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South Dakota Moves A Step Closer to Nonpartisan Elections
South Dakotans for Nonpartisan Elections announced this week that it is launching a statewide campaign to educate voters about nonpartisan primaries in the hopes that Amendment V, an initiative to imp ...
29 Mar, 2016
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If They Want to Win, Libertarians Need To Rebrand
A debate featuring many of the candidates seeking the Libertarian Party created some ruckus within libertarian inner circles.Party front-runner Gary Johnson, who was the 2012 nominee, shrugged of ...
23 Mar, 2016
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1.2 Million Arizonans Barred from Participating in Presidential Contest They Pay For
Today, Arizona voters are headed to the polls to decide which presidential candidates they prefer to take the 58 delegates in the Republican contest and 75 delegates on the Democratic contest. Ho ...
22 Mar, 2016
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What Everyone Needs to Know About the Downfall of the Political Parties
One of the greatest of the Aesop's Fables was a sixth century one about a man, his son, and a small donkey. The fable is short, the gist is simple: the father and son get ridiculed for ridding the don ...
21 Mar, 2016
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Why The Greatest Threat To Personal Data May Be Political Campaigns
Running for political office has changed. The name of the game now is voter data. Political campaigns are now nothing more than huge data gathering machines. These campaigns suck up every detail abo ...
21 Mar, 2016
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Gary Johnson Receives Huge Endorsement in Bid for Libertarian Nomination
Gary Johnson’s bid for the Libertarian Party nomination continues to pick up steam after an endorsement from a key party official this week. William Redpath, a Virginia native, has spent years pr ...
18 Mar, 2016
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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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4 min read