Search query: massachusetts
Romneycare: A Case Study for Obamacare
As many are now growing very skeptical of the new health care law, and as its critics are now louder than ever, the Obama administration is moving fast and furiously to fix the Affordable Care Act."Ob ...
12 Nov, 2013
-
4 min read
Voters Not Just Open to Independent Candidates; They're Demanding Them
As we move into the ninth month of this campaign, there is an increasing amount of news about the large and growing numbers of independent voters. It should come as no surprise, given that the ...
05 Nov, 2013
-
5 min read
Top 25 Political Funders Include Home Depot and the City of New York
There is a lot of money in politics, from local, to state, to federal elections. But some groups give a lot more to candidates and committees than others. Data was collected from the Center for R ...
29 Oct, 2013
-
7 min read
New Independent Candidate Joins Massachusetts Gubernatorial Race
Jeffrey McCormick is the latest candidate to enter the 2014 gubernatorial election in Massachusetts. He is best known as the founder of Saturn Partners, a venture capitalist firm established in 1994 ...
28 Oct, 2013
-
1 min read
Just 35 of 435 Elections Competitive after 201 Years of Gerrymandering
"Power corrupts, and the prospect of losing power corrupts absolutely." - John P. RocheNext November, Americans will elect representatives to the 114th Congress. As of October 20, the current Congress ...
25 Oct, 2013
-
6 min read
30 Reasons Why Independent Voters Are Not a Myth
Political scientists and party pollsters run with a common narrative: Independent voters are a myth."We think of them as closet partisans who act in almost indistinguishable ways to those who identify ...
24 Oct, 2013
-
6 min read
A Timeline and History of Voting Rights
The history of voting rights in the U.S. has been a long battle of disharmony and disenfranchisement since the country’s formation and although freedom and voting are frequently associated with one a ...
22 Oct, 2013
-
5 min read
What Kind of Voter Will You Be in 2014?
Evan Falchuk / United Independent PartyMonth 4, September 2013"The way to get started is to quit talking, and start doing." – Walt DisneyIn the fourth month of this diary of my independent campaign f ...
01 Oct, 2013
-
5 min read
Climate Scientists Have Obligation to Political Impartiality, Experts Argue
Tatiana Grozetskaya // ShutterstockA study from the University of Texas-Austin, one of the most comprehensive on methane leakage from shale gas emissions to date, found that 99 percent of the greenho ...
24 Sep, 2013
-
2 min read
Massachusetts Campaign Finance Limits Unfairly Benefit Two Party System
Capital building in Boston Mass. // Shutterstock.comWhile Massachusetts is known to be one of the most independent states in the country, with 53 percent of its registered voters listed as unaf ...
23 Sep, 2013
-
3 min read