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Robert J. Dole Institute Explores the ‘Rise of the Independents’
In a political world dominated by voices from the Republican and Democratic parties, the Robert J. Dole Institute at the University of Kansas stepped outside of the partisan narrative with its Spring ...
07 Jun, 2018
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No Joke, Maine's LePage Says We Need Minority Rule
In his weekly public address Wednesday, Maine Governor Paul LePage took time to talk about the upcoming June 12 primary elections, specifically about his objection to Clean Elections funding and -- in ...
06 Jun, 2018
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Human Rights Watch: U.S. Must Stop Separating Families At Border
Human Rights Watch has condemned the U.S. policy of separating immigrant children from their parents, following a denouncement of the policy by the U.N. human rights office Tuesday.In a press briefing ...
06 Jun, 2018
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Independent US Senator Says Yes on 1 to Protect Ranked Choice Voting in Maine
Maine independent US Senator Angus King recently broke his silence on Question 1, the ballot measure that protects ranked choice voting in Maine. He says he is voting for it, adding that state po ...
06 Jun, 2018
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San Diego Primary Offers Few Surprises As Focus Turns To November
The Primary served as a nice appetizer for what will surely be a remarkable and critically important main course in November. Statewide there was not a "blue wave" as promised by Democrats.Independent ...
06 Jun, 2018
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Iowa Primary: 'Battle Ground Primary' Features Healthcare
Health care is running front and center in the three Iowa races.Iowa went Trump in 2016, which saw the Democrats blown out of the water that year. Iowa Democrats are seeking to un-fracture their party ...
05 Jun, 2018
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DC-Based Indie Voters are Legally Disenfranchised from City Council Primary
If a Washington, D.C. voter doesn't interface with a party - specifically the Democratic Party - an unelected board of elections can legally declare that citizen has no right to vote for a municipal c ...
04 Jun, 2018
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NJ Party Bosses' Outrageous Ballot Trick to Maintain Power
In the op-ed,"The Voting Shell Game," which appeared in The Star Ledger and The Times of Trenton in February, Yael Niv highlights how a handful of unelected power brokers run our state, through allian ...
04 Jun, 2018
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Mailer Mash: District 4 Mailboxes Flooded with Propaganda
"I've never received this much mail for a race and I've lived here 40 years." ~ Anonymous 4th District VoterNo question the County Board of Supervisors wields tremendous power, but as the days countdo ...
01 Jun, 2018
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Sole DC GOP Candidate: I Strongly Support Nonpartisan Open Primaries
On June 19, residents of the District of Columbia can vote in one of four party primaries: Democratic, Libertarian, DC Statehood Green, or Republican. The party with the fewest candidates in the prima ...
01 Jun, 2018
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