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Top 2 to Top 5? New Ranked Choice Voting Option on the Table

Mainstream business experts in America are waking up to the failure of our country’s political system.

By John E Palmer

March 20, 2018

Top 2 to Top 5? New Ranked Choice Voting Option on the Table

Mainstream business experts in America are waking up to the failure of our country’s political system. Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School is without equal in his expertise

By John E Palmer

March 20, 2018

Spoiler Effect Manipulation May Be Tool in Russian Playbook

A largely ignored development at year-end 2017 was the story that the Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein’s campaign is under senate investigation for collusion with Russia.

By John E Palmer

January 1, 2018

INCREDIBLE: Third Party, Independent Representation Up 40% Since 2014

Voter distaste for both the Democratic Party and GOP seems to be at an all-time high. But candidate success outside the major parties remains elusive in Washington.

By John E Palmer

November 28, 2017

Almost Zero Competition in Our Political Parties, But New Bill Could Change That

Competition is the American way. In business, you hear the following saying: “If we don’t take care of the customer, somebody else will.”

By John E Palmer

September 11, 2017

Almost Zero Competition in Our Political Parties, But New Bill Could Change That

Competition is the American way. In business, you hear the following saying: “If we don’t take care of the customer, somebody else will.” As a nation, back to Teddy

By John E Palmer

September 11, 2017

Beware of Unconstitutional Claims Regarding Maine Ranked Choice Voting

Mainers face an important choice on Question 5 when they go to the polls on November 8th—whether to support ranked-choice voting to restore majority outcomes for electing its

By John E Palmer

November 5, 2016

US's Broad Ideological Spectrum Confined to Two Major Parties

As we stare down the barrel of one of the ugliest general elections for president of our lifetime, maybe a look back at what brought us to this point would

By John E Palmer

September 29, 2016

OPINION: Time to Break the Two-Party Stranglehold

Do we think it’s just "happenstance" that we’ve had just two parties (that have achieved representation in our government) for 200+ years? Do we think it&

By John E Palmer

May 4, 2016

The Presidential Election is Not Democracy in Action -- We Deserve Better

The 2016 presidential primary season is laying waste to any remaining notions — perhaps first introduced to many of us in high school civics — that our selection of a president is

By John E Palmer

March 26, 2016

Don’t Blame The 'Spoilers' — Fix Elections

The “three lanes” present in this year’s presidential primary are certainly the perfect storm for the GOP establishment. Today, the GOP elders’ calls to Ohio Governor John Kasich are

By John E Palmer

February 25, 2016

Engineered by the RNC, Winner-Take-All Primaries Are Now The Party's Worst Nightmare

Three establishment candidates remain standing in the GOP race — Kasich, Rubio, and Bush. Reince Priebus needs two of them to drop out soon, or he and the other GOP establishment

By John E Palmer

February 16, 2016