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Greg Orman: "Open the Presidential Debates"
Greg Orman: "Open the Presidential Debates"
Greg Orman ran for U.S. Senate of Kansas in 2014 as an independent candidate against a 16-year incumbent, Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts. Despite the obstacles in running for U.S. Senate withou...
South Dakota Voters Lose Choice At Ballot Box
South Dakota Voters Lose Choice At Ballot Box
South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed a bill dramatically changing the laws governing ballot access for Independent candidates just months after an Independent took 17% of the vote in a s...
Why Cutting Congressional Pay Will Not Solve Any Problems
Why Cutting Congressional Pay Will Not Solve Any Problems
Facebook seems to be constantly inundated with memes that have similar themes to this one:There are several variations of this meme, from stating that Congress should make what our soldiers ...
Parties Treat Americans as Pawns in Their Partisan Games
Parties Treat Americans as Pawns in Their Partisan Games
After the results of the 2014 midterm elections were in, IVN published an article suggesting that Vice President Joe Biden may have intentionally sabotaged independent Greg Orman's campaign in the Kan...
Kansas SOS Kris Kobach Proposes Reforms to Strengthen Parties, Not Elections
Kansas SOS Kris Kobach Proposes Reforms to Strengthen Parties, Not Elections
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has submitted two new election reforms to the Kansas Legislature that are a direct response to the 2014 U.S. Senate race, where Republican incumbent Pat Roberts w...
From American Jobs to the Banking Industry: Who Will Unusually Low Oil Prices Hurt Most?
From American Jobs to the Banking Industry: Who Will Unusually Low Oil Prices Hurt Most?
Two weeks ago, I took an immense amount of criticism in the comments section on both the IVN page and Facebook site for the article, 3 Reasons Why Lower Gas Prices Are Not A Good Thing.Representing&nb...
Partisan Advocate Fears Calif. Court May Side with Voters
Partisan Advocate Fears Calif. Court May Side with Voters
On Thursday, January 15, oral arguments were made before the California State Appeals Court in San Francisco in the case Rubin v. Bowen. Third parties continue to challenge the nonpartisan, top-two op...
Can Independents Win Statewide Campaigns?
Can Independents Win Statewide Campaigns?
A 2014 Gallup survey showed that a majority of Americans – for the first time since Gallup started asking the question – believe their children’s lives and lifestyle will be worse off than their own. ...
Marijuana Use Growing Nationwide; Adults Leading Trend
Marijuana Use Growing Nationwide; Adults Leading Trend
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration published state-level data from it's National Survey on Drug Use and Health this month. The data examines marijuana use in each state from...
Meet The Most Independent Politicians of 2014
Meet The Most Independent Politicians of 2014
This year did not give voters much in terms of transcending partisanship at the Congressional level. However, breakthroughs of candidates and politicians who have publicly challenged the fic...