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The GOP's Race Problem Goes Back to the Mad Men Era
"Now we'll be stuck with Goldwater," quips Roger Sterling of AMC's Mad Men, referring to recent news of Republican candidate Nelson Rockefeller's marriage to a divorcé 18 years his junior. Roger...
Working Families Party: The Most Influential Third Party in the U.S.?
In February 2015, Edwin Gomes became the first candidate running solely on the Working Families Party (WFP) line to win a seat in a state legislature. Gomes beat out four other candidates in a special...
Legalizing Marijuana Polls Better than 2016 Presidential Field
A Quinnipiac University poll taken in March released Monday. It found that more than 80 percent of adults in key swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida supported legalizing the use of ...
The 5 Biggest Reasons Why Plurality Voting Fails
Black and white illustrations by Andy Schuler.Any academic will tell you that our choose-one voting method (plurality voting) is a terrible, terrible voting method. (There’s better.) In fact...
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...
Independent Voter Project Talks Voting Rights on NBC7
On Sunday, March 22, the Independent Voter Project, represented by Chad Peace, discussed the current lawsuit before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the constitutionality of the closed...
2015 On Pace to Have Worst Measles Outbreak in Decades
As of February 6, there have been 121 reported cases of the measles in 17 states and Washington, D.C., in 2015 alone. If the measles outbreak continues at this pace, the number of repor...
Federal Regulators to Crack Down on Unaffordable Payday Loans
The New York Times reported Monday that federal regulators are expected to draft new rules to govern short-term loans, including car titles and payday loans, which to date have fallen mostly unde...
What The Bible Riots Can Teach Us About Modern American Society
"They are trying to take the Bible out of our schools!"While this might sound like a headline from any number of modern media outlets, this was a rallying cry of a series of riots that took place in P...
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...