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On Thursday, August 28, Politico reported on a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll that said 35 percent of likely GOP caucus voters would vote for Mitt Romney in 2016 if he was added to the field of candidates. The poll released one day after it was reported that Mitt Romney was considering a third presidential run. By considering a third presidential run, Romney said that while he has insisted for months that he will not run, "circumstances could change." "In Wednesday’s survey of 170 likel

A New Jersey Federal District Court judge dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of New Jersey’s closed primary system. Currently, 2.6 million registered voters in New Jersey are prohibited from participating in the primary election unless they join either the Republican or Democratic party. The plaintiffs, which included registered Republicans and Democrats as well as unaffiliated voters, argued that this current primary system, funded by taxpayers, gives the Republican and

(Newark, N.J.) -- In July, New Jersey Attorney General John J. Hoffman filed a response in federal court on behalf of the state of New Jersey (including Governor Chris Christie and Secretary of State Kim Guadagno) to an opposition to the state's motion to dismiss a lawsuit defending the rights of voters. The lawsuit asserts that all voters have a fundamental right to equal and meaningful access to all integral stages of the electoral process. In its response, the state argues that if voters wan

Winners in bold: House of Representatives: * CD-4 Tom McClintock 60.1% v. Art Moore 39.9% in CD-4 (GOP) * CD-17 Mike Honda 52.2% v. Ro Khanna 47.8% in CD-17 (DEM) * CD-19 Zoe Lofgren 66.8% v. Robert Murray 33.2% in CD-19 (DEM) * CD-25 Tony Strickland 46.5% v. Steve Knight 53.5% in CD-25 (GOP) * CD-34 Xavier Becerra 73.3% v. Adrienne Nicole Edwards 26.7% in CD-34 (DEM) * CD-35 Norma Torres 63.3% v. Christina Gagnier  36.7%in CD-35 (DEM) * CD-40 Luiclle Roybal-Allard 61.4% v. David Sanch

How many times have we heard variations of the following soundbites from enterprising political candidates: “My business experience has prepared me to be an effective leader.” “Because of my business experience, I know how to balance a budget, not spend more money than I have, and create jobs.” “It’s time to apply good business practices to Washington.” Etcetera. Etcetera. Voters could recite them as thoughtlessly as a child singing an advertisement jingle. Yet, for all the repetition, these st

(Newark, N.J.) — In May, New Jersey Secretary of State Kim Guadagno filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed to defend the individual voting rights of New Jersey voters, regardless of their party affiliation, including the 47 percent of New Jersey voters who have chosen not to affiliate with a party at all. The plaintiffs argue that New Jersey’s closed partisan primary system violates an individual's right to vote because: (1) the primary conditions a voter's right to participate on giving up

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, Montana, Hawaii, Utah, and New Jersey. The all-mail system is relatively new; Oregon was the first state to institute it after a referendum in 1998. Washington followed in 2011 and Colorado soon after in 2013. All three states introduced all-mail locally and its popularity led to its widespread use

An adage of former president Richard Nixon was to run to the right in primaries and move to the center in the general election. One of the more-discussed potential 2016 presidential candidates, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), has taken an approach that might be running the axiom in reverse. Paul's first speech from the U.S. Senate floor in 2011 famously downplayed compromise. In 2012, he called Paul Ryan's contentious budget proposal "tepid." In 2013, with his party filibustering the nomination

According to one comprehensive study, the national poverty rate was approximately 27 percent in 1967: without decades of welfare programs, that rate would have risen to 29 percent by 2011 rather than dropped, as it did, to 16 percent. Yet despite this overall improvement, significant changes in these welfare programs -- in combination with economic deterioration over the last decade -- have left three groups especially vulnerable. America's welfare system is failing the poor, single individual

By the time Dwight David Eisenhower became president of the United States, he had already secured historical immortality as the supreme commander of the victorious Allied Forces in the Second World War. While vanquishing the Nazis, he could not help but marvel at the infrastructural achievements of the Germans, most notably their broad highway network called the Autobahn. The German’s national accomplishment juxtaposed strongly with the United States’ meagerly funded, crumbling interstate highw