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From Superdelegates to Brokered Conventions, Both Parties Really Don't Care What Voters Think
I’m a life-long Republican who hasn’t yet made up his mind for whom I’m voting for in California’s June presidential primary. I’m also co-chair of the Independent Voter Project, authors of California’ ...
18 Mar, 2016
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2016 is the Year the Parties Reap What They’ve Sown
No doubt 2016 is the anti-establishment year for U.S. politics.Nationally, both Sanders and Trump are polling at about 40% in their respective primaries. In both parties, experienced candidates have g ...
16 Mar, 2016
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Is Hillary Inevitable Again?
The answer to the question in the title is “yes.” For all but about two weeks of the past four years, she has been the inevitable 2016 Democratic nominee. For about a week after the Iowa caucuses, and ...
16 Mar, 2016
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Why We Need an Independent Third Party in America... And Now!
American politics is about to change. Not because of Donald Trump, per se, or Bernie Sanders. It's about to change because Americans are fed up with decades of division, discord, and political paralys ...
14 Mar, 2016
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No, Freedom of Speech Wasn't Violated During Trump's Rally
The recent cancellation of a Donald Trump rally in Chicago has re-energized a popular misconception about free speech in our country—namely, we all get to speak without receiving any flak for what we ...
14 Mar, 2016
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Reality Check: Democrats Have a Major Superdelegate Problem
Reality Check: Democrats Have a Super-Delegate ProblemReality Check: Democrats Have a Super-Delegate ProblemPosted by Ben Swann on Thursday, March 10, 2016The Democratic Party has a problem: superde ...
11 Mar, 2016
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AZ Campaign to Adopt Nonpartisan Elections Suspended after Key Donor Drops Out
Correction note: This article originally said that Open Primaries spent $300,000 in support of the donation disclosure initiative. It was the coalition in support of both initiatives. The article has ...
11 Mar, 2016
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Let's Face Reality: We're Stuck in Hopeless Gridlock
On Thursday, I was astonished to see someone argue that the gridlock and hopeless partisanship we see in Washington are just phenomenalized by the news, and that our politicians 'really do' work toget ...
11 Mar, 2016
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Op-Ed: California A 'No Party State' under Nonpartisan Election Reforms
On Thursday, March 10, Sherry Bebitch Jeffe and Douglas Jeffe published a column in Reuters about the impact nonpartisan election reforms are having in California, including independent redistric ...
11 Mar, 2016
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Justifying Egalitarianism: G.A. Cohen’s Socialist Critique of John Rawls' Liberalism
In 1999, President Bill Clinton praised the philosopher John Rawls (1921-2002) – who had just received the National Humanities Medal – for his contributions to liberal political thought. Clinton appla ...
10 Mar, 2016
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