More voters today are registering as independents than at anytime in American history. As partisan campaigns seek to divide the nation into a superficial left v. right or Democrat v. Republican mentality, the independent-minded voter looks for candidates that think and speak for themselves. The 2012 elections will be an important test of how independent-minded voters will assert themselves at the polls.
The Act, named after a case where the prosecution of a sex-trafficker was delayed because of the difficulty in proving the defendant knew the child’s age, would remove the knowledge of age requirement for child sex trafficking cases, much like current statutory rape laws.
Amash is a formidable candidate who has already survived a gerrymandering attempt in 2012, which he won by nine points. A statewide campaign, however, has a lot of unknowns.
On Thursday, President Obama signed an executive order calling for the establishment of a Presidential Commission on Elections.
Online voter registration in California was found to increase the voting base of minority and low-to-middle income populations. Study from UC Berkeley.
There has been some recent controversy in Illinois’ second Congressional District. Former Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. (D) was indicted for stealing $750,000 from his own campaign funds…
Gabriel Gomez, a former Navy SEAL and principal investor at Boston’s Advent International, has joined the special election to fill John Kerry’s Massachusetts Senate seat.
The circumstances facing the GOP in 2016 are somewhat similar to what they were in 2000 when George W. Bush became the party standard-bearer. Therefore, there is definitely going to be interest…
