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The Republican and Democratic parties are facing an interesting dilemma this year. How do party members get behind their respective nominees and their campaigns and vote for them even if they have strong feelings against the nominee's positions and their perceived lack of personal integrity? In an election year when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have favorability ratings close to that of Ivan Drago in Rocky IV after he killed Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, will party members vote the pa

On Tuesday, June 7, 6 states -- California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, and South Dakota -- will hold Democratic presidential contests in what has proven to be a hotly contested race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. In total, there are 694 pledged delegates up for grabs, a big jackpot for the candidate who can garner the most votes. However, on the eve of this major primary election day, the Associated Press (AP) announced that Clinton had the number of delegates n

While the Republican Party is trying to unify its members behind the party's presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, there are some GOP lawmakers, consultants, and politicos who are still holding on to the #NeverTrump movement as long as they can. However, according to the Lincoln Journal-Star, there is only one Republican senator who has said he refuses to support his party's nominee: Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) Sasse says that no matter what happens, he will not be voting for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinto

San Diego, CA - Speaking before a crowd of about 500 supporters and local Democratic politicos at the Prado in Balboa Park, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton unleashed attack after attack on Donald Trump’s foreign policy rhetoric, calling the Republican presidential nominee “unfit to be commander-in-chief.” Clinton passionately declared, “Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different, they’re the dangerous incoherent ramblings of a person unfit to lead this country. It’s

What does it mean when we say “rigged elections”? For starters, the Republican Party wants to shut independents out of primaries altogether while Democratically controlled states like California and New York have made it more difficult for independent voters to participate. And the two major parties have, literally, a bipartisan partnership that actively prevents a third candidate from participating in the general election presidential debates. This is in addition to the huge increase in fund

The Daily Caller (TheDC) reported Thursday that billionaire David Koch has pledged "tens of millions of dollars" to support Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson in the 2016 election. This information reportedly was provided by a source within the Johnson campaign. TheDC reports: "Koch’s money will be made available should Johnson, a former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, secure his second consecutive Libertarian Party presidential nomination, the source said. The Liber

As events from this past week portray, there is a growing divide between the leadership within the two major political parties and members of the American public. While other establishment candidates have remained relatively silent on the issue of independent voter participation, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders responded to Wasserman Schultz explaining that “more and more people are going outside the Democratic and Republican parties; we have millions and millions of independen

In June, I watched donald trump in New Hampshire speak at a campaign appearance in a big home before an all-white audience. (donald trump appears in lower case, as I refuse to accord him the dignity he routinely refuses others, but in doing so, I extend my apologies to e e cummings.) I watched his show courtesy of MSNBC, which astonishingly covered it live – all of it. Trump in his Live Free or Die campaign stop was my first indication that MSNBC, ostensibly the “liberal” cable network, would

2016 is here, and politics-as-usual has been turned on its head. Democrats and Republicans are switching affiliation to their rival parties in historical numbers. Front-runners in the GOP and Democratic Party have the highest unfavorable, and lowest favorable ratings in presidential history, and independents outnumber Republican and Democrat voters. Things are changing in U.S. politics. Independent and third-party candidates are geared up to offer alternatives to establishment politicians. Tid

With the escalating disenfranchisement of voters, the possibility of a prominent third party candidate gaining national attention has become a popular topic. As one of the few parties with ballot access in all 50 states, the Libertarian Party is increasingly drawing the attention of independent voters. Those interested in learning more about the party were provided with the first ever nationally-televised Libertarian Party debate Friday night on Fox Business News. Hosted by FBN anchor and self-