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First published at Real Clear Politics The national discussion on whether America is ready for a female president provides both insight and context to the challenges that face independent candidates. Columnist Rebecca Traister offered the insight that the question itself, and not the sex of the candidate, is the real barrier to the electability of a woman: she wrote What Traister recognizes is the important connection between who a voter wants to vote for and the perceived viability of that

The impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump is underway! And it is... intensely predictable. This is why more and more voters are becoming independent. Democrats Want Trump Removed *GASP* And Republicans (You Guessed It) Want Him Acquitted CNN's public polling finds voters are evenly divided between wanting the Senate to remove Trump from office, and wanting the Senate to acquit him. How curiously suspicious that Democrats overwhelmingly support removal and Republicans overwhelmingly

It was nearly four years ago that voters did the unthinkable. They rejected the party establishments’ favored candidates. And they did so to pick literally Donald Trump as America’s next president. That decision by the electorate completely blindsided Washington political operatives and the mainstream media analysts. How could Donald Trump have beat Jeb Bush for the Republican nomination in the first place? And then Hillary Clinton for the Oval Office? Trump was a total political outsider.

For over twenty years, political party insiders in Florida have been conspiring against the voters to stop them from establishing open primaries. But the tide is turning.   In 1998, when independents were starting to emerge as a significant portion of the Florida electorate, voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment allowing every voter to vote in the primaries when the winning candidate would be unopposed in the general election. The voters knew then, as they do now, that the

Ranked choice voting, an alternative ballot method, has been under attack by the press. Unlike the traditional “pick one” ballot used in most U.S. elections, ranked choice ballots allow voters to rank the candidates in order of preference. If no candidate gets a majority of first preference choices and a voter's first choice comes in last, their candidate is eliminated in an automatic round of runoff and their second choice will be be counted in the runoff round. This process iterates down the

Ranked choice voting, an alternative ballot method, has been under attack by the press. Unlike the traditional “pick one” ballot used in most U.S. elections, ranked choice ballots allow voters to rank the candidates in order of preference.

Impeachment headlines have dominated the news cycle for much of Donald Trump’s presidency. The relentless clamor for impeachment, along with the lack of anything substantial so far for Democrats to hang their hat on as an impeachable offense, smacks of partisan fervor and political gamesmanship, rather than serious and enlightened statecraft. The loudest voices for impeachment appear to have their end in mind ahead of any facts that might turn up impeachable offenses, and they’ve spent Preside

Here are four reasons voter reform is a far better, and more permanent solution to the problems the most earnest Democrats are hoping to solve by impeaching Donald Trump.

US. Rep. and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard released a video statement on Thursday, October 10, saying she is considering boycotting the October 15 DNC debate in response to the DNC and corporate media's attempt to rig the election process. "The 2016 primary election was rigged by the DNC and their partners in the corporate media against Bernie Sanders," Gabbard says in the video. "In this 2020 election, the DNC and the corporate media are rigging the election again, but this t

US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says she is "seriously considering" boycotting the October 15 DNC debate.