In the last month, federal district courts in Idaho and South Carolina have handed down rulings on Republican party lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of each state’s open primary system.
The first special primary election for a Congressional office under California’s top two open primary system has been scheduled for May 17th, but new developments in a pending lawsuit
Independent and Latino voters are among the fastest growing segments of California’s electorate. A new poll provides a window into the Independent Latino vote and reveals that Independents now
Frustrated with the state’s government, one Independent activist in Utah has taken a novel approach to dealing with his representatives in the legislature: he’s put them up for
Three separate polls published last week by the Pew Research Center, WSJ/NBC News, and the Quinnipiac Polling Institute shed new light on some old assumptions about America’s Independents.
The top two open primary system is facing a legal challenge from an Independent activist affiliated with the Coffee Party movement.
On February 17th, former State Senate candidate Michael Chamness
The public’s deep discontent with the Democratic and Republican parties continues to bubble up to the surface of the national political dialogue. Indeed, the two-party system is itself up
On Saturday, hundreds of Independents from across the country gathered in New York City for the CUIP’s National Conference of Independents entitled, “Can Independents Reform America?”
The conference was
The response of the US political establishment to the popular uprising in Egypt reveals the hypocrisy of a long-standing bipartisan foreign policy consensus. Unlike Democrats and Republicans, Greens and Libertarians
A new survey conducted by Public Policy Polling has found that 37% of Americans and 51% of Independents are open to supporting a third party candidate for President in 2012.
Though the public furor over the Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration’s “enhanced” security protocols has died down since last November, third party and independent activists have
A little-noticed incident in Ellicott City, Maryland highlights the institutional hurdles and biases against minor political parties, the harassment of citizens engaged in constitutionally protected activities by public employees, the
