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Here's Why It's So Important You Get Out and Vote Tuesday
2017 is an off-year for US elections. November 7 will see gubernatorial elections held in Virginia and New Jersey, as well as house state legislative elections in the same states. There will...
NJ Governor's Race: 5 Choices for Voters Fed Up with Two-Party Control
America’s “two-party” version of democracy is unsustainable. The good and bad news is that local and state politics is more important than ever.If there is to emerge some third way to take advantage o...
NJ: How Closed Primaries Produce Terrible Partisanship
The New Jersey primaries produced gubernatorial candidates that are speaking only to two ideological extremes. Politico reported Tuesday that in the 2017 governor's race in New Jersey, neither Democra...
Political Party Control is Protected By Courts, Funded By Your Taxes
One of the most interesting and important legal fights going on right now centers around the scope of the First Amendment rights of political parties. In a variety of contexts, the parties have assert...
One-Term Trump? Senator Rand Paul Teases Possibility
On Sunday evening, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) told MSNBC's Kasie Hunt that Donald Trump may not run for reelection in 2020, and that if he does, he may face a 2020 GOP primary challenge.During the inter...
Lawsuit Could Change Presidential Debates Forever Says Attorney for Independent Voter Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaBKD8rRDXM&feature=youtu.beChad Peace, attorney for the Independent Voter Project, as well as 6 high-profile signatories, filed an amicus brief on September 22, 20...
Council Pres. Pro Tem Mark Kersey Talks Short-Term Rentals, Homelessness, and Chris Cate
The San Diego City Council has a lot on its plate.From the debate over Short-Term vacation rentals, to the Hepatitis A outbreak and homeless crisis, several critical civic issues are coming to th...
Gamechangers: USC, ASU, Independent Voting Partner to Challenge Two-Party Academia
Arguably, academia is as guilty as the media, the politicians, and the two major parties themselves, of promoting partisanship.This is, in large part, because political scientists analyze elections as...
Why People Hate Politicians (And Why We Can’t Have Nice Things)
The statement "all politicians are corrupt" has as much truth to it as "all Muslims are terrorists" and "all Christians are ignorant bigots."But here’s the trap in American politics: there’s one polit...
Amicus Brief to Judge: Open Debates Matter
The bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debate’s (CPD) 15 percent rule exacerbates the political divide in the US, leaves millions of voters unrepresented in presidential elections, and undermines f...