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PBS Educates Voters Nationwide on Restrictive Voting Laws with 'Ballot Watch'
The 2014 midterm elections are less than a month away and the GOP is poised to seize a majority in the Senate, though that would require winning some close races. Some are expected to come down to jus ...
09 Oct, 2014
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Looking to the Founders: Be Willing to Adjust Your Political Views
I always love seeing quotes from founding father Thomas Jefferson; especially, any about Jefferson's hatred for public debt.Jefferson's overall ideology was one of a smaller federal government with li ...
22 Sep, 2014
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Let The Voters Decide: Why I Now Support the Top-Two Primary
When I first heard about the top-two primary system, I thought "Yeah, it's alright but not all that helpful." In fact, there might be an IVN article where I endorse it, but don't exactly shout it ...
26 Aug, 2014
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New Poll: 70% of Americans Don't Want Government Meddling in Women's Choices
The fight over control of the Senate is heating up. Although Nate Silver’s website, fivethirtyeight.com, predicts that the Republicans remain slightly favored to take over the Senate, he cautions that ...
25 Aug, 2014
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IVN Daily Digest -- July 16, 2014
1. California No Party Preference candidate Dan Schnur published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Daily News about the growing independent voting bloc and the future of politics."Independent voters are no ...
16 Jul, 2014
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America's Welfare System Is Failing Those Most in Need
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 ...
16 Jul, 2014
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What Happens if the Highway Trust Fund Gets Too Low?
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 Wa ...
15 Jul, 2014
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IVN Daily Digest -- July 9, 2014
1. An opinion piece in the News Leader argues that Virginia should not indulge partisan calls to close the state's primaries after Eric Cantor lost his seat.Interestingly enough, one of the biggest na ...
09 Jul, 2014
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Can Open Primaries and Two-Party Systems Coexist?
On June 24, incumbent Mississippi U.S. Senator Thad Cochran managed to overcome his primary challenger, state Senator Chris McDaniel, in the state's runoff election. McDaniel, heavily backed by the te ...
01 Jul, 2014
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Rand Paul: I'm for More People Voting, Not Less
The outcome of the Mississippi Republican runoff election between U.S. Senator Thad Cochran and state Senator Chris McDaniel has sparked controversy within the GOP. McDaniel and his campaign are curre ...
26 Jun, 2014
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