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An Imperfect System: Presidential Elections Where The Voters Didn't Decide the Outcome
“Americans vote for their president.”Well, yes and no. America’s presidential election system relies on the Electoral College, a group of men and women chosen by state parties to vote in their favor. ...
15 Jul, 2016
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9 min read
Moving Toward Federalism: 17 States To Win The Presidency
It's easy to become a cynic when it comes to politics, but when a campaign overtly tells the press that they are going to focus predominately on 17 states for the win, cynicism goes into overdrive.It' ...
12 Jul, 2016
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Breaking Through The Duopoly: A Brief History of Third Parties in America
third par·tynoun: a person or group besides the two primarily involved in a situation, especially a dispute.Almost since the beginning of the American Republic, voters have had a third choice. A party ...
07 Jul, 2016
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What America and Its Leaders Should Learn From Brexit (But Probably Won't)
Days after Brits voted to leave the EU, what will actually happen is far from certain. Millions have signed a petition for a second referendum, which Prime Minister David Cameron claims won't happen.L ...
06 Jul, 2016
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9 min read
Despite What You've Heard, 2016 Was Not a Historic Year in Primary Turnout
This year’s presidential primaries began with a flurry of unconventional occurrences. A double-digit candidate count for the Republican Party, a political revolution, and daily Twitter attacks br ...
06 Jul, 2016
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3 min read
Democratic Parties in 19 States Vote in Favor of Superdelegate Reform
To date, seventeen Democratic State Conventions, one legislative district convention, and one county convention have voted to either abolish or reform superdelegates.Following frustration voiced ...
23 Jun, 2016
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2 min read
Why The Filibuster Remains Crucial to Our Republic
The all-powerful ability to form cloture in the Senate.Since the beginning of the Republic, the feature of requiring three-fifths (or at times two-thirds) of the Senate to cut-off debate of a topic ha ...
17 Jun, 2016
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5 Surveillance and Security Failures Since 2001
People are still gathering information about Omar Mateen, the shooter of the Orlando nightclub. However, Mateen was twice investigated by the FBI over suspected ties to terrorism. An unnamed source qu ...
13 Jun, 2016
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Bloomberg's Decision Not To Run Is Democracy's Dead Canary
This article was originally published in edited form in the May 2016 edition of USA Today Magazine.Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire 41 times over, decided that the system wa ...
03 Jun, 2016
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17 min read
IVP Presenta Iniciativa para Eliminar Regla de 50%+1 en Elecciones Primarias, Considera que Todos Deben Poder Votar en Noviembre
Independent Voter Project (IVP), autores de la ley top-two para las primarias no partidistas de California, sometieron una petición para enmendar la ley de la Ciudad de San Diego que declara ganadores ...
01 Jun, 2016
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3 min read