules of presidential debating, alone, unaided, defending their candidacies with only their wits and smiles.
While it will not really be a real debate in every sense of the word, because the word describes a clash of ideas and positions, it will be a media competition to see how accurately each candidate outlines his or her talking points, and other than some excursion into originality catch them in a flip-flop or a gaffe.
THE PEACE DIDN'T LAST
70 years ago the German unconditional surrender to Allied Forces ended World War II. V-E Day celebrated today.
NEW CONSERVATIVES BRITS
Conservatives win UK elections, a victory that returns Cameron to a stronger position and party leaders resign.
AMBASSADORS KILLED IN PAKISTAN
Diplomats from the Philippines and Norway were among those killed in a chopper crash in the country's north.
US SEVERE WEATHER
Storms and tornadoes across an area covering southern Kansas, western Oklahoma and parts of North Texas.
OBAMA VISITS EVERY STATE
Although some will move from shutdown villains to Congressional royalty, there is more than control of Congress at stake when US voters go to the polls today. Americans will vote in 36 gubernatorial races, they will elect thousands of state officials and have their say in about 140 statewide referendums. Voters who sit out some elections, but vote today could be playing a vital role by helping to keep our democracy on track.
It's an election year and Congress is poised to make some key decisions that will certainly affect museums, especially nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organizations.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service says that nonprofits "generally are permitted to engage in advocacy or lobbying related to their exempt purposes," although there are some rules to follow.
AAM has developed a true/false quiz to test your knowledge about how nonprofit museums are allowed to get involved during this election season. Good luck!
Museum is allowed to publicize Election Day.