Dirty campaigning has probably existed since cavemen needed to elect someone to handle fire for the first time. In the modern sense, muddy political tactics have taken the form of the attack ad.

This season of extreme partisanship is mercifully being brought to an end by Election Day and by the storm disaster in the Northeast.

The Cardiff School District is comprised of two schools: Cardiff Elementary, a K-3 school, and Ada Harris Elementary, a 3-6 school. Students usually move onto Encinitas Union schools for middle and high school. The Cardiff school board has five trustees elected to four-year terms. This November, two seats are up for election and three candidates are competing.

Thursday, Twitter launched a new interactive map aimed to provide users real-time data on the presidential candidates' most successful tweets. The Twitter engagement map allows users to click on a tweet from either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney and see how it ranked in terms of engagement in each state.

Obama and Christie came together in New Jersey in response to the devastation of Superstorm Sandy last week.

The political press was all atwitter with questions, speculation, and deep analysis about exactly what the meaning was behind the exchange of praise between the Governor and the President.

While a majority of the pubic eye is stationed on Ohio's presidential poll numbers, the Ohio Senate race could have serious implications for the country as well.