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Independent, Third Party Candidates: Vote Your Conscience; Stick With Us
Why stick with third party and independent candidates in November, if Clinton and Trump have a combined 80% of the electorate in all major polls? In an election season that is anything but usual, one ...
10 Oct, 2016
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13 min read
Lilac Hills Ranch is Bad for San Diego
Opponents:San Diego League of Women VotersThe San Diego Union-TribuneThe San Diego County Democratic PartySan Diego County Middle Class Taxpayers’ Association There are many good reasons to oppos ...
09 Oct, 2016
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2 min read
America Is Clearly Ready to Legalize Marijuana
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that voters in 5 states are leaning toward legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Another big year for pro-legalization advocates could put pressure on the f ...
05 Oct, 2016
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2 min read
WikiLeaks Wants to Tear Down the Two-Party System
In celebration of WikiLeaks' 10th anniversary Tuesday, the website's founder, Julian Assange, held a press conference via video link in Berlin to announce that the website wil ...
04 Oct, 2016
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2 min read
Two's Company, Three's a Crowd in U.S. Elections
We are staring down the barrel of one of the ugliest general elections for president of our lifetime, and many of us are wondering about our lack of choice. Like it or not, we Americans have just  ...
03 Oct, 2016
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8 min read
Tired of Political Status Quo, Two-Party Duopoly Fuels Voter Apathy
The 2016 Presidential election has been dubbed by many as a choice between “the lesser of two evils” and many voters are so disenchanted with the entire process that they are threatening to sit out th ...
27 Sep, 2016
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10 min read
Don't Be Ashamed to Vote Third Party
Media pundits and prominent publications are putting the full court press on third-party candidates. It is no coincidence that Hillary Clinton’s efforts to attract millennial voters coincides with the ...
26 Sep, 2016
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4 min read
To Send a Real Message to the Two Parties, Join a Third Party Now
Understandably, readers of the IVN pride themselves on their status as… well… independent voters. Voters are jettisoning the Democratic and Republican Parties faster than you can say “record high unfa ...
23 Sep, 2016
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6 min read
The Curious Case of Bob Schieffer: Does the Debate Commission Tolerate Dissent?
According to the internet’s wayback machine, retired CBS broadcaster Bob Schieffer was a member of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) between September 2015 and December 2015.This is an oddl ...
22 Sep, 2016
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1 min read
Why Trump's 'Bowls Full of Skittles' Outright Disgusts Me
On my Chinese family's side, I'm a 4th generation American. On my English family's side, one of my distant great-grandfathers was the founder of Connecticut, Thomas Hooker.As someone with part of my f ...
21 Sep, 2016
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5 min read