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In an age where over 90 percent of elections are determined in the primary, it's a rare occurrence for candidates to focus on voters who are not affiliated with a political party during the gene ...

The 2014 midterm elections are less than a month away and the GOP is poised to seize a majority in the Senate, though that would require winning some close races. Some are expected to come down to jus ...

1. The Open Primary Initiative in Oregon has raised over $1 million."Despite the donations, the measure faces stiff opposition. “Both parties have come out against it,” Henderson said."The initia ...

Most Americans have come to see our political system as highly dysfunctional.An October 2013 Gallup poll shows that 60 percent of Americans do not feel well-represented by either major party and favor ...

This fall, Oregonians will vote by mail to decide whether Oregon will join its neighbors, California and Washington, and become the third west coast state to pass the top-two primary.As expected, much ...

While the U.S. political scene is often described as polarized, many members within the major political parties can agree on one issue: privacy and surveillance. From Democrats like Dianne Feinstein a ...

A plume is haunting America -- the plume of legal marijuana. The November ballots of two states, Oregon and Alaska, and the District of Columbia will include initiatives to legalize recreational marij ...

1. State director for Oregon's Working Families Party explains why his organization endorsed the state's top-two primary initiative."As a minor political party we understand as intimately as anyone th ...

...measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.  --James Madison, ...

Three states -- Colorado, Oregon, and Washington state -- have all-mail voting systems in place, but if recent history is any guide, they will soon be joined by other states like California, Arizona, ...