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Cracking The Ceiling: Is Trump Turning the Tide on Clinton?
Ahh, the ebbs and flows of a presidential campaign. One day the polls say you have zero chance of winning, the next day you’re holding a slim lead.So goes the battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald...
Millennial Candidates: The Key to Breaking Government Gridlock?
While Congress has continued to diversify over the last decade in terms of both gender and race, one element that has not changed is the average age of the institution’s members. The 113th Congress ha...
Between A Rock and A Hard Place: Where Will Party Members Turn in November?
The Republican and Democratic parties are facing an interesting dilemma this year. How do party members get behind their respective nominees and their campaigns and vote for them even if they have str...
Why Science and Politics Will Never Make Good Bedfellows
It was 1897 and amateur mathematician Edward J. Goodwin had done what scholars had been baffled by for over 2,000 years: squaring a circle. Without going into any lengthy mathematical discourse, he ha...
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...
Cruz Desperately Needs to Sink A 'Granny Shot' in the Hoosier State
Ever since Cruz's speech where he shamelessly set up the scene from the 1986 film Hoosiers, I haven't been able to get the movie out of my mind.I hate it when that happens. Now whenever the ...
Why More Needs to be Done to Give Early Voters a Meaningful Vote
Zoom In: Frontrunners are full steam ahead in Acela PrimaryLast Tuesday, voters in the Acela Primary made their voices heard. Donald Trump swept the Republican primaries by large margins. In the ...
Is Ted Cruz Eligible to Run for President? Illinois Judge to Weigh In
In Illinois, a judge is expected to rule whether one of the top Republican challengers to Donald Trump is eligible to run for president.Born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father, the mat...
13 States Consider Expanding Use of Ranked Choice Voting in 2016
With a new year comes a new legislative session in state houses around the U.S. 2016 has seen state legislators nationwide use this opportunity to empower voters by introducing bills that create new u...
OPINION: Debunking the Lesser-of-Two-Evils Voting Theory
Anyone who has ever supported a third-party presidential candidate in an election has likely had to defend their decision from partisans who endorse the lesser-of-two-evils voter theory. By the l...