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An Imperfect System: Presidential Elections Where The Voters Didn't Decide the Outcome
“Americans vote for their president.”Well, yes and no. America’s presidential election system relies on the Electoral College, a group of men and women chosen by state parties to vote in their favor. ...
15 Jul, 2016
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Democratic Parties in 19 States Vote in Favor of Superdelegate Reform
To date, seventeen Democratic State Conventions, one legislative district convention, and one county convention have voted to either abolish or reform superdelegates.Following frustration voiced ...
23 Jun, 2016
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Schwarzenegger Asks South Dakotans to Help Terminate Partisanship by Passing Amendment V
Rapid City, SD - June 14, 2016 – In an Op-Ed published in the Rapid City Journal on Sunday, June 12, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a longtime proponent of nonpartisan open primarie ...
14 Jun, 2016
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#NeverTrump Movement Struggles in Search for New Presidential Candidate
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both rather unpopular. How unpopular? According to one recent poll, 52 percent of the public views Clinton unfavorably, and 55 percent view ...
23 May, 2016
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Is Kasich Right About DC Statehood Opposition?
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich is often plain spoken, even about his own party's flaws.In a meeting with the Washington Post's editorial board, Kasich gave a brutally honest reason for ...
25 Apr, 2016
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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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Of All Hillary's Wins Tuesday Night, Missouri is Most Important -- Here's Why
With the vote virtually tied with 99 percent returns, Hillary Clinton is holding the slimmest of leads in Missouri--by about 1,500 votes out of almost 620,000 votes statewide.This is a huge win for Cl ...
16 Mar, 2016
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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 ...
05 Feb, 2016
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Let's Be Honest, Does Voting Even Matter in the Current System?
The first rule of Voting Club is that we do not complain unless we have voted. The second rule of Voting Club IS THAT WE DO NOT COMPLAIN UNLESS WE HAVE VOTED!The cliché saying goes, “If you don’t vote ...
02 Feb, 2016
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OPINION: The Irrationality of Iowa and N.H. Going First in Presidential Elections
NPR and other media outlets have aired interviews with Iowans on why Iowa always gets to go first. Who goes second gets far less coverage, but the same logic presumably applies. If what some Iowans sa ...
01 Feb, 2016
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