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When it comes to politics, 2014 may be remembered as the year of the improbable. In Kansas, a GOP stronghold, both the Republican governor and a very conservative senator are fighting for their politi...

The main talk of the 2014 election has been which political party will control the Senate after the votes have been counted. Democrats have been on defense throughout most of the country as President ...

While the FAA continues to weigh different options on how to regulate the domestic use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), the use of drones have already been in play, for better or for worse.In Se...

Never let it be said that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) doesn’t know how to make an entrance — or exit.The onetime Republican presidential candidate arrived late to a homeland security committee hearing o...

One of the fundamental laws of psephology (the study of elections) is Duverger’s Law. This “law” affirms that in single-member districts, where the winner is whoever wins the most votes (plurality vot...

1. Albuquerque Journal says open primaries are something Democrats and Republicans can agree on."More than one in five voters in New Mexico declined to state a party when registering to vote. About 38...

1. Democratic legislators in New Mexico say they support opening primaries up to independent voters."The effort is being taken up by two Democratic state legislators from Albuquerque. Sen. Bill O’Neil...

Thirteen-year-old Stephanie Roman-Reyes can identify with the tens of thousands of refugee children in danger of deportation along the southern U.S. border.Huddled beneath a tree in Lafayette Squ...

1. New Mexico's secretary of state refuses to defend the state's closed primary system."This week New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran responded to a lawsuit filed by Albuquerque attorney J. Edw...

1. The New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union sues New Hampshire secretary of state over restrictive ballot access laws."The law says third parties may not gather signatures to petition their way onto ba...