It is often claimed that in today’s media environment, people effectively cordon themselves off into the ideological equivalent of gated communities, sheltering themselves from alternative viewpoints and opinions that
Independents around the country are calling on Congress to hold hearings investigating the disenfranchisement of Independents from the political process. The campaign, launched by IndependentVoting.org, aims to bring much
Over the last ten years, Americans’ trust in their government has plummeted to all time lows. Across a wide array of polls and surveys, fewer than 20% of us believe
With 100% of precincts now reporting, it appears that California's first statewide test of its new top two open primary system did not result in higher levels of
On Tuesday, voters in California will head to the polls for the first statewide primary election to be held under the state's new top two primary system, adopted
When one urges support for third party or Independent candidates for elected office, the response from partisans of the Republican and Democratic parties is fairly predictable. Perhaps their most common
One of the most enduring myths in US politics is the assertion that there are no alternatives to the candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties. Many would-be voters
As W.E. Messamore reported here at IVN yesterday, no candidate for the Americans Elect nomination for president reached the organization's internal threshold to qualify for its online
In the last two weeks, European elections have given rise to a wave of anti-incumbent and anti-austerity sentiment among voters in France, Greece and even Germany, where the
In an IVN article published yesterday, Heather Rogers considered how census labels such as 'Hispanic' and 'Latino' fuel debate over the identification and even the self-
Though the public's confidence in the federal government has plummeted to record lows over the course of the last decade, the same cannot be said for state and
Occupy Wall Street protesters took to the streets in cities and towns across the country yesterday. In New York City, where the movement began last September, a large coalition of