Ethan Kasnett, an eighth grade student at the Lab School in Washington, DC, views the original constitution at the National Archives in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
President, U.S. Senate, Congress, and the Minnesota House of Representatives are the major races in the campaign of 2008. This is the first presidential election without an incumbent or sitting vice president involved since 1952.
Is civic literacy essential to vote?
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Midmorning asks what a well-informed citizen should know about America while preparing to vote, and whether, as some have suggested, such civics knowledge should serve as a prerequisite to casting a ballot.
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Richard Brake: Director of University Stewardship at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
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Mark Osterloh, MD: Physician and political reformer. In 2006, he led a ballot initiative that would automatically make each person who casts a vote eligible to win $1 million in unclaimed state lottery money.
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