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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
Green Party Ballot Access at Highest Levels in 2016
Green Party ballot access campaigns have had more success in 2016 than ever before, according to Rick Lass, Ballot Access Coordinator for the Jill Stein campaign.You can check out the Greens' infograp ...
02 Sep, 2016
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5 min read
Major Party Ticket Floats Possible Support for Congressional Term Limits
Last week, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump proposed congressional term limits."I hear it from more and more people," Trump said of term limits for federal legislators. "We're going to tak ...
22 Aug, 2016
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2 min read
Ballot Access Blues: Controversial Cases From the 2016 Election Cycle
As with past election cycles, third party and independent candidates – as well as initiatives aimed at reducing the power of the two major parties – are struggling to achieve access to ...
19 Aug, 2016
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10 min read
Jill Stein's Ballot Access Campaign Gets Major Boost from Bernie Defectors
Green Party signature coordinators across the country are reporting an influx of Bernie Sanders supporters to the Greens' campaign. How far the new momentum will take the party in the 2 ...
02 Aug, 2016
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4 min read
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
#NeverTrump Movement Struggles in Search for New Presidential Candidate
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both rather unpopular. How unpopular? According to one recent poll, 52 percent of the public views Clinton unfavorably, and 55 percent view ...
23 May, 2016
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4 min read
2016 Primary Results Indicate Many Independents Are Not Moderates
By sheer statistical coincidence, the percentage of Americans who self-identify as independents (approximately 40 percent) is nearly identical to the percentage of Americans who self-identify as moder ...
19 May, 2016
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4 min read
Libertarian Party Obtains Ballot Access in Oklahoma for First Time in 16 Years
The Libertarian Party just scored a major victory in its quest to fulfill candidate Gary Johnson’s promise that the party will be on the ballot in all 50 states as an alternative to the Republica ...
21 Mar, 2016
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2 min read
Of All Hillary's Wins Tuesday Night, Missouri is Most Important -- Here's Why
With the vote virtually tied with 99 percent returns, Hillary Clinton is holding the slimmest of leads in Missouri--by about 1,500 votes out of almost 620,000 votes statewide.This is a huge win for Cl ...
16 Mar, 2016
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2 min read