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FairVote Joins Lawsuit to Open Presidential Debates
For two decades, the Commission on Presidential Debates has excluded every candidate from the general election presidential and vice-presidential debates but two: the nominees of the Republican and De...
Here's How The Presidential Candidates Are Doing with the National Popular Vote
Our updated blog on the more than 600,000 votes cast for withdrawn candidates includes a spreadsheet where we show the total votes earned by all the Republican and Democratic candi...
With Re-Election Coming Up, Washington Superdelegates May Have to Defect from Clinton Camp
All in all, my political predictions in February and March are holding fairly true, but what no one could have predicted was the blowout wins Sanders has had in the last 5 contests in the Mo...
Is Hillary Inevitable Again?
The answer to the question in the title is “yes.” For all but about two weeks of the past four years, she has been the inevitable 2016 Democratic nominee. For about a week after the Iowa caucuses, and...
Jill Stein: Democratic Party Has Track Record of Sabotaging Reformers Like Sanders
argues that “he Democratic Party has a very clear track record of sabotaging rebels."In a recent interview with Katie Herzog from Grist, Green Party presidential candidate Jill SteinStein i...
Independent Voters are Defying Pollsters, Party Establishment in 2016 Primaries
If anything can be said about the current presidential primary season, it's been dramatic -- from Trump swaying the GOP electorate with blustering rhetoric to the tight contest between Sanders and Cli...
Reality Check: Democrats Have a Major Superdelegate Problem
Reality Check: Democrats Have a Super-Delegate ProblemReality Check: Democrats Have a Super-Delegate ProblemPosted by Ben Swann on Thursday, March 10, 2016The Democratic Party has a problem: superde...
Vote Splitting in GOP Contest Continues to Wreak Havoc on Entire Process
March 9th update: Donald Trump finished first in the Michigan primary, where candidates' percentages closely tracked the Monmouth poll -- Trump earning 37% of the Republican primary vote, Ted Cruz 25%...
The Rust Belt Is Looking for an Economic Savior, And That May Be Bad News for Hillary
In 2008, Hillary Clinton swept the hardest hit of the Rust Belt states, with Barack Obama taking two on the fringe--his home state of Illinois and Wisconsin.As the 2016 campaign unfolds, with Mic...
GOP Donors, Leaders Reportedly See Contested Convention as Only Hope to Stop Trump
Current primary results have reportedly led GOP leaders to consider a contested convention if Donald Trump falls short of the 1,237 delegates needed to qualify for the nomination.According to a report...